Saving the Last Rhinos

BY GRANT FOWLDS AND GRAHAM SPENCE, LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP, £18.99

Saving the Last Rhinos is the story of one man’s extraordinary, sometimes rambling, often alarming, journey from trading goats to setting up a nature reserve on the family’s South African farm and becoming a campaigner against the illegal trade in rhino horn. Along the way, he becomes embroiled with efforts to free the animals in a wildlife and safari park once owned by President Mobutu, and gets scammed by a US environmental activist over efforts to translocate 80 elephants from a reserve close to the border with Botswana.

James Fair Environmental journalist