HAVE THE CONSERVATIONISTS GONE TOO FAR.
This conservation lark is now getting to be something of a joke, with all the materials that we gardeners have grown up with, snatched from under our noses by bureaucrats that continue to destroy the atmosphere and deplete the ozone layer in ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Dr. Franklin's Island
In addition to writing children's books, Ann Halam writes adult science fiction and fantasy books under the name Gwyneth Jones. Semi, Miranda, and Arnie are part of a group of 50 British Young Conservationists on their way to a wildlife ... [... more]
Random House |
Sandra Pobst
Animals on the Edge aligns young readers with scientists, conservationists, and educators who are committed to the preservation of animals around the world. The informed and educational narrative examines numerous threats to animals in the wild, ... [... more]
Random House |
Louis S. Warren
Louis S. Warren is W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America, which won the Western Heritage ... [... more]
Random House |
Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is one of the world's leading conservationists. The author of many books, including the New York Times bestseller, Reason for Hope, she is renowned for her work with the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania, as well as for ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Primate Taxonomy
 An authoritative treatment.: Extensive taxonomic revisions are usually published in monographic series by natural history museums, distributed to a handful of academic institutions the world over, and relegated to shelves in the bowels of libraries where [... more]
CDN$85.95
Amazon CA |
The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the ...
From Amazon.com: In the hearts of the elaborate Renaissance gardens of Italy, writes essayist John Hanson Mitchell, lie small patches of untended ground, overgrown with moss and tangled undergrowth, called boscos. These wild patches are there to remind [... more]
CDN$22.95
Amazon CA |
White Hunters: The Golden Age Of African Safaris
From Amazon.com: A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites: a land largely unmapped, sparsely settled by Europeans, and teeming with wildlife--from elephants to wildebeest, bongos to rhinos, and all manner of scarifying [... more]
CDN$23.00
Amazon CA |
The Trees in the Suburbs around Perth, Western Australia
This piece describes a few of the trees to be found in the suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. I suppose because of, or perhaps in spite of, the arguments between conservationists and the loggers in the South West of Western Australia my mind ... [... more]
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Monarchs' Winter Habitat Loss Looms in Mexico!
Conservationists and monarch experts recently warned of a critical crisis facing monarch butterflies. Research over a 28-year study period shows that degradation of vital conserved areas of forests in Mexico, where monarchs have overwintered for ... [... more]
Suite101 |
The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in ...
From Amazon.com: Ask any resident of a rural area about hunting season in their community and you're sure to get their favorite stories: the malamute that was mistaken for a wolf and shot by that fellow from New York, or the guy driving back to Boston [... more]
CDN$20.84
Amazon CA |
Working with Wildlife
Working with Wildlife Charts an Exciting Career Course!: When young people begin to explore careers in the world of wildlife, this might be the best primer available. In Maynard's first step into exploring an exciting career working with wildlife, he has [... more]
CDN$37.00
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