Wildlife the South African Way

By Andre Wessels

Wildlife The South African Way takes the reader on a journey through the wildlife found in South Africa, including the big five. The book highlights unique characteristics of each individual animal. Weve got them from the king of jungle with its fierce mane to the tallest of them all. The fastest predator meets its match against the well-known Springbok. The majority of photographs of animals displayed in this book were taken in their natural habitats. Join us through the journey of learning exciting facts and having the opportunity of meeting each animal up close through our rare and exquisite photography.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Aug 29, 2013
• ISBN: 9781483682679

Andre Wessels

I was introduced to caring and loving animals from a young age where my family works in different branch’s of nature. I decided to pursue my passion and interest for animals in the art of photography. I have travelled thousands of miles to observe animals in their natural habitats and capture these timeless moments. I brought out this book to show that animals all have their own beautiful characteristics and to try stop people from harming and poaching our heritage that can’t be replaced when gone...

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Copyright © 2013 by Andre Wessels. 306454-WESS

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-4836-8266-2

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Rev. date: 08/28/2013

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South Africa is one of the countries who are blessed with a wide variety of wildlife. The organisation Sanparks are running most of the national parks. South Africa has a wide variety of game farms, game reserves and zoo’s. A recent threat came to the wildlife, not only in South Africa, but to all countries housing wildlife with the export of ivory and rhino horns. Ivory was put on the list of banned produce and offenders will be heavily punished. The fight against poachers is a very real problem. On average four rhinos get killed every day in South Africa for their horns. These horns get their way to the East where medicines for erectile dysfunction are made from these horns. There is no scientific proof that these medicines actually are working, at this stage these rhinos are paying with their lives for an ancient myth. Black rhinos are already on the endangered species list and the