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Defying Extinction
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Author : Global Environment Facility
language : en
Publisher: Global Environment Facility
Release Date : 2011-05-02
Defying Extinction written by Global Environment Facility and has been published by Global Environment Facility this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-02 with Nature categories.
Defying Extinction
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Author : Lisa Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
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The Woodhen
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Author : Clifford Frith
language : en
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2013-06-12
The Woodhen written by Clifford Frith and has been published by CSIRO PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-12 with Science categories.
This book tells the fascinating success story of saving the flightless Woodhen of Lord Howe Island. This unique large rail, an iconic and highly endangered Australian bird, was at the very brink of extinction with just 15 individuals found in 1980, when bold and risky actions were taken to save it. The book begins with the discovery and ecology of Lord Howe Island. It then details the history of the Woodhen, its place among the rails and their evolution of flightlessness, the planning, implementation and trials, tribulations and successes of the captive breeding programme and the way in which the wild population recovered. The ecology, behaviour and breeding biology of this unique flightless island rail are also discussed. The text is accompanied by numerous photographs and drawings. This is a story of survival, yet the bird remains highly endangered as it is under constant potential threat, which could tip it over the brink and to extinction. The Woodhen provides gripping insights into the potential for both losing and saving vertebrate species. Winner of a 2014 Whitley Awards Certificate of Commendation for Historical Zoology.
Defying Extinction
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Author : Amy Barone
language : en
Publisher: Broadstone Books
Release Date : 2022-06-30
Defying Extinction written by Amy Barone and has been published by Broadstone Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30 with categories.
Poems from a clear-eyed realist, this new collection from Amy Barone enumerates our losses but is ultimately hopeful. In her new collection, DEFYING EXTINCTION, poet Amy Barone informs us that she is in line for the spaceship to migrate to Mars. It's easy to understand the impulse to escape this troubled world with "its fuss that festers when walls go up" for "a life unfettered / by wires, rules, love, and reason," but the rest of her book suggests she's not quite ready to give up on more terrestrial solutions. Her opening poem is a hopeful catalog of animal "Survivors", and she appends herself to that list. Her defiance is that of a clear-eyed realist, and her poems enumerate losses, as various as formerly happy Venezuelans "starved for hope and joy," or horses dying of tainted feed, both victims of human folly and greed. She mourns the erosion of "Civilization as I like it ñ slowly vanishing in American towns." Her title poem is a memorial to the Triangle Shirtwaist victims, making plain that the extinction we are denying is our own, at our own hands. Still, this is an optimistic volume, and Barone finds hope in such "heirlooms" as analog clocks, spicy food, and handkerchiefs, in the fact the Catallus still instructs us over centuries, and in trees "that take longer / than stars and some loves to die." She also offers such sage advice as "Date music, not musicians" and "Friends and lovers should be stamped / with an expiration date." She ends on a near universal pandemic sentiment, "I miss what once was / and a little of what followed," and exhorts us to learn from this moment: "Recharge your smartphone -- / freedom's on the line." "The title of Amy Barone's new collection of poems, DEFYING EXTINCTION, is absolutely perfect! Amy travels around the world to view nature, and then write about it, thus saving it. She starts with Bermuda's Nonsuch Island, moves on to Santo Domingo, gets to the Great Barrier Reef and then eventually ends up in Kruger National Park. There's even a poem entitled ëMars Bound!' She celebrates her love of Earth and of the heavens, not to mention the occasional love in her life, for one overriding purpose--to push extinction away from herself, and by extension, from all of us. This is a vital book in these harsh times, please check it out."--Ron Kolm, Contributing Editor of Sensitive Skin magazine and author of Swimming in the Shallow End "In DEFYING EXTINCTION, Amy Barone gathers memories, sensations, and images and presents them with an artist's insight. Here are flashes of places and events in our natural world--and beyond--in poems that sparkle like the jewels that are often mentioned. Barone's imagination ranges far and wide, yet is anchored close to home. She sets out to preserve the essence of who we are--and what we've lost--so that it will never disappear. She has succeeded admirably. Reading these poems is like seeing things anew, from childhood to present, and understanding what we are seeing."--Thaddeus Rutkowski, author of Tricks of Light "As if reading sacred hieroglyphs by torchlight, Amy Barone brings the shrines of her life into crystal-etched relief. Elegiac, erudite, and elegant, she captures the raptures (and ruptures) of existence. DEFYING EXTINCTION stylishly resurrects our faith in omens."--Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, author of Party Everywhere Poetry.
Revenant Ecologies
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Author : Audra Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2024-01-16
Revenant Ecologies written by Audra Mitchell and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-16 with Nature categories.
