One More Elephant: The Fight to Save Wildlife in Uganda [Hardcover]

Richard Sobol (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up

A moving text and evocative photographs eloquently capture the struggle of two brothers, Peter and William Moeller, to save the rapidly diminishing herds of elephants and other wildlife living in the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Grade 4-6?A heartening account of a major conservation effort at Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda that will be useful for environmental studies. Sobol tells in a clear but dry manner how German brothers Peter and Wilhelm Moeller began efforts to save the African elephant from extinction in 1986 after traveling to Uganda to film wildlife. The results of their work are encouraging: the elephant population has grown from 180 to 400, the new Department of Wildlife and Tourism has been formed, and hippopotamus and antelope herds are increasing as well. Two pages of facts about elephants appear at the book's end. The author's full-color photographs, though informative, are disappointing?they're not nearly as dramatic as those in his Seal Journey (Cobblehill, 1993). Nevertheless, readers will find the Moellers' successes inspiring.?Kathleen McCabe, East Meadow Public Library, NY
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Gr. 4-6. Grabbing readers' attention with intriguing facts about elephants, Sobol expands his topic, directing youngsters to the cause of preserving the native environments of all African animals. The book highlights the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, where political unrest had bred illegal hunting that nearly annihilated the elephant population. This slight volume'sÿ20accessible text and crisply focused photographs document how Queen Elizabeth Park was slowly restored, an effort that surely will appeal to ecology-minded readers. Ellen Mandel

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Cobblehill Books (February 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0525651799
• ISBN-13: 978-0525651796
• Product Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 20 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,174,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Saving an African National Park, November 8, 2011

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Nicola Manning (Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: One More Elephant: The Fight to Save Wildlife in Uganda (Hardcover)

Reason for Reading: I am reading Richard Sobol's entire backlist with my son and discussing the life of a photographer/photojournalist as a career option while doing so.

This book is dated, being over fifteen years old in the telling of its story but it was a captivating story at that. My ds was extremely full of questions and it got to the point where I had to make him promise to wait until I had finished a page before he started in with the questions! This tells the story of the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda, Africa just after the rule of Idi Amin. It very (very) briefly mentions the civil wars and the affect on the people but then focuses on how the park and its wildlife were destroyed by militia camps and poachers during those ten years. Then the book tells the story of how they started to put the National Park back together again, focusing on the elephants who took a devastating hit in numbers, and the poachers who killed them for their tusks alone, as well as poaching in general. We learn about the rangers, how they survived on the park and were now ragtag barefoot poachers themselves with no equipment to properly look after the park, we learn of the donations from people all over the world of heavy duty trucks to bring food and clothes to the rangers and their families, the new training they received and the all-out national campaign to end poaching through tough laws and public education. Then we watch as the park begins to recover. As I said, the book is dated as it states near the the end, "This is a beginning. It is still too soon to know if the elephants will survive here." One can easily visit the Queen Elizabeth National Park's website to see that it is a flourishing game reserve and noted to be Uganda's "most visited". As I write about Sobol's books I can only feel redundant when I keep saying the photography is fantastic, wonderful and really makes the book.