Environmental Conservation Protection category: 3266 books
Plant Invasions in Protected Areas
Patterns, Problems and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
This book is the first comprehensive global review of all aspects of alien plant invasions in protected areas. It provides insights into advances in invasion ecology emanating from work in protected areas, and the link to locally relevant management support for protected areas. The book provides in-depth...
Marine Protected Areas
Principles and techniques for management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Marine protected areas (MPAs) have an important role in marine conserva tion programmes around the world. Although most have been established relatively recently when compared with protected areas on land, there is considerable expertise on their identification, setting up and management. Some techniques...
by Altafhusain Nadaf, Rahul Zanan
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
Indian screw pine family Pandanaceae represents three genera, in which genus Pandanus and Benstonea are distributed in two hotspots in India – the Western Ghats and the Northeast Himalayan region. For the first time, Indian Pandanaceae has been assessed for its taxonomic status and phylogenetic...
by Tim R. New
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
The book introduces basic entomology, emphasising perspectives on insect diversity important in conservation assessment and setting priorities for management, as a foundation for managers and others without entomological training or background. It bridges the gap between photographic essays on insect...
The Future Has Other Plans
Planning Holistically to Conserve Natural and Cultural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Crisis has enveloped the more than 200,000 nationally and regionally protected natural and cultural heritage sites around the world. Heritage managers – those who manage natural sites such as national parks, wilderness areas, and biosphere reserves, as well as those who manage cultural sites including...
A Practical Guide To Modern Gamekeeping
Essential information for part-time and professional gamekeepers
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book is a comprehensive gamekeeping manual for those enthusiastic amateurs who spend their spare time running a small DIY syndicate shoot, and for those who are professionally employed on a full-time basis. It shows the reader how to perform all the tasks required of the modern gamekeeper, including...
by Mitch Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
After centuries of relative isolation, the Karoo – South Africa’s parched heartland – is a latecomer to the tourist industry. What was once viewed as a harsh and desolate place of limited attraction is rapidly gaining popularity with visitors who now make the Karoo their destination, keen to...
Hunt Me Not
Poaching Grounds
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Africa’s heritage is on the brink of extinction and unlike past mass extinctions, caused by other factors, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us — humans. Wildlife is being slaughtered on an industrial scale driven by human greed and ignorance.
However, it is clear that poaching...
Revolution on the Range
The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In the final decade of the twentieth century, the American West was at war. Battle lines had hardened, with environmentalists squarely on one side of the fence, and ranchers on the other. By the mid-1990s, debates over the region’s damaged land had devolved into political wrangling, bitter lawsuits,...
Cave Biology
Life in Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Biospeleology, the study of organisms that live in caves, has a tremendous potential to inform many aspects of modern biology; yet this area of knowledge remains largely anchored in neo-Lamarckian views of the natural world in both its approaches and jargon. Written for graduate students and academic...
Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem
Impact and Management of Invasive Alien Species in the Bonin Islands
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Loss of biodiversity on tropical and subtropical oceanic islands is one of the most pressing conservation issues. These oceanic islands are well known for their unique fauna and ? ora, which evolved over long periods in isolation from external perturbation. However, the maj- ity of these islands in...
Capybara
Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The capybara is the neotropical mammal with the highest potential for production and domestication. Amongst the favorable characteristics for domestication we can list its high prolificacy, rapid growth rate, a herbivorous diet, social behavior and relative tameness. The genus (with only two species)...
Good Dirt
Confessions of a Conservationist
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The best-selling conservation classic, completely expanded, revised, and updated
David Morine was a briefcase conservationist specializing in human nature. During his fifteen years in charge of land acquisition for The Nature Conservancy, Morine helped protect more than three million acres...
Changing Parks
The History, Future and Cultural Context of Parks and Heritage Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1998
This important book is a must for everyone concerned with the heritage and future of Canada's parks. Contributors include an impressive assembly of noted park experts ranging from academic authorities and government parks personnel to concerned nonpolitical park supporters. Since the establishment...