Author Glen Martin was just interviewed on Australian ABC Radio National about his 'controversial' new book Game Changer: Animal Rights and the Fate of Africa's Wildlife

From Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Game-Changer-Animal-Africas-Wildlife/dp/0520266269
Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing?

In Game Changer, award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa's megafauna.

Martin assesses the rising influence of the animal rights movement and finds that the policies championed by animal welfare groups could lead paradoxically to the elimination of the very species--including elephants and lions--that are the most cherished.

In his anecdotal and highly engaging style, Martin takes readers to the heart of the conflict. He revisits the debate between conservationists, who believe that people whose lives are directly impacted by the creation of national parks and preserves should be compensated, versus those who believe that restrictive protection that forbids hunting is the most effective way to conserve wildlife and habitats.

Focusing on the different approaches taken by Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia, Martin vividly shows how the world's last great populations of wildlife have become the hostages in a fight between those who love animals and those who would save them.

The interviewer Geraldine Doogue, was for once, reasonably neutral in her demeanour:
Download podcast here:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/game-changer/4230960

I had to laugh... the 20 min segment was broadcast at 8:05am today, at 8:25:08 the first incandescent Vegan posted her predictable anti-human Anthropomorphic rant:

This guy Glen Martin is making me angry. How dare he say that one life is more important than another. Perhaps he needs to have a little chat with the Dalai Lama. Why are we completely ignorning the one thing that will stop elephants from eating in cornfields, or lions eating sheep etc. Do something about the burgeoning human population on this planet. We are intruding into the habitat of other species with our urban and industrial sprawl and greed for oil etc. We all have to live on this planet so how about we learn to share with other species? It is sheer arrogance to say the human species is superior to other life just because we happen to be a part of that species. We are the highest polluters, rampant breeders, the most self centered, anthropocentric and destructive of them all. How dare he say 'there is no alternative' but to kill elephants! Expect to hear more from my animal welfare groups on this one.