Book Number: 5 706

Rabinowitz, Alan

CHASING THE DRAGON'S TAIL, THE STRUGGLE TO SAVE THAILAND'S WILD CATS

The author was hired by the Thai Government to study leopards, tigers, and other wildlife in the Huai Kha Khaeng valley-one of Southeast Asia's largest and most prized forests. It was hoped his research would help protect the many species that live in this fragile reserve, which was being slowly decimated by poachers, drug traffickers, and even the native tribes of the area. He discovers many contradictions in the “land of smiles.” Despite the Buddhist aversion to killing, Bangkok is the largest center for illegal wildlife trade in the world. Even more disheartening is the discovery that the very government employees who hired Rabinowitz to protect the forest routinely aid in its destruction. A book on Thai Wildlife and about problems a foreigner encounters in Thailand.

(New York 1991)

270 pp., 16 pp. illus., 163 x 247 mm

25.- US-Dollar

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