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t at I rea ise ow ma ma e
OBITUARY
wildli e photographers have
1941-2018 nspire me to get out in t e
eld, as there is only a small
he wildli e conservation hand ul o emale photographers
world lost one o the leadin that I ollow on some social
esearchers into the lobal ivor edia plat orms. I am very keen
and rhino horn trades in early to represent mysel as a woman
e ruary t is year,tragica y who is success ul in this eld
ur in is m in air i n to et ou er enerations
ntereste in nature p otograp y.
ett urin an apparent robber This e -o ni A has
Esmond and his wife Chryssee
huan Yeh/AFP/ worked as a team in the 1960s ydia Pin old, via email
a e me want to
rsue m
ream even more
and 1970s,researching the
aritime trade in the Indian
smond Martin: Tao cean which culminated in the Feline nd
Cargoes of the East ater,
In April last year, my wi e and I
ey pu is e severa oo s
an pamp ets to et er on
US, staying at a villa on a sports
the histories of eastern African were on o ay in Sout Caro ina,
wahili towns at ivory an r ino orn were up t e ivory. ese etai e o lex on Kiawah Island. One
n 1967,the Martins moved to increasing y entering t e tra e tudi s th s al and xt nt venin a ter a drink we returned
airo i,w ere t entertaine ains e een stu in . e f the ivor markets inAfrica, to the villa in darkness and
academics conservationists arried over the quantitative Asia and beyond woke the world t ere on t e porc was a re axe
wildli e o icials and politicians. mt s t at a n up to the act that the trade ban un male bobcat elo with a
nyone of interest would receive sing or carpets and mangrove introduced by the Convention on squirrel in its mouth!
an invitation to inner,w ere o es to tus s an r ino orns nternationa ra e in n an ere quickly dashed upstairs to get
smond would pick their brains n 1 he and I launched Species was not working camera, and was amazed tha
ver a sumptuous mea a series o regional ivory trade is ntri uti n t ur when I returned, it had hardl
Esmond began ocusing studies,the irst o which was understanding o illegal wildli e oved! I reported the si htin
n wildlife trade in the late uis e in BB Wildlif wit ra e as een immense,an is to the Kiawah Biological Station
s when he discovered he appropriate headline ‘Adding oss immeasurable.Dan tiles the followin da , who said tha
bobcats are wide read on the
sland but ver difficult to see

Ma in t e ri t c oic some bene t to our health must was invo ve wit , u unti
The majori o conservation be made . st about eve is untime eat in 12
messages in t e me ia sa chordate and man invertebrates wit Captain Scott.
t at we s ou e promoting also have swimbladders albei ean Gi y, Mi ese
io iversity an saving not a double one.
en angere species ecause it is mmanuel Fardoulis, Australia a ance reporti
good or our wellbeing and has BC Wildli e is an exce en
multiple economic bene ts. u ication wit so muc
Howeve we must not ose eplies: The totoaba is in the
si t o the undamental reason same family as a Chinese fish ot oo news, an t e
otecti t e wor ’s tru species known as the bahaba, ot so oo news.
amazing wildli e is simply the which was originally exploited nvaria y pu ications Stephen had a
ri t t in to o. We ave t e for the supposed medicinal value an rtra the world close encounter
creativi an t e inte i nce of its swim bladder. However, n a er ect light bu with a bobcat.
to turn the current tide o this has been overfished and is his magazine strikes a
mass extinctions ut o we as considered Critically Endangered alance. By highlighting
in ivi ua s an as a society, ave by the IUCN. Today, totoaba where action is needed o n I was in ee very uc y.
the belie and conviction? is regarded as an effective oncern felt the reader T e encounter tru y ma e my
Martin Holley, via email replacement for the bahaba. as invaluable insight to o i ay – not even a coup e
el determine an o inion birds on the adjoining gol
Vanis in vaquita r
W are we osin t e va ita t orou e e ‘Antarctic ike Lee West Midland St en De en am, via emai
or the sake o the totoaba etc oo ’ S e Per ins in
swim a er (Agen a, Decem e e Decem er 2017 issue. I ave a ollowin my dream rr
20 )? For man ars in uman co o wa W so s tarc c wante to s are t o ts O eor ontagu was eorgian, not
Victorian Hidden Britain, March 201 .
istor C ina a no now e ge Note oo s w ic I wou n th l k f f m l il lif
o Mexico’s existence, let alone ecommen to BC Wildli oto rap ers Be on t e
eadlines, March 2018 . It QUIZ ANSWERS see 111
belie , that its swimbladder is ketches o the expeditions n’t nti I r t i rti sar : , A, 3A, 4B, 5B,
pril 201 BB Wildlife 5