GOING, GOING, GONE : 100 ANIMALS AND PLANTS ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION

We asked 100 conservation groups around the world: 'if you could pick one species that epitomises your work, which would it be?' From the RSPB to WWF to the Cheetah Conservation Fund, and many, many more, the answers came rolling in. Each provided a synopsis of the threats faced by their selected species, a summary of their degree of threat, an outline of the work being done to save them, and a number of ways in which the reader could help to conserve that species.

With beautiful full-page photographs of each of the 100 species, this is a book that will both fascinate and educate and, hopefully, help to secure the future of the threatened animals and plants that it showcases.

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Going, Going, Gone: 100 animals and plants on the verge of extinction

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY : THEORY, PRACTICE, PROGRESS AND PROMISE

Publication Date: January 27, 1998

Environmental education is a field characterised by a paradox. Few would doubt the urgency and importance of learning to live in sustainable ways, but environmental education holds nowhere near the priority position in formal schooling around the world that this would suggest. This text sets out to find out why this is so. It is divided into six parts:
Part 1 is a concise history of the development of environmental education from an international perspective;
Part 2 is an overview of the 'global agenda', or subject knowledge of environmental education;
Part 3 introduces perspectives on theory and research in environmental education;
Part 4 moves on to practice, and presents an integrated model for planning environmental education programmes;
Part 5 brings together invited contributors who talk about environmental education in their own countries - from 15 countries including China, South Africa, Sri Lanka and the USA;
Part 6 returns to the core questions of how progress can be made, and how we can maximise the potential of environmental education for the twenty first century.

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Environmental Education in the 21st Century: Theory, Practice, Progress and Promise

NATURE'S SAVIOURS : CELEBRITY CONSERVATIONISTS IN THE TELEVISION AGE

Publication Date: October 5, 2013

Graham Huggan is Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Leeds, UK. His research spans the entire field of comparative postcolonial literary/cultural studies, with further interests in the areas of ecocriticism, travel writing, short fiction, and film.

Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media, play a major role in drawing public attention to an increasingly threatened world. This book, one of the first to address this contribution, focuses on five key figures: the English naturalist David Attenborough, the French marine adventurer Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the American primatologist Dian Fossey, the Canadian scientist-broadcaster-activist David Suzuki, and the Australian 'crocodile hunter' Steve Irwin.

Some of the issues the author addresses include: What is the changing relationship between western conservation and celebrity? How has the spread of television helped shape and mediate this relationship? To what extent can celebrity conservation be seen as part of a global system in which conservation, like celebrity, is big business? The book critically examines the heroic status accorded to the five figures mentioned above, taking in the various discourses – around nature, science, nation, gender – through which they and their work have been presented to us. In doing so, it fills in the cultural, historical and ideological background behind contemporary celebrity conservationism as a popular expression of a chronically endangered world.

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Nature's Saviours: Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age

CONSERVATION (EARTHSCAN REFERENCE COLLECTIONS)

Publication Date: November 28, 2008 | Series: Earthscan Reference Collections

The thought-provoking articles in Conservation can assist in catalyzing the transition to a new green economy by shaping the mind-sets of leaders, students, teachers and the public alike.' Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Director, UN Environment Programme (UNEP) 'An extremely useful compilation of articles on the complex issues underlying nature conservation.' Ashish Kothari, Co-chair, IUCN Intercommission Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity, and Livelihoods in Relation to Protected Areas (TILCEPA) 'In this intelligently chosen, broadly ranging set of readings on conservation, Professor Adams assembles a set of vital readings for professionals, teachers, students, and the interested public.' Kent Redford, Director, Wildlife Conservation Society Institute This 4-volume set, edited by a leading expert on nature conservation, brings together in one collection a series of papers fundamental to understanding the social, political, cultural and scientific dimensions of conservation. Each volume is introduced by a new review essay, which both sets the scope for the collection and advances analytical understanding of conservation issues. Volume I covers the historical development of conservation ideas and reviews the diverse contemporary philosophical, ethical, cultural and practical arguments for conservation. Volume II addresses the core issue of conservation: the maintenance of living diversity in the face of human demands on the biosphere. The intention here is not to offer a sourcebook of conservation science, but to include the key texts that have changed the way conservation is understood and practised. Volume III explores the overlaps and conflicts between conservation and development, and �win-win� solutions to conflicts between the two, including ideas of sustainable development. Volume IV presents work on conservation as an essentially political process, drawing chiefly on social science and, in particular, political ecology and environmental history.

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Conservation (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Dinosaurs - Concepts, Histology and Stratigraphy

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Dinosaurs - Concepts, Histology and Stratigraphy

OLD YYELLER (TURTLEBACK SCHOOL AND LIBRARY BINDING EDITION)

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, 14-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.

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Old Yeller (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

EXTINCTION : THE CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SPECIES

305 numbered pages. Copyright 1981 by Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich. Published in the USA by Random House, Inc., New York. Manufactured in the USA with number line: "24689753". Stated "First Edition" but based on number line, a 2nd printing.

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Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species