DURING the Vietnam war, an American officer told a reporter his troops had to destroy a village in order to save it. In Game Changer, journalist Glen Martin makes much the same claim about lions, elephants and other endangered African wildlife: we cannot hope to conserve them unless we are prepared to kill some of them.
“We cannot hope to conserve Africa’s wild animals unless we are ready to kill some of them”
Through a series of visits with game managers and conservation biologists in Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia, he builds a convincing case. Left unchecked, for example, elephants destroy…
