Al is an unusual elephant born with the ability to change into different things, including turning into human. His magic tricks helps save other elephants from poachers.
Alice is a young girl who out of curiosity, follows a tourist car and eventually gets lost. She lives in the forest on her own until she is found by kind gorillas.
Winner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2013 Excellence in Craft Award[tab:Description]“You ain’t no damn game warden, are ya?” the poacher snarled. I looked him straight in the eye and lied. “Game warden . . . ? I ain’t no game warden!” The poacher paused, mulling over my answer, and added quietly, “Then why you askin’ so many questions?”Thus begins the story of R. T. Stewart’s career as an undercover wildlife law enforcement officer with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife. For nearly two decades, Stewart infiltrated poaching rings throughout Ohio, the Midwest, and beyond. Poachers Were My Prey chronicles his many exciting undercover adventures, detailing the techniques he used in putting poachers behind bars. It also reveals, for the first time, the secrets employed by undercover wildlife officers in catching the bad guys.Poaching—the illegal taking of wild game—goes on every day in the United States and throughout the world. Millions of dollars change hands annually from the illegal sale or trade of antlers, hides, horns, meat, feathers, fur, teeth, claws, gall bladders, and other wild-animal parts. As a result, wildlife populations suffer— including endangered and threatened species—and legitimate, law-abiding sport hunters get a bad reputation. R. T. Stewart dedicated his professional career to stopping such slaughter by actually living with poachers for months or even years. “In essence, being an undercover officer involves living a lie,” quips Stewart. “You’re always pretending to be someone you’re not.”Undercover law enforcement is dangerous work and, as a result, extremely stressful. Stewart recalls one particular case during which he realized he was too deeply undercover and came close to forgetting his real identity. Many undercover officers have crossed the line to become the very person they initially swore to stop. In Poachers Were My Prey, readers look over R. T. Stewart’s shoulder as he deals with the temptations offered to an undercover officer, including money, sex, and drugs, and watch as he gets the job done and brings the poachers to justice.
Desert Hunters Xuemo Translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Desert Hunters is a great fable written by the author Xuemo . This is what is different from Desert Rites.In Desert Hunters, every section is a vivid scene of life,and every chapter is a grand depiction of the society；It forms an epic historical picture in the whole work .There are more than 50 characters, and depicts more than 20 species of animals in the book features.The stories of the book revolve around a place called the Pig Belly Well.All people and all life in the area, including wolves and sheep, falcons and rabbits, birds and bugs, foxes and rats, rely on this water well for survival. Images of all figures demonstrated fierceness and kindness,suffering and joy, helplessness and endurance,nature and feud, greed and strife.all scenes seem to be distant but familiar, vast but subtle. Every character, every animal seems to be the mouth of God in these book,telling stories about their own transgressions and the following aftermath.Through layers and layers of conflicts between humans and animals, humans and nature, and humans for their own fate,the book tells us that tragedies of humanity are rooted in greed, hatred, and ignorance.Those who transgress, those who break the laws of nature, are bound to be punished, bound to suffer in the dessert of the soul,and bound to become a prey that is being hunted on the hunting field of the soul. It is like the coronavirus spreading around the world,ruthlessly attacking everybody around us,paralyzing industries and forcing countries into long-term lock down, spreading fear and anxiety among all people.However, through the actions of the heroes and heroines, the book also tells us how to create a harmonious conservation between people and their inner selves, between different people, and between human and nature. The following people will like this book: those who love animals and those who wonder about how to create balance between human and nature, how to make a living ,and how to form a harmonious conservation between people’s life and their own inner world .
Never Mashamba’s 12th birthday couldn’t go worse. His father, the scientific genius Dr. Mashamba, is shot and wounded by poachers. But the criminals are really after the hybrid rhino calf Sipho, which his father crossbred against all odds. The Mashambas must flee Zimbabwe for a game farm in South Africa, where Dr Mashamba can recuperate and Sipho can get the care he needs. Never soon realises that Sipho is in danger, but his father doesn’t pay attention to his fears. Who exactly is after Sipho the rhino calf, and why? Can Never trust his new friends, Becks and Dumisani? And what does a mysterious Ganesh pendant — the only thing Never has from his birth family — have to do with all this?
