1964-1966 flood rescue data suggests there were never as many jaguars in Suriname as World Animal Protection claims have been poached PARAMARIBO, Suriname––Claims recently amplified on social media about the alleged extent of jaguar poaching in Suriname appear to have inflated at most a handful of rare, scattered incidents occurring over many years into a […]
Time Is Short And The Water Rises
by John Walsh with Robert Gannon (E.P. Dutton & Co., 1967. 224 pages, hardcover.) Reviewed by Merritt Clifton One can still find battered copies of Time Is Short And The Water Rises through online book search services, often selling for less than the orignal cover price of $6.95, plus postage. My copy was discarded years […]
The biggest animal rescue in 10,000 years
Little noticed Operation Noah inspired Operation Gwamba Before there was Operation Gwamba, documented by John Walsh and Robert Gannon in Time Is Short And The Water Rises, there was Operation Noah, a five-year rescue begun in 1958 by Rhodesian chief ranger Rupert Fothergill. Fothergill, then 46, began relocating animals from the Zambezi Valley to Matsudona […]