Birder’s Conservation Handbook
100 North American Birds at Risk
by Jeffery V. Wells
Published by Princeton University Press
Birds
are natural barometers to the health of
ecosystems and their conservation and
awareness of their status is vitally
important. North America has lost too many
species of birds this century and there are
many that sit on the brink of extinction,
critically endangered. Birder’s Conservation
Handbook - 100 North American Birds at Risk by
Jeffery V. Wells and published by Princeton
University Press is a fantastic effort in
chronically these species and highlighting the
steps needed to conserve and repair their
status.
This book is incredibly well researched and
filled with useful and important information
that well help raise awareness to the
conservation plight of these species as well
as help spread information regarding possible
solutions to these problems. . Birder’s
Conservation Handbook - 100 North American
Birds at Risk by Jeffery V. Wells and
published by Princeton University Press is an
important and timely book and should be in
every North American birders home library
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Marine Protected Areas for Whales, Dolphins and
Porpoises
by Erich Hoyt (2005 Earthscan,
London).
Erich Hoyt provides a comprehensive
update on the reasons why Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are long
overdue, why whales, dolphins and porpoises make good umbrellas species
for marine conservation, provides guidance on how to establish MPAs
and lists the exisiting and proposed MPAs around the world. There
are 534 exisiting and proposed MPAs in 102 countries worldwide. In an
easy-to-read style, Hoyt presents the first world-wide review of
a technical topic. In doing so, he has brought the plight of marine
mammal conservation to a new level. Ecobeetle recommends this book for
anyone intersted in marine conservation and a 'must' for anyone working
in marine conservation.
Wolves:
Behaviour, Ecology and Conservation
by L. David Mech and Luigi Boitani
Published by
University of Chicago Press
So many books have been written on the wolf that there seemed little more
that could be written. However, Wolves is an extraordinary treatise
of up-to-date information that reveals that so much more has been learned
about these creatures. Twenty-two specialists with a combined 350 person
years of experience, set the task of compiling much of what is now known
about wolves into one book. They review topics of social ecology,
behaviour, communication, carnivory, predation, population dynamics,
physiology, genetics, evolution, restoration and conservation, among other
topics. Especially interesting was the debate on whether the red wolf in
eastern USA should be considered a full species or a hybrid cross between
gray wolf and coyote. Coyote genes are present in many of the recent red
wolves but none prior to 1944. There were 100 wild-born red wolves in 20
packs by 2002. The story reveals how much has been learned from this
experience into the logistics and politics of returning animals to the
wild. Although this is a scholarly text, the passion held by each of the
scientists for this creature of wilderness emerges in each chapter.
by Bill Schneider
The Globe Pequot Press
There are scores of books on the biology
of bears but Where the Grizzly Walks is the only book entirely
devoted to bear preservation. The reader meets the characters known as the
'bear people' who have devoted their lives preserving and restoring bears in
the USA. Originally published in 1977, Schneider has updated this book with
new information. There is some good news in the pages of bear preservation.
The view of bears has changed over the years from eliminating a ferocious
beast to saving the remnants of a symbol of wilderness. But bear preservation
is not out of the woods. Anyone interested in bear conservation and its
history in the USA will find this book a good read.
Cradle to Cradle
:
Remaking the Way We Make Things
by
William McDonough and Micheal Braungart
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Larding the Lean Earth : Soil and Society in Nineteenth Century
America
by Steven Stoll
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