Mother Wolf Gray is one of the animal stories written by Xuemo. It was adapted from a story line about wolves in the novel Desert Hunters. After one of her cubs was mistakenly killed by someone who, ironically, was tasked to stop poachers, the mother wolf named Gray took revenge towards humans, which also set in motion a series of events involving both the poachers and those took the mission to stop the poachers. A game of survival between different groups of humans and different species of animals had thus begun, testing the both the humanity and animal nature of all those that are involved ... The author empploys a number of images in the book ,such as Grassland,Desert Wolf baby,Desolate,Old dog,Pork tripe well,Gun,Hunters,Fighting sheep,Black lamb Jackal son,Crazy Camel,Yellow sheep,Ancient city wall,Sheep eat wolves and so on Filled with both love and suspense, the story is both entertaining and educational, making is an excellent story for children to read.
A girl and a baby. A priest and a poacher. Asavage pursuit trough the landscape of a changing rural England
A river is enraged and Chonglacé has been going up and down the city streets since this morning. The Mink dynasty is coming down from a western Macedonian village. The Indian grandmother Kali can’t stand still in a home where Tupperware is used as an antidepressant. A drunkard carries old ladies on his platform to and fro monastery feasts. A homeless man finds consolation in a toilet flush, while Truman's trench coat becomes three pairs of pants. A Hungarian gypsy tells her story through a Plexiglas screen. Behind this realistic collection lurks a bittersweet smile. Time is a poacher that takes us out of our way, but we find people again.
A solitary farmer, Leo Vialetti lives in a valley in Liguria. He is passionate about olives and graft, but he is also a poacher. And he has an obsession: to buy a crumbling villa that the City will auction in 2024. The owner is a supposedly dead desaparecido called Raul Porti. In 1976, before his disappearance, Raul had been Leo’s tutor and their lessons took place in the same villa that now Leo, almost sixty years old, is willing to purchase.Once he has sold his best piece of land in order to take part of the auction, Leo decides to go looking for Raul in Argentina, and this journey will lead him to discoveries that he never thought possible.
The young and handsome Duke of Barenlock is twenty-seven and is being constantly pestered by his mother and his family to get married. They are not only frightened he will not produce an heir to the Dukedom, but the Castle, one of the most famous in Scotland, is in desperate need of repair. The Duke’s cousin Moira introduces him to an attractive American girl, Mary-Lee, who is an immensely rich heiress. Moira tries to pressure him into proposing to Mary-Lee, but he is idealistic enough to hope that one day he will fall in love with someone who will love him not for his title but for himself. To escape the pressure he goes for a walk by his river, which he shares with his Clans’ arch-enemies, the MacFallins. He sees a poacher in the shape of a young girl fishing his water and he is just about to order her off when she hooks a salmon and he cannot resist netting it for her. It is her first salmon and she is so delighted that he finds it hard to tell her she has no right to it and he then discovers that she, Sheinna, is the daughter of the dreaded Chieftain of the MacFallins. They agree to meet the following morning at the same place and Sheinna tells him that her father is forcing her to marry Sir Ewen Kincard, who is over seventy with a terrible reputation. How the Duke and Sheinna find a way together to resolve their problems and bring their Clans together, and how after severe danger they find real love for themselves is told in this exciting and stirring story of Scotland by BARBARA CARTLAND.
