Jaguar: One Man's Struggle To Establish The World's First Jaguar Preserve | Alan Rabinowitz

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	Jaguar: One Man's Struggle To Establish The World's First Jaguar Preserve Alan Rabinowitz Island Press, 2000 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 14 reviews view larger image
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No yawns in this field journal

This book is a record of Alan's efforts to set aside land for the jaguar in Belize. It is also a breath-taking, hair-raising, heart-breaking roller coaster ride through the ups and downs in the daily life of a field research biologist. His narrow escapes leave you gasping. You have to lay the book down and sob when he cradles a dying jaguar in his arms. The scenes in this book play over and over in your mind as clearly as if you had seen it in a movie, as when a he has to escape from a jaguar which unexpectedly charges him after recovering from the tranquilizeer he had injected. He is as macho as they come and yet he is not afraid to admit to moments of bias, of ignorance, of impatience and frustration, of fear, or of failure. He incorporates the scientific data he collects along with cultural observations of the Maya people he works with. His brushes with the supernatural are surprising, coming from a scientist, and yet in keeping with his open minded nature.

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The ability to change the world we live in to the betterment of others--human or otherwise--is something many of us aspire toward. Mr. Rabinowitz accomplishes this very goal in this wonderfully told account of how he initiated the creation of a far-reaching preserve for predatory jungle cats. Mr. Rabinowtiz seems to understand that human destiny is linked to our compassion for our fellow species. His struggle to prevail over government red tape, self-interested forest wardens and even the near-sighted needs of indigenous peoples is told here with great compassion and drama. The author's ability to criticize his own shortcomings and self-doubts lends this work its true strength and gives the reader insight into how we might all try to do better and work for good in our lives.

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It read's like a thriller but tell's us about reality.

Rabonowitz succeeds in telling us in a gripping, dramatic and humurous way how to take care about our most sacred treasure: our nature and al what's still living in it. His struggle against red tape, changing habits of people shows us what's realy worth investing in. In this case the preservation of the jaguar in central america. His writing is so powerfull that the 'innocent' reader want's to go there and help him. If all people would read this book, it would make a change in really taking care of our nature.

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