Endangered Animals of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands

Endangered Animals of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands
Author: World Book
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2014
Genre:
ISBN: 9780716629757

Read about Booroolong frogs, speartooth sharks, Tasmanian devils, and many other endangered species in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands. Endangered Animals of the World is a richly illustrated 8-volume series that focuses on endangered and extinct animals throughout different regions of the world. Detailed maps provide visual learners with a reference for each animal's range. Each volume includes a list of recommended books, glossary, and index.

Endangered Animals of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands

Endangered Animals of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2015
Genre: Animals
ISBN: 9780716656234

"Information about some of the more important and interesting endangered animals of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, including the animal's common name, scientific name, and conservation status; also includes a map showing the range of each animal featured; and a glossary, additional resources, and an index"--

Australia and the Pacific

Australia and the Pacific
Author: Malcolm Porter
Publisher: Cherrytree Books
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781842344606

Maps and text provide an introduction to western Australia, Northern Territory, South Australia, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. Suggested level: primary, intermediate,

Endangered Animals of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands

Endangered Animals of Australia, New Zealand, and Pacific Islands
Author: Alfred J. Smuskiewicz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2015
Genre: Endangered species
ISBN: 9780716656203

"Information about some of the more important and interesting endangered animals of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands, including the animal's common name, scientific name, and conservation status; also includes a map showing the range of each animal featured; and a glossary, additional resources, and an index"--

DK Eyewitness Books: Endangered Animals

DK Eyewitness Books: Endangered Animals
Author: Ben Hoare
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 74
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0756676363

Eyewitness Endangered Animals takes a look at creatures around the world that are currently threatened with extinction, along with the ways that we can help them survive.

Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians

Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians
Author: Harold Heatwole
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 363
Release: 2018-06-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1486308406

Amphibians are among the most threatened groups of animals on earth. In part due to their highly permeable skin, amphibians are highly sensitive to environmental changes and pollution and provide an early-warning system of deteriorating environmental conditions. The more we learn about the impact of environmental changes on amphibians, the better we as humans will be able to arrest their demise, and our own. Status of Conservation and Decline of Amphibians brings together the current knowledge on the status of the unique frogs of Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Although geographically proximate, each region presents unique challenges and opportunities in amphibian research and conservation. This book contributes to an understanding of the current conservation status of the amphibians of each region, aims to stimulate research into halting amphibian declines, and provides a better foundation for making conservation decisions. It is an invaluable reference for environmental and governmental agencies, researchers, policy-makers involved with biodiversity conservation, and the interested public.

World Regional Geography

World Regional Geography
Author: Lydia Mihelic Pulsipher
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 706
Release: 2010-12-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1429232412

Like no other textbook, Pulsipher and Pulsipher’s World Regional Geography puts a human face on the study of regional geography, showing how larger geographical forces affect the lives of individuals and communities around the globe. It’s a refreshing, people-centered approach to the subject focusing on the stories of real people, global trends and interregional linkages, and contemporary topics that transcend regional borders (the war on terrorism, global political order, interregional trade, the global economy, popular culture, the environment, and the Internet).

Advances in Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna

Advances in Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna
Author: Doug Armstrong
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2015-05-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1486303021

The publication of Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna nearly 20 years ago introduced the new science of ‘reintroduction biology’. Since then, there have been vast changes in our understanding of the process of reintroductions and other conservation-driven translocations, and corresponding changes in regulatory frameworks governing translocations. Advances in Reintroduction Biology of Australian and New Zealand Fauna is a timely review of our understanding of translocation from an Australasian perspective, ensuring translocation becomes an increasingly effective conservation management strategy in the future. Written by experts, including reintroduction practitioners, researchers and policy makers, the book includes extensive practical advice and example case studies, identifies emerging themes and suggests future directions. Topics include: key questions in reintroduction biology; population establishment; prey naivety; disease management; dispersal; the roles of trials and experiments; modelling projections; assisted colonisation; population interchange; genetic diversity; disease management; metapopulation dynamics; reintroduced species as ecological engineers; the contributions of sanctuary networks and zoos; and extensive insights from reintroduction programs. This book is aimed at conservation practitioners and researchers, as well as conservation management agencies and NGOs. Although it is based on Australasian examples, it will be of interest globally due to synergies with reintroduction programs throughout the world.

Recovering Australian Threatened Species

Recovering Australian Threatened Species
Author: Stephen Garnett
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018-03
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1486307426

Australia’s nature is exceptional, wonderful and important. But much has been lost, and the ongoing existence of many species now hangs by a thread. Against a relentless tide of threats to our biodiversity, many Australians, and government and non-government agencies, have devoted themselves to the challenge of conserving and recovering plant and animal species that now need our help to survive. This dedication has been rewarded with some outstanding and inspiring successes: of extinctions averted, of populations increasing, of communities actively involved in recovery efforts. Recovering Australian Threatened Species showcases successful conservation stories and identifies approaches and implementation methods that have been most effective in recovering threatened species. These diverse accounts – dealing with threatened plants, invertebrates, fish, reptiles, birds and mammals – show that the conservation of threatened species is achievable: that it can be done and should be done. They collectively serve to inform, guide and inspire other conservation efforts. This is a book of hope and inspiration. It shows that with dedication, knowledge and support, we can retain and restore our marvellous natural heritage, and gift to our descendants a world that is as diverse, healthy and beautiful as that which we have inherited.

Our Common Seas

Our Common Seas
Author: Don Hinrichsen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2016-07-22
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134062257

Most of the world's population lives on or near the coasts. Every nation not completely landlocked has used the sea as its supposedly self-cleansing garbage dump. Now the effects are being felt. There is not a coast in the world which is not dangerously polluted. Sewage, oil, plastics, industrial effluents, radioactive waste have been added to ungoverned development, all of which are busily destroying otherwise robust inshore eco-systems. Hinrichsen, basing his work on United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) research and his own extensive travels, has described the situation in the Mediterranean, the Gulf, the Indian Ocean, the South-East Asian Seas and the Eastern Pacific. He covers both the disasters and the growing successes in dealing with them, and he points the way to the sort of international deal needed to rescue a vast resource in danger of complete destruction. His book is both a call to action and a sign of hope. Originally published in 1990