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Author Béchard, Deni Ellis, 1974-

Title Empty hands, open arms : the race to save bonobos in the Congo and make conservation go viral / Deni Béchard.

Publication Info. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2013.
©2013

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  599.885 B38    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  599.885 BECHARD    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xi, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-326).
Contents Part I. From Iowa to the bonobos of Équateur. Naked apes, furry apes, godlike apes ; Kinshasa ; Équateur ; Mbandaka to Djolu ; A sense of place ; The bonobos of Kokolopori ; Yetee -- Part II. Grass roots. Albert Lotana Lokasola ; From slave state to failed state ; Sally Jewell Coxe ; Africa's great war ; Michael Hurley ; Economics around the campfire ; Human cultures and cultured animals ; Territory and power -- Part III. Sankuru. André Tusumba ; Defending the vocation ; Viral conservation ; The river -- Epilogue : the red queen.
Subject Bonobo -- Conservation -- Social aspects -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Bonobo -- Conservation -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Citizen participation.
Wildlife conservation -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
Endangered species -- Congo (Democratic Republic)
ISBN 1571313400
9781571313409
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