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Author : John Gooders
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wildlife Paradises written by John Gooders and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tim Laman
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426209584
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Birds of Paradise written by Tim Laman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.
Author : John Gooders
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The World's Wildlife Paradises written by John Gooders and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jules Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472958314
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Wildlife Pond Book written by Jules Howard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This friendly, practical guide includes everything you need to know to pick up a spade, put in a pond and help wildlife flourish right outside your back door. Ponds are vital oases for nature. They are nursery grounds, feeding stops and bathing spots. They are genetic superhighways and vibrant ecosystems each brimming with life, interactions and potential. And they are for everyone. In The Wildlife Pond Book, Jules Howard offers a fresh perspective on ponds and encourages gardeners to reach for a garden spade and do something positive to benefit our shared neighbourhood nature. As well as offering practical tips and advice on designing, planting up and maintaining your pond, Jules encourages readers to explore the wildlife that colonises it with a torch, a microscope or a good old-fashioned pond-dipping net. With a foreword by award-winning wildlife-gardening author, Kate Bradbury, this helpful new guide includes a section outlining the hundreds of organisms that may turn up in your pond and is packed with creative ideas that have been tried and tested by author Jules Howard, an avid pond-builder, prolific pond-dipper and passionate voice for freshwater conservation for more than fifteen years. So, no matter how big your outdoor space is, The Wildlife Pond Book is the guide you need to create your very own haven for nature.
Author : Robert J. Cabin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824839072
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Restoring Paradise written by Robert J. Cabin and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three quarters of the U.S.’s bird and plant extinctions have occurred in Hawai‘i, and one third of the country’s threatened and endangered birds and plants reside within the state. Yet despite these alarming statistics, all is not lost: There are still 12,000 extant species unique to the archipelago and new species are discovered every year. In Restoring Paradise: Rethinking and Rebuilding Nature in Hawai‘i, Robert Cabin shows why current attempts to preserve Hawai‘i’s native fauna and flora require embracing the emerging paradigm of ecological restoration—the science and art of assisting the recovery of degraded species and ecosystems and creating more meaningful and sustainable relationships between people and nature. Cabin’s extensive experience as a research ecologist and applied practitioner enables him to provide a rare, behind-the-scenes look at successful and inspiring restoration programs. In Part 1 he recounts Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge’s efforts to restore thousands of acres of degraded pasture on the island of Hawai‘i back to the native rain forests that once dominated the area and sheltered native birds now on the brink of extinction. Along the way, he presents an overview of Hawaiian natural and cultural history, biogeography, and evolutionary biology. Following chapters look at restoration work underway by the U.S. Park Service to reestablish native species within the vast Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park; by a charismatic scientist and dedicated volunteers to restore the native forests of Auwahi on the southern slopes of Haleakalā; and by the Limahuli branch of Kauai’s National Tropical Botanical Garden to revive a thousand-year-old taro plantation. To investigate the compelling and often conflicting philosophies and strategies of those involved in restoration, Cabin opens Part 3 with interview excerpts from a cross-section of Hawai‘i’s environmental community. He concludes with a provocative and insightful discussion of the contentious, evolving relationship between humans and nature and the power and limitations of science within and beyond Hawai‘i.
Author : William Stolzenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608191036
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Rat Island written by William Stolzenburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the highly controversial practice of rescuing endangered island species by killing their predators, explaining how rats and other animals introduced to the Bering Sea midway by shipwrecks have decimated native bird populations.
Author : Paul G. Irwin
Publisher : Square One Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780757000034
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Losing Paradise written by Paul G. Irwin and published by Square One Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the dangerous consequences of destroying aspects of the ecosystem and the actions necessary to avoid detestation of the environment, including such suggestions as the return to a self-sustaining agricultural system.
Author : Channa N. B. Bambaradeniya
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520257856
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (578 download)
Download or read book The Illustrated Atlas of Wildlife written by Channa N. B. Bambaradeniya and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vividly illustrated atlas is the essential wildlife reference, providing a spectacular visual survey of animals and their habitats across the globe.
Author : William Bryant
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595380417
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Birds of Paradise written by William Bryant and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of the world's great naturalists, with details of his explorations on the Amazon and in the Malay Archipelago. Wallace's hidden sexual life, the world of Victorian science and gay sexuality, and the struggles of a great thinker to survive in a hostile social environment are described in lavish detail.
