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A Hunter's Guide to Aging Lions in Eastern and Southern Africa
By Karyl L. Whitman and Craig Packer

Safari hunting is an important tool for the conservation of the African lion. In particular, the funds generated by carefully regulated lion hunting help to alleviate the primary threats to the survival of the species, including poaching and habitat loss.

However, biologists have determined that lion hunting is sustainable only when harvest is restricted to mature male lions six years of age or older. To help hunters and guides accurately estimate the age of lions in the field, Conservation Force recently published A Hunter's Guide to Aging Lions in Eastern and Southern Africa, available from Safari Press. This guide is a crucial tool for anyone contemplating a lion hunt and is also a fascinating reference for anyone interested in lion conservation.

Months of the Sun:
Forty years of elephant hunting in the Zambezi Valley
By Ian Nyschens

Here's an unusual book for those interested in Africa the way it used to be--wild, hazardous, and unvarnished. Months of the Sun is a memoir by the notorious elephant-poacher-turned-game-warden Ian Nyschens (pronounced "nations") about his hunts in Rhodesia in the 1940s and 1950s. His elephant hunts were conducted in thick, nearly impenetrable jess, far more dangerous conditions than those of most of the other well-known elephant hunters of the twentieth century, and Nyschens was an irascible loner who was as tough and unapologetic as the unforgiving land he explores.

Nyschens died on December 6, 2006, at the age of eighty-three, just as this brand-new reprint of his Months of the Sun became available to hunters who are interested in his fascinating life in the African bush.

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