Wildlife at war in Angola: The rise and fall of an African Eden by Brian J. Huntley

ISBN: 9781485306115

Illustrated

Protea Boekhuis, 1 April 2017

Paperback, 416 pages

This book describes in fascinating detail the wildlife, wild places and wild personalities that occupied Angola's conservation landscape through four decades of war and a decade of peace. Intrigues, assassinations, corruption, greed and incompetence ‒ during the colonial era, through the horrific war and most especially throughout the crony-capitalist kleptocracy of President Jose Eduardo dos Santos ‒ have resulted in the extinction of most of its formerly abundant wildlife populations and the decay and erosion of a once endless Eden.