BOOK REVIEW: OPERATION LOCK AND THE WAR ON RHINO POACHING BY JOHN HANKS

By Philip Fourie Penguin Books, 2015 300 pages R250 As Nicky Oppenheimer says in his foreword, ‘This is a timely book’. Given the worldwide focus on rhino poaching, the vast amounts of money and the numbers of people involved, there is no doubt that this appropriately named book is essential reading. However, there is much more to the book than rhino poaching, as anyone interested in nature conservation in all its aspects will agree. In the opening chapter the author mentions two formative events which took place during his last school year in 1961: he…
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