The Last Rhinos, Graham Spence
The Last Rhinos, Graham Spence
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The Last Rhinos
My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures

Author: Graham Spence, Lawrence Anthony

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 9 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/07/2013


Synopsis

When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest land mammal since the woolly mammoth to go extinct. In The Last Rhinos, Anthony recounts his attempts to save these remarkable animals.

The demand for rhino horns in the Far East has turned poaching into a dangerous black market that threatens the lives of not just these rare beasts, but also the rangers who protect them.

The northern white rhino's last refuge was in an area controlled by the infamous Lord's Resistance Army, one of the most vicious rebel groups in the world. In the face of unmoving government bureaucracy, Anthony made a perilous journey deep into the jungle to try to find and convince them to help save the rhino.

An inspiring story of conservation in the face of brutal war and bureaucratic quagmires, The Last Rhinos will move animal lovers everywhere.

About Graham Spence

Graham Spence is the author of The Apocalypse Chase and coauthor, with Lawrence Anthony, of The Last Rhinos, The Elephant Whisperer, and Babylon's Ark.


Reviews

Goodreads review by A.E.

Spoiler Alert: Human beings aren't able to get their acts together, and the Northern white rhino goes extinct. Unless drastic changes happen soon, the Southern white rhino and the black rhino will suffer the same end. [URL not allowed]......more

As soon as I finished The Elephant Whisperer, I began eagerly awaiting The Last Rhinos. Then, when Lawrence Anthony passed away in March, my waiting became bittersweet. I knew that this would be the last time I would get to enjoy a new book by one of my favorite conservationists. I expected that The......more

What happened should never have happened. Conservationist Lawrence Anthony has written a memoir centered around his extraordinary efforts to save the last northern white rhinos in the wild from extinction. Look at the website of the African Parks, an NGO tasked with oversight of African wildlife par......more

The Last Rhinos goes far beyond a story about rhinos. Lawrence Anthony, in his attempt to stop the northern white rhinos from going extinct, finds himself as an unlikely go-between trying to stop a war that has been raging in Africa for decades. The local government and the Lord's Resistance Army (o......more