supporting rural, often poor communities to benefit, rather than suffer burdens from wildlife conservation.  Each book describe what it is like to be at the very forefront of practical conservation, from saving tree snails in French Polynesia, to avoiding charging hippos in North Cameroon or the poachers' bullets.  He has been arrested, robbed,  stranded, had his life threatened, and been offered bribes to look the other way (which he didn't take).  Along his journeys, Neil has encountered all four species of great apes, taken part in the reintroduction of species classified as 'Extinct in the Wild', tracked giraffe across the savannahs, pursued forest mammals, birds and reptiles in the most remote of locations, and even found a new species of stick insect in a montane forest in the Philippines.  Neil writes with passion about a subject he loves, and raises questions about how Man acts towards the natural world.  Above all else, he ponders how the modern day conservationist can make a meaningful difference in a world that seems to value material goods above everything else.

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The stories give hard facts about what it means to commit to wildlife conservation, and the pressure that the natural world faces from Man, but the stories are interlaced with humour and a deep understanding that whilst people are most often the problem, they are also most often the solution.

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We hope you enjoy the books.