The story of Rupert Fothergill, game ranger, leader and reluctant hero of Operation Noah, in a way runs parallel with the history of the first seventeen years of game conservation in the country today known as Zimbabwe. It follows the evolution of the then Game Section of the Department of Mines, Lands and Surveys of the Southern Rhodesia government to what eventually became one of the most effective wildlife bodies in Africa - the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management of Rhodesia. From a lone Game Officer to a staff of hundreds. The effort of today's conservationists have been largely built on the foundation work carried out by a small band of men who got on with the task of organised game conservation many years ago: the early Game Wardens who, even then, never had enough fingers to plug the holes in the dykes trying to keep wildlife from leaking away. The success of Operation Noah was not an easy act to follow. What does a Game Warden do when he has just finished leading the biggest wild animal rescue operation in history? For Rupert it was a return to Salisbury, bureaucracy, and new tasks. There was plenty to he done. The world had heard of Southern Rhodesia and her wildlife. The Game Department evolved, new sanctuaries were promulgated, conservation was a success story. The years following Operation Noah heralded a new era in game conservation. Rupert found that things had changed. It was the time of the academics. the bright new breed of degreed researchers. Doctorates were the order of the day. Fifty-five years old and edging towards the mandatory government retirement age, he was considered by some in the recently melded Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management to be an anachronism, a dinosaur in the fast changing, brave new world. Nevertheless, there were times when the New Order still relied on the Old.
Published	1997
Other information	Second Edition, Includes dustcovers

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