Author : William Stolzenburg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1608193314
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Rat Island written by William Stolzenburg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other remote islands around the world, a massive-and massively controversial-wildlife rescue mission is under way. Islands, making up just 3 percent of Earth's landmass, harbor more than half of its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by mainland predators-rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders, academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with rat poison. Rat Island reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today's conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy. Touring exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.
Author : Steve Nicholls
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226583422
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book Paradise Found written by Steve Nicholls and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter’s dream, with populations of game too abundant and diverse to even fathom. It’s no wonder these first settlers thought they had discovered a paradise of sorts. Fortunately for us, they left a legacy of copious records documenting what they saw, and these observations make it possible to craft a far more detailed evocation of North America before its settlement than any other place on the planet. Here Steve Nicholls brings this spectacular environment back to vivid life, demonstrating with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. The story of the continent’s colonization forms a backdrop to its natural history, which Nicholls explores in chapters on the North Atlantic, the East Coast, the Subtropical Caribbean, the West Coast, Baja California, and the Great Plains. Seamlessly blending firsthand accounts from centuries past with the findings of scientists today, Nicholls also introduces us to a myriad cast of characters who have chronicled the changing landscape, from pre–Revolutionary era settlers to researchers whom he has met in the field. A director and writer of Emmy Award–winning wildlife documentaries for the Smithsonian Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic, and PBS, Nicholls deploys a cinematic flair for capturing nature at its most mesmerizing throughout. But Paradise Found is much more than a celebration of what once was: it is also a reminder of how much we have lost along the way and an urgent call to action so future generations are more responsible stewards of the world around them. The result is popular science of the highest order: a book as remarkable as the landscape it recreates and as inspired as the men and women who discovered it.
Author : Megan Mayhew Bergman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451643365
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Birds of a Lesser Paradise written by Megan Mayhew Bergman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of stories focusing on the moments when bonds with nature become evident, including the story of a mother and son attempting to reclaim an African gray parrot and of a population control activist who longs to have a baby.
Author : Daniel Simberloff
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781597263313
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Strangers in Paradise written by Daniel Simberloff and published by Island Press. This book was released on 1997-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invasive nonindigenous species -- plants and animals that have been introduced to an ecosystem from someplace else -- are wreaking havoc around the globe. Because they did not co-evolve with species already in the ecosystem, they can profoundly disturb species interactions and ecosystem function.The state of Florida has one of the most severe exotic species problems in the country; as much as a quarter of many taxa in Florida are nonnative, and millions of acres of land and water are dominated by nonindigenous species. Strangers in Paradise provides an in-depth examination of the Florida experience and of the ongoing efforts to eradicate or manage introduced species. Chapters consider: natural disturbance and the spread of nonindigenous species case studies of insects, freshwater invertebrates, fishes, amphibians and reptiles, birds, marine invertebrates and algae, and mammals methods of managing nonindigenous species including ecological restoration, eradication, "maintenance control," and biological control management on public lands the regulatory framework including the role of the federal government as well as state authorities and responsibilities Strangers in Paradise is the first comprehensive volume to address a large, diverse region and the full range of nonindigenous species, the problems they cause, and the methods and impediments to dealing with them. Throughout, contributors emphasize solutions and relate the situation in Florida to problems faced by other states, making the book an important guide for anyone involved with control and management of invasive species.
Author : David L. Callies
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824860446
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book Regulating Paradise written by David L. Callies and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-07-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land use in Hawai‘i remains the most regulated of all the fifty states. According to many sources, the process of going from raw land to the completion of a project may well average ten years given that ninety-five percent of raw land is initially classified by the State Land Use Commission as either conservation or agriculture. How did this happen and to what end? Will it continue? What laws and regulations control the use of land? Is the use of land in Hawai‘i a right or a privilege? These questions and others are addressed in this long-overdue second edition of Regulating Paradise, a comprehensive and accessible text that will guide readers through the many layers of laws, plans, and regulations that often determine how land is used in Hawai‘i. It provides the tools to analyze an enormously complex process, one that frustrates public and private sectors alike, and will serve as an essential reference for students, planners, regulators, lawyers, land use professionals, environmental and cultural organizations, and others involved with land use and planning.
Author : John Knight
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004187936
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Herding Monkeys to Paradise written by John Knight and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed study of monkey parks in Japan. It describes how the parks manage free-ranging macaque troops for touristic display and examines the various problems that arise, as well as proposals for park reform.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Knowles-Paradise Dam Project written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation on the Interior and iNsular Affairs Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Knowles-Paradise Dam Project written by United States. Congress. Senate. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation on the Interior and iNsular Affairs Committee and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
