Giant Sable, Academy of Natural Sciences; graphite on paper 1999, by John Walker

Giant Sable, Academy of Natural Sciences; graphite on paper. By John FredericWalker, 1999

Journalist, conservationist and artist John Frederick Walker recently tracked giant sables in Cangandala Park with Pedro Vaz Pinto and biologist Richard Estes. He has written about his experiences in the May/June 2009 issue of Wildlife Conservation magazine.

Click here to download a PDF of Mr. Walker’s 3-page article, titled, “Icon on the Brink: Angola’s Giant Sable Antelope”. This article is reproduced with permission of the author, all rights reserved.

Mr. Walker is the author of A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola (Grove Press, 2004). His latest book is Ivory’s Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009). Find out more about Mr. Walker at http://johnfrederickwalker.com/.