Poached

BY RACHEL LOVE NUWER, SCRIBE, £16.99

‘Can we stop it?’ Journalist Rachel Love Nuwer asks the head of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Africa programme, Timothy Tear, in Poached: Inside the dark world of wildlife trafficking. The problem, he replies, is you need to stop the killing, the trafficking and the demand all at once. “If you don’t, it turns into a ‘war on drugs-type situation’.” In a whirlwind tour of these three separate aspects of the illegal wildlife trade, Nuwer takes the reader from watching ivory burn in Kenya to releasing pangolins in Vietnam. This is a vital book at a time when the world’s wildlife is in crisis – it may not have too many answers, but asks plenty of searching questions. James Fair Environmental journalist