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Article: On African Wildlife Management.
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- Animals
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- November 1, 1998
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Botswana's Okavango Delta, an oasis in the Kalahari Desert, first became commonly known to American readers with Mark and Delia Owens's work, Cry of the Kalahari. The oasis was then safe haven for many living things and was featured in the film The Gods Must Be Crazy.
Now the newly released Life in the Balance: Humanity and the Biodiversity Crisis (Princeton University Press, $24.95) brings Americans up to date on the Okavango--and the news isn't good. Its author, Niles Eldredge, a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, calls the delta "one of the last Edens on earth." Unless things change, he says, we're destroying our last Eden as surely as Genesis ...