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Rewilding Africa: Restoring the Wilderness on a War-ravaged Continent

by Grant Fowlds & Graham Spence, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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Repairing damaged ecosystems and turning cultivated land into Wildlife reserves sounds like an idealistic endeavour, but only a few pages into this book you'll realise it's anything but. This is the second team effort by conservationist Grant Fowlds and writer Graham Spence – their first book together was Saving the Last Rhinos, published in 2019.

is all about Fowlds's mission to establish wilderness areas and protect endangered species in places like South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, the DRC – even in Saudi Arabia. The authors don't shy away from the challenges they face in conservation, like poaching, politics, conflict with

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