African Wildlife & Environment Issue 81

SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW

Production approaches Montane to Mangrove has been cleverly designed by Karl and Lesley Lane of Hamilton-Fynch Publishing in Nelspruit, South Africa, as an attractive resource for both researchers and managers by juxta- positioning text with photographic images and/or illustrations and by providing detailed contents information of all the book’s sections and sub-sections. Ken Tinley’s use of beautifully executed, finely detailed, hand- drawn maps, diagrams and graphs (88 in all) are a source of interest and exploration. (On their own, I

Ken Tinley and his wife Lynne during a visit to Gorongosa in 2020

flew over the Park and ‘discovered’ Gorongosa for himself Entranced by the beauty of the area and

would say, ideal as reference material for round- table discussions by anyone with an interest in

recognising that the Park had potential for both conservation and ecotourism in a desperately poor area, he established the Gorongosa Restoration Project and in a public-private partnership with the Government of Mozambique pledged more than $100 million over 35 years to restore and protect the park's biodiversity, and to assist communities living adjacent to the park with health care, education and agriculture.

The publication of Montane to Mangrove Ken Tinley’s 1977 DSc thesis had provided a benchmark approach to ecological understandings for both environmental managers as well as for researchers, but it wasn’t until 2005 that it was ‘discovered’ by Greg Carr. He immediately recognised its potential as a handbook for the managers of the park and, after tracking Ken down in Australia, the two collaborated to produce a more accessible version of the work. Greg Carr’s Foundation provided the funds for the project and Montane to Mangrove was published in 2020 with a print run of 500.

The meetings of the minds. Ken Tinley and Greg Carr finally meet at Chitengo, Gorongosa. October 2010

Gorongosa’s ecology.) Drawn in the main by Ken himself, their meticulous execution with finely shown detailed information is well-illustrated by Figure 1,3 of his thesis: ‘Salient Feature Landscape’. It has been included here because it illustrates, not only the precise details of Ken’s work but because it presents a visual overview summary of his holistic approach to his ecological writings.

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