Endangered Species Books

This edited book provides a good introduction to Canada's management of endangered species ("species at risk" in Canadian). Individual chapters provide background information, history, and discussion of federal, provincial and international efforts to protect endangered species, both terrestrial and marine. Authors always have one eye on US policy, generally as a model - - the US passed the world's first endangered species act, and it arguably still has the world's strongest protection.

The only real limitation of this book is beyond the authors' control, since Canada finally passed its first Species at Risk Act only after the book was published. This Act is weaker than its US counterpart, though some provisions learn from experiences south of the border. It would be good to have a revised version of this book looking at Canadian experience since passage of this Act.

The book lacks any theoretical or analytical framework but the authors provide good, analytical chapters nonetheless. This is the place to start if you want to learn about Canadian protection of endangered species.

This book, first published in the U.S. in 1990, covers 129 extant animals and a further 13 extinct animals. Aside from a lovely foreward and introduction, rare species from all of the geographical regions including Europe, Africa, Asia, Australasia, the Americas and the oceans are covered. Each animal is explained under the topics of description, geographic distribution, habitat and population. A lovely illustration follows each explanation. The language is simple enough for a ten year old to comprehend, but it still provides an informative account of each species. Among the animals covered are well known ones like the tiger, panda, leopard, wolf, black rhinoceros, blue whale, walrus, orang-utan and komodo dragon, along with lesser known creatures such as the Cuban solenodon, Indri, olm, maned wolf, yellow-footed rock wallaby, pygmy hippopotamus and numbat. It focuses on not only mammals but also reptiles, birds and amphibians.

I recommend this book to any person who is interested in learning about some of the most endangered animals in the world. What you'll get is an easy to use book with easy to read text along with eye-candy artwork to drool on. The book consists of 192 pages.

I was a little disappointed in how small this book was- that was my fault, I didn't pay attention to the actual description of the book. I bought it as a gift for my 8 year old grand daughter who is in the 3rd grade. She loved it. She loves animals, knows a lot about them from watching Animal Planet, so I was afraid the book would be boring or too simple, but watching tv isn't the same as reading! She wants me to buy some of the other 'True Tales' books about animals. As an adult I was disappointed, the child it was for loved it!!

There's a cheetah by you, watch out! Help my baby is missing. Did the gorillas take her? Will you help me? Hey why is your friend Halverson trying to take a baby gorilla? Oh you just got snared in a poacher's trap, ouch! It's starting to rain, and I hear there's cholera in the air. What's a movie crew doing here? Learn about matsuko meadows!! You have an appointment to meet Mweri, who can guide you to look for the gorillas, but you don't see him yet. Should you wait for him, or continue on without him? This book has a great variety of good and bad endings, and then some okay ones. The action and stories can be slow, but most of the endings have enough differentiation to be appealing to many readers. Enjoy your African safari as a photographer and writer for African Naturalist magazine!

Peter Jackson is the chairman of the Cat Specialists Group of the IUCN. This book, published in 1990, includes information on all aspects of the life of the tiger. The book is divided into the following chapters:

Introduction
1. A day in the life of a tiger
2. The origin and spread of the tiger
3. Territory, mating and family life
4. The world of the tiger
5. Tigers and people
6. Man-eaters
7. The decline of the tiger
8. Crisis and action
9. Studying the tiger
10. Problems and solutions
11. Can the tiger survive?

In its 128 pages, it includes all the information concisely, as well as beautiful pictures showing this great cat in the wild.
Although I wish there were a few more, what's there is admirable and of high quality. Knowing the author, you can also read it assured that the information is true and accurate. I, without a doubt, recommend this book to anyone who wishes to learn more about these majestic creatures. Even veterans on the subject will undoubtly find this book beneficial.

My son, who is 4, loved this book. The photos/pictures are amazing and it is a great way to introduce young children to non-fiction books.

This book is a fascinating 300 page message to the public that if the Cheasapeake Bay, a long sufferer of pollution and overharvesting, is to survive as both a marketable commodity and a landmark of the southeast, many changes must be put into place. Horton explains many interwoven factors contributing to the bay's problems, including nitrogen, phosphorus pollution (from farm fertilizers), sediment pollution (which clouds water and suffocates underwater grasses), overfishing, and sprawl development. It was really interesting to see how all these parts were the sum of a greater equation, and gets you to think how something simple you do everyday and take for granted really could have an effect on something miles away (hairspray, anyone?). The one thing I didn't like though is that a lot of the information was repeated (probably intentional to stress his points) and you could pretty much get the gist of the book before you were halfway done. But overall, a very solid, eyeopening, and unflinchingly LIBERAL book!

Wildlife Issues in a Changing World is a textbook on... wildlife issues! There is an emphasis on the United States, but there are a good number of international examples as well. I really like the chapters on the Evil Quartet, what is wildlife, and what are wildlife issues. As I use this book in my courses, I depend on it as a source of wildlife issue examples, supplemented with DVDs and videos (to "bring" wildlife into the classroom).

It is, in general, a hard book for students. I don't mean hard in terms of the materials. It is well-written, and rather easy to read. It is hard to use to study for tests. I tell students that it compliments the lectures, and doesn't repeat them. Students tend to complain that it has too many examples, so the "themes" that they are tested on are difficult to find.

I still find it the best text for my purposes for a general course with primarily non-natural resource students. I like it for its price as well.

This is a great start to this story. Already deception and betrail. You cant get any better than that. Cant wait for issue #201

Great issue that's part of a great story leading up to the next big X event. But the image they show on the cover isn't even the image I got. I am pretty dissapointed with the fact that, after buying, I look to see two other images other than the main/first shown one and see the image I actually got. It should be a more direct wording because the other one was a much cooler cover.