Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 1996. Octavo, paperback, maps, graphs. Examines the roles of science in resource management and policy making. More about The future of tropical savannas: an Australian perspective
Gland: Cemex/IUCN, 2001. Large quarto, 256 colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This publication combines awe-inspiring imagery with soild science and factual accounts. Drawing on the 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species, the world's most objective and authoritative inventory of species at risk of extinction, it describes the extinction... More about The Red Book: the extinction crisis face to face
London: Angus and Robertson, (1984. reprint). Octavo, photographs, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. Australian Natural Science Library. Every farmer should have a copy. More about Wildlife in the home paddock: nature conservation for Australian farmers
London: Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2014. Quarto, black and white photographs, bumped corners, publisher's cloth. Published to coincide with the Global Summit on illegal wildlife trade hosted by David Cameron in London in February 2014, Trading to Extinction is a unique and devastating record of this tragic industry. The book explores... More about Trading to extinction
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. Octavo, publisher's cloth, colour photographs. WAS $68. In this breathtakingly lovely book, Burt selects ninety of his most striking photographs. He also offers his reflections on the marshes he has visited, inviting his readers to come with him and become acquainted with this hidden... More about Marshes: the disappearing Edens
London: Hutchinson, (1974. first edition). Octavo, photographs, signature, dustwrapper. More about Wandering lands and animals
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. Octavo, paperback, Paul Colinvaux takes a penetrating look at the science of ecology, bringing to his subject both profound knowledge and an enthusiasm that will encourage a greater understanding of the environment and of those who seek to preserve it. More about Why big fierce animals are rare: an ecologist's perspective
London: Hutchinson and Co., [1931]. Octavo, photographs. Publisher's cloth, very good copy. More about How animals live
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Quarto, , fine copy in dustwrapper. The results of research efforts by seventeen scientists associated with Smithsonian Institution field projects in Panama and Venezuela are brought together in the papers in this volume. Includes papers on habitat, endemic mammals, primates, avifauna and larger reptiles. More about Vertebrate ecology in the northern Neotropics
London: Collins, 1978. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. More about The penitent butchers: seventy five years of wildlife conservation
Malabar: Krieger Publishing Company, 2007. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs. Presents students nearing completion of their university education with practical, wise, workable ideas to succeed in the real-world work environment and become natural resource professionals. Seasoned professionals provide career stories and analyze these as learning experiences for those... More about Intelligent courage: natural resource careers that make a difference
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Octavo, text illustrations, signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about The fragile environment: the Darwin College lectures
Townsville: Specialty Education Supplies, 1983. Octavo, colour photographs, softcover. More about Australian tropical rainforest life
London: Macmillan, 2001. Quarto, colour photographs, dustwrapper. More about Extinct
London: Saqi Books, 2007. Octavo, black and white illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The world is losing more than animal and plant species. We are also losing the vast human legacy of languages, and with it ways of living, seeing and knowing. The author explores the history of extinctions and... More about The lost and left behind: stories from the age of extinctions
Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1997. Octavo, illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first overview in more than 20 years of natural and human-induced changes on the island's ecosystems. More about Natural change and human impact in Madagascar
Canberra: National Parks Association of the ACT, 2011. Octavo, paperback, oblong format, colour photographs, maps. Full of beautiful colour photographs, this book introduces Namadgi and the resident plants and animals. More about Namadgi: a national park for the national capital
New York: Abrams, 1992. Octavo, photographs. More about Preserving Eden: the Nature Conservancy
Malabar: Krieger, 1993. Octavo, A selection of essays on wildlife management and commercialization. More about Commercialization and wildlife management: dancing with the devil
London: Poyser, 2000. Large octavo, colour photographs, text illustrations by John Busby , fine copy in dustwrapper. The National Trust for Scotland is one of the largest landowners in Scotland owning 300 square miles, or 1 % of its countryside. Most people are aware that the Trust has ownership of... More about Scotland's nature in trust: the National Trust for Scotland and its wildlife and crofting management
London: Blandford, 1996. Quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. The first illustrated book to document China's endangered species and its conservation programme. Records the status of a wide range of species and habitats. More about China's threatened wildlife
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1996. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Over the last 530 million years there have been five mass extinctions of species - the last, 65 million years ago, when the dinosaurs disapeared. The biodiversity of our planet now may be on the verge of a sixth extinction caused this... More about The sixth extinction: biodiversity and its survival
St Leonards: Allen and Unwin, (1991. first edition). Octavo, illustrations. Owner's signature, very good copy in dustwrapper. More about Taming the great south land: a history of the conquest of nature in Australia
Sydney: Royal Zoological of NSW, 1998. Quarto, paperback. The results of a conference held to discuss ethics for zoologists. The question of how to demonstrate, encourage and even enforce environmental responsibility has been debated in the last 25 years since public recognition of pressing environmental problems. WAS $40. More about Ethics, money and politics: modern dilemmas for zoology
