Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 300 p. Antelopes constitute a fundamental part of ecosystems throughout Africa and Asia where they act as habitat architects, dispersers of seeds, and prey for large carnivores. The fascication they hold in the human mind is evident from prehistoric rock paintings and ancient Egyptian art to today's wildlife documentaries and popularity in zoos. In...
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 416 p. Drawing on six case studies of wolf, grizzly bear, and mountain lion conservation in habitats stretching from the Yukon to Arizona, Large Carnivore Conservation argues that conserving and coexisting with large carnivores is as much a problem of people and governance - of reconciling diverse and sometimes conflicting values,...
University Press of Colorado, 1997. — 231 p. From the days when approximately sixty million bison ranged over most of the continental U.S. and into Canada and Mexico, to its near extinction due to mindless slaughter during the westward expansion of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, the American bison remains both a national symbol of strength and freedom, and of shame and...
University Press of Colorado, 1997. — 231 p. From the days when approximately sixty million bison ranged over most of the continental U.S. and into Canada and Mexico, to its near extinction due to mindless slaughter during the westward expansion of the mid- and late-nineteenth century, the American bison remains both a national symbol of strength and freedom, and of shame and...
IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Switzerland. 1988 - 96 p. Antelope herds numbering in the tens of thousands formerly occurred across the steppes and semideserts of Eurasia and India, but these have nearly all been reduced to fractions of their earlier size; antelope populations are now fragmented across the region, and during recent decades several species have disappeared...
IUCN - The World Conservation Union, Switzerland. 1989 - 96 p. Antelope herds numbering in the tens of thousands formerly occurred across the steppes and semideserts of Eurasia and India, but these have nearly all been reduced to fractions of their earlier size; antelope populations are now fragmented across the region, and during recent decades several species have disappeared...
UCN, Gland, Switzerland. 1990 - 171 p. Antelope herds numbering in the tens of thousands formerly occurred across the steppes and semideserts of Eurasia and India, but these have nearly all been reduced to fractions of their earlier size; antelope populations are now fragmented across the region, and during recent decades several species have disappeared altogether. Threats...
University of Texas Press, 2008. — 176 p. The coyote may well be North America's most adaptable large predator. While humans have depleted or eliminated most other native predators, the coyote has defied all attempts to exterminate it, simultaneously expanding its range from coast to coast and from wilderness to urban areas. As a result, coyotes are becoming the focus of...
Island Press, 2005. — 312 p. — ISBN: 1-55963-532-0. Richard Ellis, one of the world's foremost experts in wildlife extinction, brings his alarm to the pages of Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn, in the hope that through an exposure of this drug trade, something can be done to save the animals most direly threatened. Trade in animal parts for traditional Chinese medicine is a leading...
Bloomsbury Wildlife, 2018. — 304 p. The 2015 killing of a much-loved lion called Cecil by an American big-game hunter in Zimbabwe sparked international outrage. It also drew world attention to shrinking numbers of the 'king of the beasts' and and the facts that humans continue to hunt them for sport. There are no lions left north of the Sahara and their range in southern Africa...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2005. — 368 p. Although the American bison was saved from near-extinction in the nineteenth century, today almost all herds are managed like livestock. The Yellowstone area is the only place in the United States where wild bison have been present since before the first Euro-Americans arrived. But these bison pose risks to property and people when...
Intl Union for Conservation, 1990. — 120 p. The new Canid Action Plan synthesizes the current knowledge on the biology, ecology and status of all wild canid species, and outlines the conservation actions and projects needed to secure their long-term survival.
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 296 p. — (Illustrations by Velizar Simeonovski). The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island’s baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar’s mammal fauna, for example, is far more diverse, and...
University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 296 p. — (Illustrations by Velizar Simeonovski). The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island’s baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar’s mammal fauna, for example, is far more diverse, and...
2nd edition. — World Conservation Union, 1991. — 406 p. — (IUCN/SSC Action Plans for the Conservation of Biological Div.) Presents the most comprehensive and up-to-date information available on the 36 wild cats of the world. It includes the first published collection of detailed range maps and some of the first photographs of rare species in the wild. It provides a thorough...
IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. 2001 - 268 p. Antelope herds numbering in the tens of thousands formerly occurred across the steppes and semideserts of Eurasia and India, but these have nearly all been reduced to fractions of their earlier size; antelope populations are now fragmented across the region, and during recent decades several species have disappeared...
University Of Chicago, 2010. — 548 p. Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions have relied on Wild Mammals in Captivity as the essential reference for their work. Now the book reemerges in a completely updated second edition. Wild Mammals in Captivity presents the most current...
Gland: IUCN, 1988. — 155 p. This volume provides the most comprehensive review available of the conservation status of African primates. Thirty species, comprising over 50% of the primate fauna of the continent, have been identified as threatened, ranging from the little-known Angwantibo to the gorilla and chimpanzee. For each species a detailed account is provided, with...