Engaging a broad spectrum of ecological thought to articulate the ethical scale of global extinction As global rates of plant and animal extinctions mount, anxieties about the future of the earth’s ecosystems are fueling ever more ambitious efforts at conservation, which draw on Western scientific principles to manage species and biodiversity. In Revenant Ecologies, Audra Mitchell argues that these responses not only ignore but also magnify powerful forms of structural violence like colonialism, racism, genocide, extractivism, ableism, and heteronormativity, ultimately contributing to the destruction of unique life forms and ecosystems. Critiquing the Western discourse of global extinction and biodiversity through the lens of diverse Indigenous philosophies and other marginalized knowledge systems, Revenant Ecologies promotes new ways of articulating the ethical enormity of global extinction. Mitchell offers an ambitious framework—(bio)plurality—that focuses on nurturing unique, irreplaceable worlds, relations, and ecosystems, aiming to transform global ecological–political relations, including through processes of land return and critically confronting discourses on “human extinction.” Highlighting the deep violence that underpins ideas of “extinction,” “conservation,” and “biodiversity,” Revenant Ecologies fuses political ecology, global ethics, and violence studies to offer concrete, practical alternatives. It also foregrounds the ways that multi-life-form worlds are actively defying the forms of violence that drive extinction—and that shape global efforts to manage it. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.
The Woodhen
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Author : Clifford B. Frith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
The Woodhen written by Clifford B. Frith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Nature categories.
Tells the fascinating success story of the saving of the globally significant, iconic, flightless Woodhen of Lord Howe Island.
After They Re Gone
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Author : Peter Marren
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2022-05-05
After They Re Gone written by Peter Marren and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-05 with Nature categories.
'Wise, challenging and offering some unexpected laughter in the dark, this is a rational and insightful account of the sixth great extinction event. Peter Marren is a brilliant writer and a national treasure.' PATRICK BARKHAM 'Thoughtful, fascinating and very timely.' STEPHEN MOSS 'Important and thought-provoking.' CAROLINE LUCAS, GREEN PARTY MP 'Essential reading. Marren makes a page-turner out of Armageddon.' SIMON BARNES 'In his characteristic style Peter Marren has humanised the story of wildlife losses with humour and wit but also with his enormous knowledge and deep love for the living world.' MARK COCKER We are in the midst of an extinction event: the sixth mass extinction on earth and one entirely caused by mankind. All species become extinct sooner or later, but we have accelerated that natural process several hundredfold and now, it is happening right in front of our eyes. Extinction has a terrifying finality to it. And many species have already been lost to us forever; there is little we can do about that. What we can do, however, is reflect, remember, and ultimately acknowledge the unvarnished truth. We must see the natural world as it is, and not as we might want it to be. Our trajectory is one that has benefited one species alone - humankind. For all other beings, from mammals to fish, from birds to insects and coral, from plants to lichens and fungi, the future, for better or worse, is in our hands.
Defying Danger
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Author : Roberto Valdes Martinez
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2012-02-15
Defying Danger written by Roberto Valdes Martinez and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author has wanted to contribute with his experiences and pay homage to this specialty so he elaborated the chapters that make of Defying danger an original book with testimonies, opinions, anecdotes, relevant events, so far unknown, in which the professionalism and the courage of the operatives of this Body were decisive. Connected to the boldness of this task, it is observed how with its development the technique and the knowledge were increasing in each risky operation, for it would be impossible to ignore the prevention for its importance and teachings to eliminate or reduce to the minimum catastrophes of big proportions. Within these pages there are chapters about: fires, rescues, collapses, forest fires, cyclones, mental patients, on top of the confrontation to criminal sabotages where always, the combatants of the Direccin de Incendios do their job facing dangers and risks to their lives.
Threatened And Recently Extinct Vertebrates Of The World
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Author : Matthew Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-09
Threatened And Recently Extinct Vertebrates Of The World written by Matthew Richardson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-09 with Nature categories.
Habitat loss and degradation are currently the main anthropogenic causes of species extinctions. The root cause is human overpopulation. This unique volume provides, for the very first time, a comprehensive overview of all threatened and recently extinct mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes within the context of their locations and habitats. The approach takes a systematic examination of each biogeographic realm and region of the world, both terrestrial and marine, but with a particular emphasis on geographic features such as mountains, islands, and coral reefs. It reveals patterns useful in biodiversity conservation, helps to put it all into perspective, and ultimately serves as both a baseline from which to compare subsequent developments as well as a standardization of the way threatened species are studied.
The Woodhen
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Author : Clifford Frith
language : en
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2013-06-12
The Woodhen written by Clifford Frith and has been published by CSIRO PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-12 with History categories.
This book tells the fascinating success story of saving the flightless Woodhen of Lord Howe Island. This unique large rail, an iconic and highly endangered Australian bird, was at the very brink of extinction with just 15 individuals found in 1980, when bold and risky actions were taken to save it. The book begins with the discovery and ecology of Lord Howe Island. It then details the history of the Woodhen, its place among the rails and their evolution of flightlessness, the planning, implementation and trials, tribulations and successes of the captive breeding programme and the way in which the wild population recovered. The ecology, behaviour and breeding biology of this unique flightless island rail are also discussed. The text is accompanied by numerous photographs and drawings. This is a story of survival, yet the bird remains highly endangered as it is under constant potential threat, which could tip it over the brink and to extinction. The Woodhen provides gripping insights into the potential for both losing and saving vertebrate species. Winner of a 2014 Whitley Awards Certificate of Commendation for Historical Zoology.