AUSTRALIA ' S MAMMAL EXTINCTIONS : A 50,000 - YEAR HISTORY

Publication Date: March 12, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0521849187 | Edition: 1

Of the forty mammal species known to have vanished in the world in the last 200 years, almost half have been Australian. Our continent has the worst record of mammal extinctions, with over 65 mammal species having vanished in the last 50 000 years. It began with the great wave of megafauna extinctions in the last ice-age, and continues today, with many mammal species vulnerable to extinction. The question of why mammals became extinct, and why so many became extinct in Australia has been debated by experts for over a century and a half and we are no closer to agreement on the causes. This book introduces readers to the great mammal extinction debate. Chris Johnson takes us on a detective-like tour of these extinctions, uncovering how, why and when they occurred.

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Australia's Mammal Extinctions: A 50,000-Year History

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE DINOSAURS ?: A BOOK ABOUT EXTINCTION (FIRST FACTS)

Publication Date: September 1, 2006 | Age Level: 6 and up | Grade Level: 1 and up | Series: First Facts

Provides an explanation of extinction, including what it is, why it happens, and how people can help stop animal and plant extinction from happening.

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What Happened to the Dinosaurs?: A Book about Extinction (First Facts)

ANIMAL UNDERWORLD: INSIDE AMERICA'S BLACK MARKET FOR RARE AND EXOTIC SPECIES

Publication Date: March 7, 2006

A vast and previously undisclosed underground economy exists in the United States. The products bought and sold: animals. In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in rare and exotic creatures. Green and The Center for Public Integrity reveal which American zoos and amusement parks dump their "surplus" animals on the middlemen adept at secretly redirecting them into the private pet trade. We're taken to exotic-animal auctions, where the anonymous high bidders are often notorious dealers, hunting-ranch proprietors, and profit-minded charlatans masquerading as conservationists. We visit some of the nation's most prestigious universities and research laboratories, whose diseased monkeys are "laundered" through this same network of breeders and dealers until they finally reach the homes of unsuspecting pet owners. And we meet the men and women who make their living by skirting through loopholes in the law, or by ignoring the law altogether. For anyone who cares about animals; for pet owners, zoo-goers, wildlife conservationists, and animal welfare advocates, Animal Underworld is gripping, shocking reading.

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Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species