Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Evolution and Innovation in Wildlife Conservation
Parks and Game Ranches to Transfrontier Conservation Areas
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The crucible of innovation in wildlife and habitat conservation is in southern Africa where it has co-evolved with decolonization, political transformation and the rise of development, ownership, management and livelihood debates. Charting this innovation, early chapters deal with the traditional...
Wild Horses, Wild Wolves
Legends at Risk at the Foot of the Canadian Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Established in 1967, the Ghost River Wilderness Area, located along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in southern Alberta, is one of only three provincially designated wilderness areas in the province. As such, it is supposed to have the strictest form of government protection available in...
by Ellen E. Wohl
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Island of Grass tells the story of the Cathy Fromme Prairie Natural Area, a 240-acre preserve surrounded by housing developments in Fort Collins, Colorado. This small grassland is a remnant of the once-vast prairies of the West that early European explorers and settlers described as seas of grass.Agricultural...
New Deal, New Landscape
The Civilian Conservation Corps and South Carolina's State Parks
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Tara Mitchell Mielnik fills a significant gap in the history of the New Deal South by examining the lives of the men of South Carolina's Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) who from 1933 to 1942 built sixteen state parks, all of which still exist today. Enhanced with revealing interviews with former...
Scarlet Experiment
Birds and Humans in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Emily Dickinson’s poem “Split the Lark” refers to the “scarlet experiment” by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn more about it. Indeed, humans have killed hundreds of millions of birds—for science, fashion, curiosity, and myriad other reasons. In the United States alone,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Forest wildlife conservation is critically required in many parts of the world today. This book presents a merger between the elements of wildlife conservation and habitat conservation, and explains how these disciplines can be used to promote the conservation of vertebrates in forests around the world.
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
The history of interest and practice in insect conservation is summarised and traced through contributions from many of the leaders in the discipline, to provide the first broad global account of how insects have become incorporated into considerations of conservation. The essays collectively cover...
Asian Sacred Natural Sites
Philosophy and practice in protected areas and conservation
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Nature conservation planning tends to be driven by models based on Western norms and science, but these may not represent the cultural, philosophical and religious contexts of much of Asia. This book provides a new perspective on the topic of sacred natural sites and cultural heritage by linking Asian...
by Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2016
This overview of the roles of alien species in insect conservation brings together information, evidence and examples from many parts of the world to illustrate their impacts (often severe, but in many cases poorly understood and unpredictable) as one of the primary drivers of species declines,...
by Donald P.A. Sands, Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
This survey of one the longest insect conservation campaigns in Australia deals with recovery of one of the most iconic endemic butterflies, the Richmond birdwing, threatened by clearance and fragmentation of subtropical rainforest in eastern Australia and the spread of an alien larval food-plant....
Plant Identification
Creating User-Friendly Field Guides for Biodiversity Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
An important prerequisite for successful conservation is a good understanding of what we seek to conserve. Nowhere is this more the case than in the fight to protect plant biodiversity, which is threatened by human activity in many regions worldwide. This book is written in the belief that tools that...
Biodiversity and Conservation
Characterization and Utilization of Plants, Microbes and Natural Resources for Sustainable Development and Ecosystem Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
This volume provides an enlightening and pragmatic approach to preserving biological diversity by gathering a wide range of peer-reviewed scientific content from biodiversity researchers and conservators from around the world. It brings comprehensive knowledge and information on the present status...
by Ross Slater, Douglas Wight
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
It's 8am, it's freezing cold and I'm about to dump a lorry load of coal on the doorstep of the Prime Minister. Just a typical day in the life of an activist for Greenpeace, the world's biggest and best-known environmental campaigners. They're hoping I'll help them score massive publicity coup - one...
The Wilderness Warrior
Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2009
From New York Times bestselling historian Douglas Brinkley comes a sweeping historical narrative and eye-opening look at the pioneering environmental policies of President Theodore Roosevelt, avid bird-watcher, naturalist, and the founding father of America’s conservation movement.
In this...