Veterinarian's Guide to Wildlife Conservation: Saving Animals & Protecting Nature | Ideal for Vet Students, Animal Lovers & Eco-Activists

Author: Patterson, Larry

Memoirs

Published on 28 April 2022 by The Book Guild Ltd in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 368 pages
157 x 233 x 32 | 630g

Pursuing a dream instilled by early David Attenborough television adventures, a young man from the industrial northwest of England is advised at school to become a veterinary surgeon as a first step towards a career working with wild animals in Africa.

His misgivings about the values and justification of domestic veterinary practice are contrasted with a passion for wilderness and wildlife conservation. Early experiences in the vivid Uganda of Idi Amin are juxtaposed with life in a grey Pennines veterinary practice.

Eventually arriving as a veterinary officer in newly independent Botswana he finds adventure with wild animals as a veterinarian and later as an ecologist, survey pilot, game capture operator and even a safari hunter, becoming a passionate conservationist... all while starting the first veterinary practice in the country.