Under the Kilimanjaro, in the holy land of Africa, elephants, lions, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, etc have lived a peaceful life for thousands of years. But today, they are heading towards to their doomsday,Kang Hanwen, heir of an ivory-craving family, chooses to be a war correspondent in Africa. Xue Hao, a graceful, smart girl, in order to relieve from the hurts of last relationship, goes to Africa to conserve elephants as a wildlife patrolman. They meet each other in Africa. Xue Hao asks Kang Hanwen to film a documentary about elephant conservation. Together they fly across the Great Rift Valley, dance around the bonfire on the prairie, experience the thrilling fight between elephants and crocodiles, witness the cruelty of ivory poaching, survive the terrorist attack and rescue the elephant king in danger on their own...Each year in Africa, almost 27,000 elephants are massacred for their ivories. Ivory poaching and the loss and fragmentation of habitats have caused the number of elephants drop by nearly 30%. The writer, Shi Fan, used to be the ambassador of Kenya for 5 years; he has witnessed the ivory poaching in person. The poachers use poisoned arrow, AK47 and even helicopter to poach elephants just for their ivory. Once the female elephant is killed, the baby elephant will be extremely hard to survive for baby elephants under 2 years old are only fed with their mother's breast milk.Based on true incidents such as the killing of elephant king Satao, Cote d'Ivoire civil conflict, Kenya shopping mall attack toll, etc. Elephant Orphan is more like a documentary work. By telling the story of Kang and Xue's love for elephant king's family, their conflicts and fights with poachers and the two protagonists moving love, the writer expresses his call of stopping wildlife poaching and rethinking about the relationship of human and nature.
Coined by English historian Jason W. Moore in 2016, ‘Capitalocene’ might seem a strange word, even though it relates to something very close to all of us: it is the new age that we live in, where it’s not the mankind that affects the world (as according to the anthropocentrism) but the mankind that is affected by the capital.A writer, artist and former companies executive, Silvio Valpreda connects visual language and storytelling, geography and intuition, infographic and artistic intervention in order to investigate our new world of great changes. He takes us amongst lions and poachers in the Serengeti Plain, churches and sheep in Scotland, electric cars and oil wells in Norway, garbage cans and swimming pools in Miami, until we reach the inhabited island of Lavezzi, only to discover that the capital left its mark there as well.
Have you ever heard of a fish named remora, with an oval-shaped sucker on its head? At the very beginning of this book, Boca the remora was caught by fishermen who took advantage its sucker to capture bigger fish. Later, with the help of Frogboy, a 12-year-old boy who was good at diving, Boca restored freedom and agreed to travel around with Frogboy, introducing the underwater world to him. Along their journey, they made lots of friends, learned more about those renowned names, such as sea cucumber and shark, and got themselves familiar with those weird ones, such as lantern fish and sparkler fish. They even had a narrow escape from many dangerous situations. Does mermaid really exist? How Frogboy wielded his wisdom to fight against poachers? Want to know the answers? Join Frogboy and off your underwater adventure.
Do second chances count when it’s your heart that’s on the line?Raymond sold his soul to protect the only woman he’s ever loved. The consequences of his actions leading him down a path of absolute destruction. Mina vowed she’d never love nor need a man ever again. A self-made business success and single mother, her life is up ended when her past returns. Dangerous forces are at play and everyone’s safety is at stake when poachers threaten all she’s worked so hard to achieve, labelling those closest to Mina as suspect.Will Ray truly be able to take the redemption handed to him and make it work, or will Mina lose her heart and possibly her life to the only man she’s ever loved, a second time?
The action begins with a wedding in a chapel beside an African river. Elephants are the proverbial uninvited guests, as are the lions which arrive a little later, while crocodiles lie in wait in the muddy river. Throw in a kidnapping and a courtroom drama and the suspense will keep you turning the pages. The mob are trying to take over, illegally if necessary, a Big 5 Game Reserve near an international border to use as a staging point to smuggle wild animal parts and diamonds out of South Africa and drugs in. Mo and Jack must now do what they do best, and that is put a spoke in the bad guys’ wheel. Jack Delaney and his sidekick, Moses, “Mo”, Dhlamini, prosecute in court both, poachers and smugglers, while in their free moments they track kidnappers and escaped prisoners across the South African bushveldt on the Big 5 Game Reserves. Visits to imprisoned gang Leaders and clashes with mob hit-men are all part of a day’s work.
