Bring ’em Back Alive 409 models have been emulated around the world. But he too, came under scrutiny for his portrayals of Africans, and even some of his most benevolent practices have been abused. For example, the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s red list to protect endangered species pertains only to animals in the wild, not those in various forms of captivity, giving rise to an underground economy of wild animal farms to harvest body parts. Buck and Durrell’s animal capture narratives remain important landmarks in the evolving British and American perspectives on human-wildlife relations, providing a historical context for how those relations were once perceived, and consequently impact the directions in which they now go.
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