arvellous holiday experiences while growing up made Conraad de Rosner respect the bushveld as “nature’s cathedral”. When wildlife poaching boomed before his written with Elaine Bell and Graham Spence is his memoir of fighting back using specially trained dogs to help track poachers, their loot and their weapons. Poaching doesn’t exist in a vacuum, he stresses, as he finds himself in a web of crime from rampant bushmeat trading (he declares tolerance for subsistence hunting) to farm murders. His tone is both gung-ho and vehement, but the cost is clearly high: one ‘soulmate’ relationship lost, death threats and attacks and injuries, and nearly 20 ‘fallen heroes’ – dogs lost in action.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Apr 26, 2024
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