Volume 41, Number 6 · March 24, 1994
Of Ivory and the Survival of Elephants
By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife
by Raymond Bonner
Knopf, 322 pp., $24.00
Battle for the Elephants
by Iain Douglas-Hamilton, by Oria Douglas-Hamilton, edited by Brian Jackman
Viking, 368 pp., $35.00
The Fate of the Elephant
by Douglas H. Chadwick
Sierra Club Books, 492 pp., $25.00
The Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation Without Illusion
by Jonathan S. Adams, by Thomas O. McShane
Norton, 266 pp., $21.95
Elephant: The Animal and its Ivory in African Culture
edited by Doran H. Ross
Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA, 413 pp., $39.99 (paper)
In Communist China the ownership of dogs is illegal. Enforcing the law are the Dog Police who shoulder their way into homes where a dog is suspected, find the dog if one is present, cram it into a canvas bag which they have brought for the purpose, and in front of the owners and also the neighbors they club the dog to death.
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