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Condor

by John Nielsen

The California condor

has been described as a bird

"with one wing in the grave."

Flying on wings nearly ten feet wide from tip to tip, these birds thrived on the carcasses of animals like woolly mammoths. Then,...


Gold Rush in the Jungle: The Race to Discover and Defend the Rarest Animals of Vietnam's "Lost World"

by Dan Jr Drollette

An engrossing, adventure-filled account of the rush to discover and save Vietnam's most extraordinary animals

 

     Deep in the jungle where the borders of Vietnam meet those of Laos and Cambodia is a region...


Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye: A Family Field Trip to the Arctic's Edge in Search of Adventure, Truth, and Mini-Marshmallows

by Zac Unger

Churchill, Manitoba, is “The Polar Bear Capital of the World,” and for one unforgettable “bear season,” Zac Unger, his wife, and his three children moved from Oakland, California, to make it their temporary...


Coral Reefs of the Southern Gulf of Mexico

by John W. Tunnell, Ernesto A. Chávez & Kim Withers

Coral reefs declined worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, making them perhaps the most endangered marine ecosystem on Earth. This realization spurred John W. Tunnell Jr. and others to write a comprehensive...


Encounters with Florida's Endangered Wildlife

by Doug Alderson

Eastern bison roamed Florida into the 1800s. Red wolves disappeared in the 1920s. The dusky seaside sparrow was declared extinct in 1990.

It's too soon to say whether the 116 threatened, endangered, or imperiled...


The Last Rhinos

by Lawrence Anthony & Graham Spence

When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act. If the world lost the sub-species, it would be the largest...


The Black Rhinos of Namibia: Searching for Survivors in the African Desert

by Rick Bass

Acclaimed nature writer Rick Bass takes us on a journey into the Namib Desert to follow a group of poachers-turned-conservationists as they track the endangered black rhinos through their ancient and harsh African...


Panda: Back from the Brink (fixed layout)

by Zhou Mengqi

A celebration of the iconic giant panda (includes donation to the pandas in the care of Edinburgh Zoo). Despite becoming a symbol of wildlife conservation, having narrowly avoided extinction, there are fewer...


Ivory's Ghosts: The White Gold of History and the Fate of Elephants

by John Frederick Walker

Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power...


Panda: Back from the Brink

by Zhou Mengqi

A celebration of the iconic giant panda (includes donation to the pandas in the care of Edinburgh Zoo). Despite becoming a symbol of wildlife conservation, having narrowly avoided extinction, there are fewer...


Only One Earth: The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development

by Felix Dodds, Michael Strauss & Maurice F. with F. with Strong

Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership...


The Endangered Species Act and Federalism: Effective Conservation through Greater State Commitment

by Kaush Arha & Barton H. H. Thompson Jr.

States today play a major role in implementing and enforcing environmental laws such as the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. A thirty year review of ESA identified...


Extinct Birds

by Julian P Hume & Michael Walters

This is the first comprehensive review of the hundreds of bird speciesthat have become extinct over the last 1,000 years of habitatdegradation, over-hunting and rat introduction. Covering both familiarextinct...


Last Stand

by Michael Punke

In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve. It was the era of Manifest Destiny, a Gilded Age that treated the West as...