Vorwort
An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking - the poachers, the traders, and the customers - and of those fighting against it.

Autorentext

Rachel Love Nuwer is an award-winning science journalist who regularly contributes to The New York Times, National Geographic, BBC Future, and Scientific American, among others. She lives in New York.

Klappentext

The dark world of wildlife trafficking is exposed in this timely piece of investigative journalism comparable in scope to "Narcoland"'s exploration of the drug market.

Zusammenfassung

An intrepid investigation of the criminal world of wildlife trafficking the poachers, the traders, and the customers and of those fighting against it.

Journalist Rachel Love Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. Our insatiable demand for animals for jewellery, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Illegal wildlife trade now ranks among the largest contraband industries in the world, yet compared to drug, arms, or human trafficking, the wildlife crisis has received scant attention and support, leaving it up to passionate individuals fighting on the ground to try to ensure that elephants, tigers, rhinos, and more are still around for future generations.

Poached takes readers to the front lines of the trade: to killing fields in Africa, traditional-medicine black markets in China, and wild-meat restaurants in Vietnam. Through exhaustive first-hand reporting that took her to ten countries, Nuwer explores the forces currently driving demand for animals and their parts; the toll that demand is extracting on species across the planet; and the conservationists, rangers, and activists who are working to stop the impending extinctions people who believe this is a battle that can be won, that our animals are not beyond salvation.