Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
The Bottlenose Dolphin
Biology and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
The Bottlenose Dolphin presents for the first time a comprehensive, colorfully illustrated, and concise overview of a species that has fascinated humans for at least 3,000 years.
After reviewing historical myths and legends of the dolphin back to the ancient Greeks and discussing current human...
Last Animals at the Zoo
How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In Last Animals at the Zoo, Colin Tudge argues that zoos have become an essential part of modern conservation strategy, and that the only real hope for saving many endangered species is through creative use of zoos in combination with restoration of natural habitats. From the genetics of captive breeding...
Food from the Radical Center
Healing Our Land and Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
"Informational and inspirational."—Booklist
America has never felt more divided. But in the midst of all the acrimony comes one of the most promising movements in our country's history. People of all races, faiths, and political persuasions are coming together to restore America's...
by Mario Kawayawaya
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
It may seem arrogant, or even offensive, for one who has travelled my journey wanting to write about his experiences.
I gained notoriety as a poacher in the lower Zambezi Valley of Zambia during the early 1990s. In those days they called me first, ‘The Leopard’, or sometimes, ‘The King...
The Return of the Unicorns
The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003
Beginning in 1984, Eric Dinerstein led a team directly responsible for the recovery of the greater one-horned rhinoceros in the Royal Chitwan National Park in Nepal, where the population had once declined to as few as 100 rhinos. The Return of the Unicorns is an account of what it takes to save endangered...
by David Blakesley, Peter Buckley
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Following the destruction of 95% of meadows during the twentieth century, there is an urgent need to understand what little unspoiled habitat remains in order to plan the management and restoration of existing sites, as well as re-creating future grassland habitats. This book is a much-needed guide...
The inland water fishes of Africa
Diversity, ecology and human use
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
The equilibrium of inland hydrosystems is presently a cause for concern, with species extinction rates there estimated to be 5 times higher than for terrestrial fauna in the 21st century. Urgent measures must be taken to conserve these ecosystems particularly with regard to fishes, which represent...
Biodiversity and Ecological Economics
Participatory Approaches to Resource Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
It is vital that we adopt interdisciplinary approaches such as ecological economics to gain an understanding of the values that determine human interaction with, and use and abuse of, the environment. This book is a model of applied ecological economics. It presents an accessible introduction to the...
by John Schelhas
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
"While tropical forests are being cleared at an alarming rate, the clearing is rarely complete and is often not permanent. A considerable amount of tropical forest exists as remnants that have significant value both for the conservation of biological diversity and for meeting the needs of local people.This...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
This book provides both the conceptual basis and technological tools that are necessary to identify and solve problems related to biodiversity governance. The authors discuss intriguing evolutionary questions, which involve the sometimes surprising adaptive capacity of certain organisms to dwell in...
by Paul A. Johnsgard
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Paul Johnsgard, one of the world's leading ornithologists, has written this book as a call to action. Conservationists have seen a marked decline in the populations of North American grouse, particularly the grassland-adapted species. Unless action is taken swiftly, at least one species -- Attwater's...
by Ravinder Choudhary
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2008
It is estimated that up to 100,000 plants, representing more than one third of all the world's plant species, are currently threatened or face extinction in the wild. Preservation of the plant biodiversity is essential for classical and modern genetic engineering plant breeding programmes.
The Kruger Experience
Ecology And ManagemOf Savanna Heterogeneity
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
The Kruger Experience is an invaluable new resource for scientists and managers involved with large, conserved ecosystems as well as for conservation practitioners and others with interests in adaptive management, the societal context of conservation, links between research and managemin parks, and parks/academic partnerships.
Indians, Markets, and Rainforests
Theoretical, Comparative, and Quantitative Explorations in the Neotropics
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This book addresses two important and related questions: does participation in a market economy help or hurt indigenous peoples and how does it affect the conservation of tropical rainforest flora and fauna? Oddly, there have been few quantitative studies that have addressed these issues.
Ricardo...