nanoboy
Well-Known Member
I saw a copy of this book on a table in the office recently, and immediately ordered my own copy. Of course, the book had to be shipped from overseas, and took more than a month to get to Melbourne. 
Anyway, has anyone else read this book? I am finding the photographs to be gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.
"With more than 100 powerful color and b&w photos, this at once eye-opening and deeply disturbing book is an urgent call to action. Davies, a Bangkok-based journalist, describes the plight of various disappearing Asian species, including tigers, bears and leopards in Thailand; pythons and other snakes in Vietnam; and Sumatran orangutans. Davies points to traditional beliefs in the healing powers of animal parts as a major driving force of the market, and takes the reader through several poaching scenarios to illuminate how the animal trade actually works. Some of the photos in the book are not for the faint-of-heart (severed tiger heads, bear paws, pickled snakes, etc.), but the book sheds light on a shadowy, often illegal set of practices."
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Black-Market-Inside-Endangered-Species/dp/1932771220]Amazon.com: Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia (9781932771220): Ben Davies, Patrick Brown, Jane Goodall: Books[/ame]
Anyway, has anyone else read this book? I am finding the photographs to be gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.
"With more than 100 powerful color and b&w photos, this at once eye-opening and deeply disturbing book is an urgent call to action. Davies, a Bangkok-based journalist, describes the plight of various disappearing Asian species, including tigers, bears and leopards in Thailand; pythons and other snakes in Vietnam; and Sumatran orangutans. Davies points to traditional beliefs in the healing powers of animal parts as a major driving force of the market, and takes the reader through several poaching scenarios to illuminate how the animal trade actually works. Some of the photos in the book are not for the faint-of-heart (severed tiger heads, bear paws, pickled snakes, etc.), but the book sheds light on a shadowy, often illegal set of practices."
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Black-Market-Inside-Endangered-Species/dp/1932771220]Amazon.com: Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia (9781932771220): Ben Davies, Patrick Brown, Jane Goodall: Books[/ame]