State of the Wild 2008-2009

ISLAND PRESSISBN: 9781597261357

A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans

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Edited by Eva Fearn, Foreword by Ward Woods
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312

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By the Numbers: Emerging Diseases and Conservation
Foreword: The Value of Conservation
Introduction Future States of the Wild
 
PART I. State of the Wild
Chapter 1. Tipping Point: Perspective of a Climatologist
Chapter 2. Discoveries
Chapter 3. The Rarest of the Rare: Some of the World's Most Endangered Animals
Chapter 4. Continuing to Consume Wildlife: An Update
 
PART II. Focus on the Wild
Chapter 5. Emerging Diseases and Conservation: One World'One Health
Chapter 6. Little Is Big, Many Is One: Zoonoses in the Twenty-first Century
Chapter 7. Land-Use Change as a Driver of Disease
Chapter 8. Transboundary Management of Natural Resources and the Importance of a ""One Health"" Approach: Perspectives on Southern Africa
Chapter 9. An Ounce of Prevention: Lessons from the First Avian Influenza Scare
Chapter 10. Why Wildlife Health Matters in North America
Chapter 11. Warming Oceans, Increasing Disease: Mapping the Health Effects of Climate Change
Chapter 12. Conservation Controversy, To Cull or Not to Cull?
 
PART III: Emerging Issues in the Wild
Chapter 13. The Last of the Great Overland Migrations
Chapter 14. Downward Spiral, Catastrophic Decline of South Asia's Vultures
Chapter 15. Conserving Cold-Blooded Australians
Chapter 16. Settling for Less, Disappearing Diadromous Fishes
Chapter 17. Mapping the State of the Oceans
Chapter 18. Africa's Last Wild Places, Why Conservation Can't Wait
Chapter 19. The Deep Sea: Unknown and Under Threat
Chapter 20. Climate Change in the Andes
Chapter 21. Grazers and Grasslands: Restoring Biodiversity to the Prairies
Chapter 22. Conservation and Human Displacement
Chapter 23. Conservation Psychology: Who Cares about the Biodiversity Crisis?
Chapter 24. Biogenetics and Conservation: Celebrate or Worry?
Chapter 25. Conservation in Conflict: Illegal Drugs Versus Habitat in the Americas
Chapter 26. Rewilding the Islands
Chapter 27. Addressing AIDS: Conservation in Africa
Chapter 28. Conservation as Diplomacy \ Steven E. Sanderson
 
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""I can truly say that this is one of the more interesting and informative books that I have read concerning the state of our environment, the role of humans in that environment, and how individuals and groups are working to 'save' aspects of the wild and wilderness""

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