Environmental Conservation category: 3266 books
A Practical Guide To Modern Gamekeeping
Essential information for part-time and professional gamekeepers
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This book is a comprehensive gamekeeping manual for those enthusiastic amateurs who spend their spare time running a small DIY syndicate shoot, and for those who are professionally employed on a full-time basis. It shows the reader how to perform all the tasks required of the modern gamekeeper, including...
by Mitch Reardon
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
After centuries of relative isolation, the Karoo – South Africa’s parched heartland – is a latecomer to the tourist industry. What was once viewed as a harsh and desolate place of limited attraction is rapidly gaining popularity with visitors who now make the Karoo their destination, keen to...
Le prochain virage
Propulser le Québec vers un avenir équitable et durable
Language: French
Release Date: March 11, 2014
La crise environnementale et énergétique actuelle est l’occasion pour le Québec de revoir ses valeurs. Sur quel type d’économie allons-nous baser notre avenir ? Quelles seront nos orientations énergétiques ? Comment optimiserons-nous l’occupation de notre territoire ? Manquerons-nous de...
Hunt Me Not
Poaching Grounds
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Africa’s heritage is on the brink of extinction and unlike past mass extinctions, caused by other factors, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us — humans. Wildlife is being slaughtered on an industrial scale driven by human greed and ignorance.
However, it is clear that poaching...
Revolution on the Range
The Rise of a New Ranch in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In the final decade of the twentieth century, the American West was at war. Battle lines had hardened, with environmentalists squarely on one side of the fence, and ranchers on the other. By the mid-1990s, debates over the region’s damaged land had devolved into political wrangling, bitter lawsuits,...
Cave Biology
Life in Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Biospeleology, the study of organisms that live in caves, has a tremendous potential to inform many aspects of modern biology; yet this area of knowledge remains largely anchored in neo-Lamarckian views of the natural world in both its approaches and jargon. Written for graduate students and academic...
Restoring the Oceanic Island Ecosystem
Impact and Management of Invasive Alien Species in the Bonin Islands
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Loss of biodiversity on tropical and subtropical oceanic islands is one of the most pressing conservation issues. These oceanic islands are well known for their unique fauna and ? ora, which evolved over long periods in isolation from external perturbation. However, the maj- ity of these islands in...
Capybara
Biology, Use and Conservation of an Exceptional Neotropical Species
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
The capybara is the neotropical mammal with the highest potential for production and domestication. Amongst the favorable characteristics for domestication we can list its high prolificacy, rapid growth rate, a herbivorous diet, social behavior and relative tameness. The genus (with only two species)...
Good Dirt
Confessions of a Conservationist
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
The best-selling conservation classic, completely expanded, revised, and updated
David Morine was a briefcase conservationist specializing in human nature. During his fifteen years in charge of land acquisition for The Nature Conservancy, Morine helped protect more than three million acres...
Changing Parks
The History, Future and Cultural Context of Parks and Heritage Landscapes
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1998
This important book is a must for everyone concerned with the heritage and future of Canada's parks. Contributors include an impressive assembly of noted park experts ranging from academic authorities and government parks personnel to concerned nonpolitical park supporters. Since the establishment...
Heathlands
Patterns and Processes in a Changing Environment
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Increased atmospheric nitrogen deposition and changes in the management of heathlands have caused a significant change in the species composition of the NW-European heathlands. This change from ericaceous towards gramineous dominance is analysed in detail in Heathlands: Patterns and Processes in a...
Biodiversity, Access and Benefit-Sharing
Global Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
The Nagoya Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is rapidly receiving signatures and ratifications. Many countries are preparing to implement the protocol through national research permit systems and/or biodiversity laws. Yet there is still considerable confusion about how to implement...
The Road to El Cielo
Mexico's Forest in the Clouds
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Hidden high in the Sierra de Guatemala mountain range of northeastern Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas is the northernmost tropical cloud forest of the Western Hemisphere. Within its humid oak-sweetgum woodlands, tropical and temperate species of plants and animals mingle in rare diversity, creating...
Life on the Edge
Tristan Voorspuy's Fatal Love of Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Once described by the actress, Joanna Lumley, as 'the man with no fear', Tristan Voorspuy spent his whole life living up to the legend. Early stints in Northern Ireland and Germany with the Blues and Royals regiment were but a precursor to a life defined by his love of Africa, a life cut tragically...