Legendary conservationists show us that we still have the power to prevent critical consequences of the sixth extinction in this game-changing book.
Can we save threatened animals and ecosystems in the midst of a mass extinction? The answer is a resounding yes! Before They Vanish shows us how. ......
Lessons Learned from 50 Years of the Endangered Species Act
A Tale of Two Cranes will serve as a launching pad for better understanding the progress and pitfalls inherent in endangered species management, through 50 years of lessons learned since the landmark Endangered Species Act was enacted by the United States Congress in December 1973
The great auk is gone. The last known individuals were killed on a rocky Icelandic islet in 1844 - and the naturalist who documented this moment of extinction would unknowingly help birth an entirely new concept: that humans could drive a species to oblivion. John Wolley's Garefowl Books presents the remarkable manuscripts produced by ......
The great auk is gone. The last known individuals were killed on a rocky Icelandic islet in 1844 - and the naturalist who documented this moment of extinction would unknowingly help birth an entirely new concept: that humans could drive a species to oblivion. John Wolley's Garefowl Books presents the remarkable manuscripts produced by ......
Winner of the National Christopher Award Winner of the Oregon Book Award From 1970 to 1999 the American peregrine falcon was on the U.S. endangered species list, and many doubted it would survive. Marcy Cottrell Houle was a young woman wildlife biologist observing one of the last remaining pairs--located at an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological ......
Africa's surviving rhinos are under serious threat. Poaching for their horns, massive extermination by 'sports' hunters in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, and progressive habitat loss have all driven black and white rhino close to the edge. This book considers human interactions with these magnificent and enigmatic animals ......
From the carnivorous marsupials such as Thylacoleo and the Tasmanian Tiger to the enormous, lumbering Diprotodons, and their petrifying bird and reptile neighbours, including the terror birds and Megalania lizards, children will discover an exciting host of lost creatures.
An Endangered Bird, Its Unlikely Prey, and a Story of Hope in a Changing World
The unexpected comeback of the endangered Everglade snail kite and what it means for other species facing extinction today
When a bird of prey known as the Everglade snail kite became hard to find in the wetlands of South Florida where it was once abundant, scientist Hilary Flower sought answers, tracking the kite far ......
A collage-style work in fragments, Lynne Huffer's These Survivals brings together philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks to articulate an ethics of living on a devastated planet. Focusing on climate change and mass species extinction, Huffer approaches ruination through assemblages rendered in sharp-edged prose, vibrant color ......
