London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs. "Saltmarshes are often remote, inhospitable places, neither land nor sea, as hard to pin down as they are to navigate. In this saline odyssey, Clive Chatters has explored his favourite creeks, pools and mudflats to bring us an absorbing celebration of the..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Octavo, text illustrations, fine copy dustwrapper. Clark first describes and analyzes efforts to restore the black-footed ferret after 1981 and looks at the processes, people, institutions, and programs that were involved in the endevour. Clark then looks at fresh approaches to endangered species recovery..... More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2020. Octavo, paperback, Emergencies test governments, organisations and individuals. Although Australia's prompt, science-led response to COVID-19 has not been perfect, it has saved tens of thousands of lives. But for decades, governments have ignored, ridiculed or understated the advice of scientists on the climate emergency. Now, in..... More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2014. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs. WAS $40. Sustainable Futures explores the links between population growth, diminishing resources and environmental challenges, and what they mean for Australia's future. Written by leaders in their fields, and based on presentations from the 2013 Fenner Conference on 'Population..... More
Oakland: University of California Press, 2016. Quarto, laminated boards, photographs, tables, maps. This book provides a much needed practical step-by-step guide to successfully planning, implementing, and evaluating the re-establishment of animal populations in former habitats or their introduction in new environments. In each chapter, experts in reintroduction biology outline a...... More
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2017. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs and illustrations. Journey through the digestive systems of humans, farm and wild animals, and meet some of nature's ultimate recyclers as they eat, breed in and compete for dung. The fall of bodily waste onto the ground is the start..... More
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2021. Octavo, laminated boards, colour illustrations, maps. Biological control has been implemented for millennia, initially practised by growers moving beneficial species from one local area to another. Today, biological control has evolved into a formal science that provides ecosystem services to protect the environment and the resources..... More
London: Earthscan Publications, 2011. Octavo, photographs, maps, fine copy in dustwrapper. Addresses the broader context of invasive and exotic species, in terms of the perceived threats and environmental concerns which surround alien species and ecological invasions. Including a wide range of case studies from around the world, this book raises..... More
New York: Norton, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. History is not a prerogative of the human species, Edward O. Wilson declares in Half-Earth. Demonstrating that we blindly ignore the histories of millions of other species, Wilson warns us that a point of no return is imminent. Refusing to..... More