Mountain Spirit: Book OneBrock Summers is a Colorado Parks and Wildlife Officer with a heart of gold. When he discovers a video of golden eagles being shot and learns of a nest in trouble, not even a blizzard can stop him from trekking up the mountain in an attempt to rescue them.When Brock returns with the one eaglet he manages to save, Landon Weir, the local wildlife rehabilitator, patches up the bird and the injury Brock suffered during the rescue. Though they have been friends and colleagues for years, their shared passion for protecting wildlife and the feeling of Brock’s body under his hands makes Landon see Brock differently. For the first time, Landon wonders if they can be more than friends.To Landon’s surprise, Brock asks him out to dinner to thank him for his aid, but before they manage their first date, another video of eagles being killed surfaces. Neither man will let inclement weather, a dangerous mountain, or armed poachers stop them from rescuing the eagles—or each other. ;
“Parsons and tyrants friends take note. We have born your oppreshuns long enough. We will have our parish rights or else Bloodie Bones will drink your blood.” When Lord Oldfield encloses Barcombe Wood, depriving the people of their ancient rights to gather food and fuel, the villagers retaliate with vandalism, arson and riot. Then Lord Oldfield’s gamekeeper, Josh Castle, is murdered during a poaching raid. Dan Foster, Bow Street Runner and amateur pugilist, is sent to investigate. Dan’s job is to infiltrate the poaching gang and bring the killers to justice. But there’s more to Castle’s death than at first sight appears. What is the secret of the gamekeeper’s past and does it have any connection with his murder? What is Lord Oldfield concealing? And did someone beside the poachers have a reason to want Josh Castle dead? As tensions in Barcombe build to a thrilling climax, Dan will need all his wits and his fighting skills to stay alive and get to the truth.
This beautiful and delicate book recovers one of the best-known stories of our childhood, Little Red Riding Hood, but this time in the setting of North American indigenous cultures. A girl wearing a red poncho visits her grandmother, who lives in the mountain. On her way, she meets the wolf of the forest being hunted by poachers who start a fire in order to catch him and his pack. The grandmother calls forest rangers and they manage to restore calm. The Call is a story based on Little Red Riding Hood, in which elements are given new meanings through the North America experience: for the preservation of the forest and against hunting. The sky roared. The Guardians woke from a deep sleep. The Eagle brought the storm of furious gods. The Great Bear, like a frozen ghost, stroked the injured forest.
The Unicorn Conspiracy It is the early autumn of 1973; the setting for a story of International politics, high finance and personal revenge, triggered by events that took place on the Oman’s high plateau at Jebel Akhtar during a cold January in 1959. Leading to a scenario that could turn out to be the beginnings of World War Three, the action moves quickly through Africa, the Middle East and Europe. One man is tasked to prevent what some would later look back upon as a possible Armageddon. A bitter, exiled religious leader, gaining an increasing Islamic following by the day, has the power to release the might of a cold war Soviet Union on a financially crippled Europe. America is retreating back in to its shell and divorcing itself from any military responsibilities to a recently formed and generally distrusted European Community. Maxwell Armstrong, a man desperately needing to extract himself from the clutches of the British SIS, is the only person who has the ability to communicate with the exiled religious Imam in a determined attempt to call off an inevitable Jihad to be proclaimed against the west. The clock is ticking, but standing firmly in his path are the powerful, ruthless and manipulative members of a secret organization calling itself 'Unicorn'. Seemingly betrayed at every turn, the ruthless British agent desperately attempts to stay one step ahead of the murderous, clandestine society, but will he be in time? This is a thriller to the very bitter end with Maxwell Armstrong following a trail of death, torture and mass destruction: a determined man forced to call upon primitive instincts to survive.
Revolving around a well in the desert, this novel focuses on the dispute between environmental protection and poaching. The main story line is supplemented by a series of daily life situations particular to the desert in the western region. The English edition is translated by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-chun Lin.
