SHAPING KRUGER, animal behaviour, ecology and management in Africa's premier game park

208pp., colour illus., map, paperback, Cape Town, 2012

Former ranger Mitch Reardon on the lives, habits and behaviour of the larger animals that significantly affect the workings of the Kruger National Park, and how park management has to interpret, monitor and adapt the processes that allow species to survive in an ever-changing environment.

Mitch Reardon worked as a ranger in South Africa and Namibia before becoming a wildlife photographer and writer. He has produced six books, including the Etosha: Life and death on an African plain and has also written for Australian Geographic.