Saving the Whooping Crane

Saving the Whooping Crane
Author: Susan E. Goodman
Publisher: Millbrook Press
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0822567482

Describes efforts by scientists to reestablish a whooping crane flock that would spend summers in Wisconsin and winters in Florida.

North American Rodents

North American Rodents
Author: David J. Hafner
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1998
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9782831704630

The first comprehensive treatment of North American rodents of conservation concern. This action plan summarizes the rodent fauna of North America and provides available information on every rodent taxon that has been considered to be of conservation concern by state, provincial and private conservation agencies and regional experts. It is hoped that the survey provided in this action plan will serve as a common ground for all these parties in drawing up conservation strategies for rodents.

1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals

1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals
Author: Ulf Gärdenfors
Publisher: IUCN
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1996
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9782831703350

The 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals was a major advance on its predecessors in clarity of layout and amount of information presented. This is taken further in the 1996 edition, which is also the first global compilation to use the complete new IUCN Red List category system.