Penfold: Life and Times of a Professional Hunting Guide From Down Under Tapa dura - 2015

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“Anchorage, Alaska”: Publication Consultants, 4/1/15. First Edition. Hard Cover. Like New/Like New. “In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Australians formed what was known as “”acclimatisation societies”” to “enhance their barren forests” and released red and fallow deer from Europe and sambar and hog deer fromAsia, as well as rabbits, hares, and foxes from various locales. Meanwhile, pigs, camels, horses, donkeys, Asian buffalo, and banteng brought to Australia by farmers and others escaped and reproduced without large predators to control them. The number of feral camels in the Outback, for example, once was estimated to exceed one million and their population was doubling every nine years. Bob Penfold began hunting when there were no closed seasons or limits on most of these “invasive species.” He had been shooting kangaroos and foxes for their skins, and when he learned that buffalo were being shot for human consumption in the Northern Territory, Penfold… Leer más

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