Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Social and Economic Benefits of Protected Areas
An Assessment Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Protected areas (PAs) contain biodiversity and ecosystems of high conservation value. In addition, these areas provide a range of benefits, both direct and indirect, to our societies and economies, i.e. so called ecosystem services. These services include, for example, an ecosystem's ability to...
by B. W. Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
For seventy years, The Natural Gardens of North Carolina has been a must-read volume for anyone interested in wildflowers, native plants, ecology, or conservation in the state. This handsome revised edition features new line drawings and color photographs, an appendix that updates the botanical nomenclature,...
Faunal Heritage of Rajasthan, India
Conservation and Management of Vertebrates
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
This is the first ever monumental and scientific documentation of the faunal wealth of the Indian Desert state of Rajasthan. This volume, the second of two, provides a comprehensive picture of the conservation efforts undertaken to prevent further degradation of the condition of Rajasthan’s faunal...
Indian Biodiversity for the Present Millennium
Global Prospectus And Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006
India and adjoining countries with diversity of people, culture and livelihoods are endowed with rich biological diversity and genetic resources. The country in the past millennium contributed immensely towards the development of bio-resource and the management of environment for the welfare of the...
Wyoming Mountains & Home-waters
Family, Fly Fishing, and Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2017
From the heart of Yellowstone to the wilderness of the Bighorn Mountains, grizzly bears, wolves, and majestic trout all wait to be discovered in WYOMING MOUNTAINS AND HOME-WATERS. Explore the wild treasures of Wyoming’s rugged lands and remote streams with Bradley Johnson, author and ecologist and...
A Chorus of Cranes
The Cranes of North America and the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
“Since long before medieval times cranes have been considered messengers of the gods, calling annually from on high to remind humans below of the passing years and of their own mortality. Now it is up to humans to take responsibility for controlling our own fate—and also to cry out to protect...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on how high altitude affects the behavior, ecology, evolution and conservation status of primates, especially in comparison to lowland populations. Historically, the majority of primate studies have focused on lowland populations....
Understanding Invasive Species in the Galapagos Islands
From the Molecular to the Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
This book investigates the introduction of invasive species and their behavior in oceanic islands. How can we define invasive species? What is their history? How did they come to dominate and transform ecosystems? These are relevant questions when trying to understand the behavior of invasive species—primarily...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Not everybody cares about the fate of wild animals or the state of the natural environment. I met a lady who said it wouldn't worry her if all the wild animals in the world disappeared overnight. She was a city person~ she said. There are also people who would prefer to let animals become extinct...
Ecosystem Management
Adaptive, Community-Based Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Today's natural resource managers must be able to navigate among the complicated interactions and conflicting interests of diverse stakeholders and decisionmakers. Technical and scientific knowledge, though necessary, are not sufficient. Science is merely one componin a multifaceted world of decision...
The Barbary Macaque
A Case Study in Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Barbary macaque (all too often mistakenly called an ape) was first brought to the attention of the Conservation Working Party of the Primate Society of Great Britain late 1979 when John Fa reported that 'surplus' animals were being sent from Gibraltar to dubious locations, such as an Italian safari...
Creative Conservation
Interactive management of wild and captive animals
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Past progress and future challenges R.J. Wheater Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. In the past two decades much has been achieved in the sphere of breeding endangered species, and we should be pleased that our co operative efforts have already borne so much fruit. However, on...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
This book presents some results on selected taxa in the Himalayan region (mainly Nepal), pinpoints the threats to their survival and suggests ways how to avoid their extinction. Most chapters are based on graduate research projects – relatively long-term field studies. The data presented here can...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Get Everything You Need To Know To Get Started With Helping The Earth And Conserving Energy! Is the fact that you would like to learn how to conserve energy and help out Mother Earth but just don't know how to get started making you feel really bad... maybe you have even thought about just giving...