PositiveFinancial Times\"... meticulous and ambitious ... Nuwer’s net is necessarily wide, drawing in species from rhinos, to wildcats, to bears harvested for bile, to rare reptiles captured by ravenous collectors. The statistics can be numbing: from 2007 to 2014, 30 per cent of the remaining savannah elephants disappeared, slaughtered for their ivory. Only about 415,000 remain today ... Nuwer’s book is both an intrepid first-person investigation and a detailed economic study. The tension between these two approaches can feel meandering. Still, there are a few glimmers of hope, in the guise of the conservationists and journalists who work so that endangered animals can be preserved before they, too, are fated to become the stuff of legend.\
