Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
Bobcat
Master of Survival
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2006
Bobcat: Master of Survival tells the story of the most adaptable and resilient wild feline in the world. While half the wild cat species worldwide are in danger, the bobcat is thriving, even expanding its range in North America. Why are bobcats flourishing when so many other wild felines are advancing...
The Windward Road
Adventures of a Naturalist on Remote Caribbean Shores
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
The Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international sea turtle conservation and the establishment of the Caribbean...
Nature's Spectacle
The World's First National Parks and Protected Places
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
National parks have always been an emotive and iconic symbol, ever since the first parks of the modern era were created in the mid-nineteenth century. This book, based on original research, delves deeply into their character and significance, and the larger context in which they developed.
The...
Parks, Peace, and Partnership
Global Initiatives in Transboundary Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2013
Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, and the well-being of people living in and around the protected environs. Historical and geo-political constraints are disappearing in a new spirit of...
by Priscilla Short
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Priscilla Short lived off the grid for a year in a strawbale house in Taos NM with no electricity no running water and a wood burning stove for heat. At the end of the year Short returned home to Denver committed to making a smaller ecological footprint by consuming less and conserving more. In Thrifty...
Wild Forests
Conservation Biology And Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Wild Forests presents a coherreview of the scientific and policy issues surrounding biological diversity in the context of contemporary public forest management. The authors examine past and currpractices of forest managemand provide a comprehensive overview of known and suspected threats to diversity....
Arguments for Protected Areas
Multiple Benefits for Conservation and Use
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Most protected areas (e.g.national parks and nature reserves) have been created to protect wildlife and land- and seascape values. They currently cover over 13% of the world's land surface, around 12% of marine coastal areas and 4% of the marine shelf. Retaining and expanding these areas in the future...
Wild Horses, Wild Wolves
Legends at Risk at the Foot of the Canadian Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Established in 1967, the Ghost River Wilderness Area, located along the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains in southern Alberta, is one of only three provincially designated wilderness areas in the province. As such, it is supposed to have the strictest form of government protection available in...
by Julian Ashbourn
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
In the Shadow of Inspiration is a unique book which draws together many strands in order to embrace concepts such as conservation, natural history, social history and a celebration of Canadian National Parks. In so doing, it revisits the story of Archie Grey Owl Belaney and his essential message and...
Going, Going, Gone
100 animals and plants on the verge of extinction
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
We asked 100 conservation groups around the world: 'if you could pick one species that epitomises your work, which would it be?' From the RSPB to WWF to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, and many, many more, the answers came rolling in. Each provided a synopsis of the threats faced by their selected...
Nature's Restoration
People and Places on the Front Lines of Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Across America and around the world, people are
working to help nature heal itself. In Bermuda, a man
single-handedly grows thousands of trees on a small
island to restore nesting habitat for a rare seabird. In
Illinois, legions of volunteers replant prairies in the...
Political Landscapes
Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Following the 1917 Mexican Revolution inhabitants of the states of Chihuahua and Michoacán received vast tracts of prime timberland as part of Mexico's land redistribution program. Although locals gained possession of the forests, the federal government retained management rights, which created conflict...
Threaded Journeys
Fishing, Hunting, Conservation, Adventure...and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2016
Threaded Journeys is a compilation of fly fishing and bow hunting stories ‘interwoven’ with discussions on various issues regarding conservation, preservation, and healthy living. The author, Tom Johnson, delves into topics about our blue-green planet and its resources that we must preserve. ...
The Annihilation of Nature
Human Extinction of Birds and Mammals
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Gerardo Ceballos, Anne H. Ehrlich, and Paul R. Ehrlich serve as witnesses in this trial of human neglect, where the charge is the massive and escalating assault on living things. Nature is being annihilated, not only because of the human population explosion, but also as a result of massive commercial...