My emotional range for this book was “kinda bored to extreme sadness to an existential crisis”. Genki Kawamura’s If Cats Disappeared from the World is a story of loss and reconciliation, of one man’s journey to discover what really matters in modern life. īecause how do you decide what makes life worth living? How do you separate out what you can do without from what you hold dear? In dealing with the Devil our narrator will take himself – and his beloved cat – to the brink. But before he can set about tackling his bucket list, the Devil appears with a special offer: in exchange for making one thing in the world disappear, he can have one extra day of life. Estranged from his family, living alone with only his cat Cabbage for company, he was unprepared for the doctor’s diagnosis that he has only months to live. Lion, and you can watch him test out his own boma-of-sorts as he spends the night with a pride.Author: Genki Kawamura, translated by Eric Selland
“That’s a game we very likely might lose.” (Smith is also host of Big Cat Week’s Man v. “It’s much better to make a difference now, in lion conservation, for example, than to play catch-up like we are with tigers,” says wildlife biologist Boone Smith. Though lions are under serious threat-they’ve lost 80 percent of their historic range, and populations are just 15 percent of what they were a century ago-projects like Build a Boma are making crucial strides toward saving the species. (This holiday season, instead of getting your dad more ties he’ll hate, why not build a boma in his name?) One boma costs $500 to build and $25 a year to maintain but is proven to reduce tensions between humans and lions. A boma is a lion-proof enclosure for livestock made out of thorny acacia trees and chain-link fencing. That’s why the Big Cats Initiative has invested in the Build a Boma project. “What’s generally known but not officially communicated is the single-largest cause of lion loss,” says Dollar, “is retaliatory killing for lost livestock.”
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