Endangered Species

The Jarawa, one of the oldest tribes of human beings in the world, may go extinct because of a road that runs through pristine forests in the Indian-administered Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal, and no one seems to care. Tourists take the road each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781861515827Author William C McGrewFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Mereo BooksPublisher Mereo BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The first book by wildlife photographer and writer Larry Laverty, Power and Majesty features extraordinary images and informative text that capture the life of African elephants. The book focuses on these majestic animals and features stunning...

A stunning visual and personal journey in search of the iconic big cat, the snow leopard. The snow leopard, known as the ghost of the mountains, is an elusive predator that has captured the human imagination for eons. Yet, by nature secretive, living at...

The global loss of biodiversity is occurring at an unprecedented pace. Despite the considerable effort devoted to conservation science and management, we still lack even the most basic data on the distribution and density of the majority of plant and...

From the snub-nosed monkeys of China to the mountain gorillas of central Africa, our closest nonhuman relatives are in critical danger worldwide. A recent report, for example, warns that nearly 20 percent of the world's primates may go extinct within the...

"Endlessly fascinating, unpretentiously educational, thoughtfully accessible and beautifully presented" - Alex Tattersall, award-winning underwater photographer and the founder of Underwater Visions.The Coral Triangle, straddling the confluence of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Nautilus Gold Award 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780262047029Author Thom Van DoorenFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in...

Post-war Afghanistan is fragile, volatile, and perilous. It is also a place of extraordinary beauty. Evolutionary biologist Alex Deghan came to Afghanistan and created a startup, Conservation X Labs, to save Afghanistan's unique and extraordinary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354402258Author Charles DarwinFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint Fingerprint! PublishingPublisher Prakash Books

The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in...

Beginning in 1984, Eric Dinerstein led a team directly responsible for the recovery of the greater one-horned rhinoceros in the Royal Chitwan National Park in Nepal, where the population had once declined to as few as 100 rhinos. The Return of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416954743Author Terri IrwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 154mm...

In Honey Paw and Lightfoot, readers are given a firsthand, compelling glimpse of grizzly bears. Illuminated by Jonathan’s London spare, lyrical text and Jon Van Zyle’s spectacular illustrations, this is the story of mama bear Honey Paw and her offspring...

This book considers how we encounter and make meaning from extinction in diverse settings and cultures. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary range of scholars to consider how extinction is memorialised in museums and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681340876Author Adam Regn ArvidsonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

"Tiger Moon" is the powerful, poetic story of the Sunquists' two years studying tigers in Nepal. A new afterword tells the story of promising efforts to reconnect fractured Nepalese tiger habitats.About the AuthorFiona Sunquist is a wildlife writer and...

For eons, female members of the Porcupine caribou herd have made the journey from their winter feeding grounds to their summer calving grounds-which happen to lie on vast reserves of oil. They once roamed borderless wilderness; now they trek from Canada,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780547085951Author Michael ShellenbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Houghton MifflinPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

The Boids are back in town ... The follow-up to the award-winning EXTINCT BOIDS, this book features more of the incredible art of cartoonist Ralph Steadman. This time the focus is not on the birds that are gone, but the ones that there's still time to...

Established over a century ago, Fauna & Flora International (FFI) was the world's first international conservation organisation. The pioneering work of its founders in Africa led to the creation of numerous protected areas, including Kruger...

The passenger pigeon, the great auk, the Tasmanian tiger-the memory of these vanished species haunts the fight against extinction. Seeking to save other creatures from their fate in an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, wildlife advocates have become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262547345Author Thom van DoorenFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 143mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772440072Author John SteckleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Rock's Mills PressPublisher Rock's Mills PressWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Few animals face as violent, as well organised, and as determined an enemy as the world's rhinos. Across the continent, rhinos are being slaughtered on a daily basis and approximately 5,000 black rhinos and 21,000 white rhinos are all that prevent...

The extent to which human activity has influenced species extinctions during the recent prehistoric past remains controversial due to other factors such as climatic fluctuations and a general lack of data. However, the Holocene (the geological interval...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865476684Author Scott WeidensaulFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 311mm...

In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and imprisoned in squeeze cages, where steel catheters drain their bile as a cure for ailments ranging from upset stomach...

The worlds rhinoceroses face extinction because a part of their anatomy is valued too much. Poachers hunt and slaughter them because their horns are treasured. Once an estimated 100,000 black rhinos roamed from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope but now...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983770343Author Lucy TobiasFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Ce Tobias CompanyPublisher Ce Tobias CompanyWeight(grams) 92g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870044267Author Stephen SteubnerFormat HardbackPage Count 429Imprint Caxton PressPublisher Caxton Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998439181Author Robert Louis DemayoFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Wayward PublishingPublisher Wayward PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

The world's rhinoceroses face extinction because a part of their anatomy is valued too much. Poachers hunt and slaughter them because their horns are treasured. Once an estimated 100,000 black rhinos roamed from the Sahara to the Cape of Good Hope but...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013295652Author Gian EgeFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645333725Author Arizona RainFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Walnut & the OakPublisher Walnut & the OakWeight(grams) 191g

Life is an ambitious, exhilarating and beautifully illustrated study of animal behaviour, exploring the key groups of animals that inhabit this planet and their survival strategies. From cold-blooded reptilian killers to the armoured invaders of the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905747450Author Jay E ManchandFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint My Fat FoxPublisher My Fat FoxWeight(grams) 172gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm * 3mm