Planet Elephant
A Story of Family, Love and the Global Wildlife Trade
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2013
Summary
From the jungles of Borneo, to the civil strife of Assam, to the black markets of Vietnam, Dr. Tammie Matson continues her quest to help reduce the human-elephant conflict around the world. In this follow-up to her bestselling memoir Elephant Dance, Tammie takes on the black markets of Asia, determined to make a difference and break the chains of rhino-horn poaching and the illegal ivory trade.
Travelling from her new home in Singapore throughout South-East Asia, she meets pr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742612072 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1742612075 |
| Author: | Tammie Matson |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Macmillan Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2013 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 154mm x 235mm |
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Tammie Matson
Tammie Matson is an Australian wildlife conservationist with a grand passion for Africa and all its wildlife, especially elephants. She worked for many years in southern Africa, before becoming the head of WWF Australia’s species program in 2007, and a voice for threatened species worldwide. Having worked on human-elephant conflict in Namibia and India, she moved to Singapore in 2012 where she is working on reducing the illegal trade in ivory and rhino horn that is decimating Africa’s elephants and rhinos. She divides her time between being a mum to her son, lecturing in the environmental sciences, and undertaking freelance conservation work in Africa and Asia.
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