Elephant Man: The great Ivory Hunters of days past (Swemmer Jason)(Paperback)

With the possible exception of the whale, no other animal evokes as much emotion as the elephant, certainly when the subject of hunting them is brought up. But, as is so often the case when human emotions are used instead of common sense, the truth isn't quite so black and white. The elephant has described a path through history, much of which has run alongside that of that other intelligent mammal, the primate. As terrestrial contemporaries, it was inevitable that our paths would cross often and not always peacefully. Most elephants now survive in nature reserves but this in itself is unnatural as the old routes are cut off, and the situation has created two major problems. One, elephants are a force of nature, and after man have the ability to alter their environment more than any other land animal. They decimate an enclosed area, turning forest to grassland, and with
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