London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, line drawings. Simon Barnes knew he had found a special place when he woke in his first morning in the Luangwa Valley in Zambia to find elephants eating the roof of his hut. It was a homecoming, and he has been faithful to that..... More
Portland OR: Westwinds Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Very few people who visit Yellowstone National Park and who are awed by America's only continuously wild and genetically pure bison herd are aware that over the past decade, state and federal agencies have engaged in the slaughter of 3,500 of..... More
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, maps. Colliding environmental and development interests have shaped national policy reforms supporting both oil development and environmental protection in Alaska. This book examines three significant national policy reform efforts that came out of these conflicts: the development of the Trans-Alaska pipeline, the..... More
London: Earthscan Publications, 2009. Octavo, paperback, figures, tables. The conservation of biodiversity is now big business. Whether called conservation banking, species banking, habitat banking, biodiversity banking, biodiversity offsets, compensatory mitigation or ecological footprint offsetting, the idea of financially valuing biodiversity and using the market and businesses to promote conservation is..... More
London: Granta, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, Black and white photographs. This extraordinary book is an exploration of how we might live to resist extinctions and why such disappearances must be of concern to us. Adventurous, curious and passionate about her subject, Challenger takes us on a very personal journey as she..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Illustrated with maps, colour photographs, and graphics, this reference offers a comprehensive status report on the world's 60,000 parks, nature reserves, and other land and marine areas designated as protected areas. It offers an overview of what these protected..... More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2001. Quarto, paperback, black and white photographs and diagrams. This work explains how to undertake field studies to guide conservation work. It is aimed at anyone working in conservation regardless of their professional or scientific background. The methods and procedures of scientific inquiry are explained in..... More
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2001. Quarto, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations. Synthesizing the body of knowledge of leading scientists and professionals in tropical forest ecology and management, this book's thirty chapters examine in detail the interplay between timber harvesting and wildlife, from hunted and protected habitats to invertebrates..... More
Melbourne: Text Publishing, (2002. reprint). Octavo, paperback, illustrations. Blending together the writings of early Australian explorers, settlers, and leaders, "The Birth of Sydney" editor Flannery constructs a compelling narrative history of the early life of one of the world's great cities. More
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, line drawings. The rapidly increasing number of threatened flora and fauna species worldwide is mainly due to the developmental impacts humans have had on the land. In recent years, considerable advances have been made in the techniques used to reduce the impacts..... More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2011. Octavo, paperback, black and whit photographs, figures. The research paper "Extinction Risk from Climate Change" published in the journal "Nature" in January 2004 created front-page headlines around the world. The notion that climate change could drive more than a million species to extinction captured both..... More
Collingwood: CSIRO, 2007. Octavo, paperback, This book addresses major challenges in implementing required reforms in Australian water policy and management, with particular focus on social sciences research and knowledge that can inform policy. The NWI (National Water Initiative) was launched in 2004, with a schedule of implementation through to 2014..... More
Exeter: Pelagic Publishing, 2014. Octavo, laminated boards, line drawings. Conor Mark Jameson has spent most of his life exploring the natural environment and communicating his enthusiasm for it to family, friends and readers of a range of newspapers and magazines. This book brings together the best of Jameson's writing, in..... More
Washington: Conservation International, 1998. Octavo, paperback, Illustrations, maps. In terms of national significance, the park is important as a biological reserve because it provides protection for the flora and fauna of a biogeographic region that is unlike any of the other ecosystems represented in Bolivia's National System of Protected Areas..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Since 1968, Bernie Krause has travelled the world recording the sounds of remote landscapes, endangered habitats, and rare animal species. Through his organization, Wild Sanctuary, he has collected the soundscapes of more than 2,000 different habitat types, marine..... More
Boston: Beacon Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Painfully aware of the ecological changes being brought on by global warming, Lanza sets out to show his children the wonders of North America before they have changed forever. A longtime backpacker, climber, and skier, Michael Lanza takes his children..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. This book addresses sediments as habitats, then discusses the ecosystems found on sandy shores, mudflats and seagrass beds, salt marshes and mangrove swamps, and life below the tidemarks. Adaptations of organisms to these environments are fully described and each chapter ends with..... More
Washington: Conservation International, 2001. Quarto, paperback, illustrations, tables, maps. RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment no. 14. This book provides the results of an intensive survey, that included vegetation, aquatic insects, ants, fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, maps. Award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin explores the differences between conservation and animal protection and takes a fresh look at the current situation of Africa's megafauna. Martin assesses the rising influence of the animal rights movement and finds..... More
Washington DC: Island Press, 2013. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. As an environmental mediator, Lucy Moore has spent the past quarter century resolving conflicts that appeared utterly intractable. Here, she shares the most compelling stories of her career, offering insight and inspiration to anyone caught in a seemingly hopeless dispute. Moore..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. Octavo, laminated boards, diagrams. Although a broad swath of people have some notion of what habitat is, the scientific community has by and large failed to define it concretely, despite repeated attempts in the literature to come to meaningful conclusions regarding what habitat is..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. Small quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs, maps. Features over 600 of the best places for wildlife around the world. Covers the world's most impressive wildlife reserves including those in New Guinea, India, New Zealand and Antarctica. "A splendid book. Nature's Strongholds is one of the best..... More
College Station: Texas A & M University Press, 2012. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white illustrations .BRAND NEW. There has never been a greater need for raising the funds necessary to promote the causes that will help build a sustainable future. In this book, veteran nonprofit executive director Rudolph A...... More
London: Elliott and Thompson, 2012. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, maps. In May 1912, banker and naturalist, Charles Rothschild, laid the foundations for nature conservation as we know it today. His new organisation, the Society for the Promotion of Nature Reserves had one main objective - to save Britain's finest..... More
London: Profile Books, 2011. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, colour illustrations. The WWF was established in 1961 spurred by the efforts of Max Nicholson, head of Britain's Nature Conservancy Council, naturalist Peter Scott, and a series of articles written in the "Observer" by Julian Huxley, former head of UNESCO. This book..... More