Saving the World's Wildlife

Saving the World's Wildlife
Author: Alexis Schwarzenbach
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781846685309

The lavishly illustrated story of the World Wildlife Fund, the world's largest environmental organization.

Animal Investigators

Animal Investigators
Author: Laurel A. Neme
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2009-04-07
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1416594612

Inside the Clark R. Bavin U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Forensics Laboratory lies a rarely seen world, a CSI for wildlife, where a walk-in freezer contains carcasses and animal parts awaiting necropsies (animal autopsies); shelves and drawers hold pills, rugs, carvings, and countless other products made from parts of endangered animals; and a dedicated group of forensic scientists is responsible for victims from thirty thousand animal species. Accomplished environmental journalist Laurel A. Neme goes behind the scenes at the wildlife forensics lab -- the only crime lab of its kind -- to reveal how its forensic scientists and the agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are working to investigate wildlife crimes, protect endangered species, and stem illegal wildlife trafficking, the third largest illegal trade in the world. In three fascinating cases -- headless walrus washed up on the shores of Alaska, black bears killed for the healing powers of their gallbladders, and gorgeous feathered headdresses secretly shipped to the United States from the Amazon -- Neme traces the USFWS's daring undercover investigations and how the scientists' innovative forensic techniques provide conclusive evidence of a crime. Throughout, she underscores the staggering international scope of the supply and demand for wildlife and animal parts. Filled with the suspense and thrilling detail of a crime novel yet driven by the all-too-real drama of a small band of scientists and investigators battling a lucrative, high-stakes underground industry, Animal Investigators is an engrossing account of crime and cutting-edge science.

Rat Island

Rat Island
Author: William Stolzenburg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2011-06-28
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1608191036

Chronicles the highly controversial practice of rescuing endangered island species by killing their predators, explaining how rats and other animals introduced to the Bering Sea midway by shipwrecks have decimated native bird populations.

Tigers Forever

Tigers Forever
Author: Steve Winter
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2013
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1426212402

A National Geographic photographer embarks on a one-man mission to address the plight of the tiger before it's too late.

The Big Conservation Lie

The Big Conservation Lie
Author: John Mbaria
Publisher: Lens&pens Publishing
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2016-12-11
Genre: Wildlife conservation
ISBN: 9780692787212

The Big Conservation Lie' is a wake up call focused on a field that has been 'front and centre' of many people's hearts and minds in recent years; The conservation of Africa's wildlife. It is a pursuit whose power to inspire is only rivalled by it's ability to blind it's audience to reality. This book takes the reader through Kenya's conservation 'industry' and the players therein with all their prejudices, weaknesses and commitment to causes, many of which are indistinguishable from their personalities. It is a call to indigenous Africans to claim their place at the table where the management of their natural resources is being discussed and invites well-meaning donors to look beyond the romantic images and detect the possible role of their money in the disenfranchisement of a people.

Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves

Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves
Author: Jeff Sebo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2022
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0190861010

In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn, contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering. Jeff Sebo argues that humans have a moral responsibility to include animals in global health and environmental policy. In particular, we should reduce our use of animals as part of our pandemic and climate change mitigation efforts and increase our support for animals as part of our adaptation efforts. Applying and extending frameworks such as One Health and the Green New Deal, Sebo calls for reducing support for factory farming, deforestation, and the wildlife trade; increasing support for humane, healthful, and sustainable alternatives; and considering human and nonhuman needs holistically. Sebo also considers connections with practical issues such as education, employment, social services, and infrastructure, as well as with theoretical issues such as well-being, moral status, political status, and population ethics. In all cases, he shows that these issues are both important and complex, and that we should neither underestimate our responsibilities because of our limitations, nor underestimate our limitations because of our responsibilities. Both an urgent call to action and a survey of what ethical and effective action requires, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves is an invaluable resource for scholars, advocates, policy-makers, and anyone interested in what kind of world we should attempt to build and how.

Animals at the Edge

Animals at the Edge
Author: Marilyn Baillie
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2011
Genre: Endangered species
ISBN: 9781445106939

Join scientists on a journey of discovery to study and protect the world's most extraordinary and endangered animals.

Wildlife and Climate Change

Wildlife and Climate Change
Author: World Book, Inc
Publisher: World Book
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-04-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780716627197

"An exploration of the effect that climate change has had and is having on animals; includes glossary, additional resources, and index"--

Facing Extinction

Facing Extinction
Author: Paul Donald
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013-12-19
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1408189666

Examines extinction in birds, with case studies of critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life

Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life
Author: Edward O. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2016-03-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1631490834

"An audacious and concrete proposal…Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson’s valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." —Jedediah Purdy, New Republic In his most urgent book to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and world-renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson states that in order to stave off the mass extinction of species, including our own, we must move swiftly to preserve the biodiversity of our planet. In this "visionary blueprint for saving the planet" (Stephen Greenblatt), Half-Earth argues that the situation facing us is too large to be solved piecemeal and proposes a solution commensurate with the magnitude of the problem: dedicate fully half the surface of the Earth to nature. Identifying actual regions of the planet that can still be reclaimed—such as the California redwood forest, the Amazon River basin, and grasslands of the Serengeti, among others—Wilson puts aside the prevailing pessimism of our times and "speaks with a humane eloquence which calls to us all" (Oliver Sacks).