Regan Arts, 2018. — 288 p. In 2015, an American hunter named Walter Palmer shot and killed a lion named Cecil. The lion was one of dozens slain each year in Zimbabwe, which legally licenses the hunting of big cats. But Cecil’s death sparked unprecedented global outrage, igniting thousands of media reports about the peculiar circumstances surrounding this hunt. At the center of...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 784 p. The editors utilize their 50 years of combined experience in professional engagement with the behaviour and ecology of wild felids to draw together a unique network of the world's most respected and knowledgeable experts. For the first time, this inter-disciplinary research programme is brought together within a single volume. Beginning...
Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2015. — 296 p. — ISBN13: 978-0807074961. Many people think wild tigers are on the road to recovery, but they are in greater danger than ever — from a menace few experts saw coming. There may be only three thousand wild tigers left in the entire world. More shocking is the fact that twice that many — some six thousand — have been bred on farms, not for...
IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG), International Primatological Society (IPS), and Conservation International (CI), 2009. — 85 p. The world’s 25 most endangered primates have been revealed in a new report released today at the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity COP11. Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2008–2010 has been compiled by the...
IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, International Primatological Society, Conservation International, and Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation, 2012. — 96 p. The world’s 25 most endangered primates have been revealed in a new report released today at the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity COP11. Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2012–2014...
IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group (PSG), International Primatological Society (IPS), and Conservation International (CI), 2015. — 93 p. The world’s 25 most endangered primates have been revealed in a new report released today at the UN’s Convention on Biological Diversity COP11. Primates in Peril: The World’s 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2014–2016 has been compiled by the...
UBC Press, 2018. — 278 p. In the 1990s, headlines about declining caribou populations grabbed international attention. Were caribou the canary in the coal mine for climate change, or did declining numbers reflect overharvesting or failed attempts at scientific wildlife management? Grounded in community-based research in northern Canada, a region in the forefront of...
Vladivostok: DalNauka, 2010. — 104 p. The problems associated with conserving large felids in the wild are becoming more and more severe. The Amur tiger – a unique representative of the Asian faunal complex – is today only well protected in the southern Russian Far East. The book is more than a half century of experience in the study and conservation of the Amur tiger in Russia...
2nd edition. — World Conservation Union, 1999. — 444 p. Although most antelope species still exist in large numbers in sub-Saharan Africa (some in hundreds of thousands), up to three-quarters of the species are in decline. Threats to their survival arise from the rapid growth of human and livestock populations, with consequent degradation and destruction of natural habitats,...
St. Martin's Griffin, 2011 — 338 p. — e-ISBN: 978-1429938648. In October 1988 an Inuit hunter saw three grey whales trapped in the frozen Arctic ocean near Barrow, an isolated Alaskan outpost. They were working together to keep their blow hole open, the two adolescents caring for the weaker baby. It was a poignant sight. Filmed by a local television reporter, this tiny regional...
Moscow: KMK Scientific Press Ltd., 2019. — 138 p. This monograph provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the available literature on the monitoring of big cats. Special attention is paid to the most up-to-date methods based on recent advances in technology, resulting in useful tools to remotely and noninvasively study animals in natural habitats, essential when working...
IUCN, 1989. — 99 p. Both Mustelidae and Viverridae are extraordinarily diverse families of mammals, and include species adapted to terrestrial, aquatic,fossorial, and arboreal life. They have diversified into a variety of biological roles: some, such as the fossa (Cryptoproctaferox), are carnivores; others, such as the fanalouc (Eupleres), are specialized earthworm feeders; and...
Routledge, 2019. — 234 p. This book places lion conservation and the relationship between people and lions both in historical context and in the context of the contemporary politics of conservation in Africa. The killing of Cecil the Lion in July 2015 brought such issues to the public’s attention. Were lions threatened in the wild and what was the best form of conservation? How...
Skyhorse, 2019. — 184 p. The Yellowstone grizzly population has grown from an estimated 136 bears when first granted federal protection as a threatened species to as many as 1,000 grizzlies in a tri-state region today. No longer limited to remote wilderness areas, grizzlies now roam throughout the region - in state parks, school playgrounds, residential subdivisions, on farms...
Coronet Books Incorporated, 2005. — 431 p. This book tells a comprehensive story of the extinct aurochs (Bos primigenius), the wild ancestor of our domestic cattle, and of what is still left of it. Not only until its extinction in 1627, the aurochs, because of its appearance and nature, had left a deep impression on people, but also afterwards this bovine species, due to scanty...
University of Washington Press, 2008. — 360 p. Many Japanese once revered the wolf as Oguchi no Magami, or Large-Mouthed Pure God, but as Japan began its modern transformation wolves lost their otherworldly status and became noxious animals that needed to be killed. By 1905 they had disappeared from the country. In this spirited and absorbing narrative, Brett Walker takes a...
Wiley, 2007. — 239 p. — ISBN: 978-1-405-15779-7. "In defense of dolphins. The new moral frontier" is a groundbreaking book in which philosopher Thomas White argues that the scientific evidence is now strong enough to support the claim that dolphins are, like humans, self-aware, intelligent beings with emotions, personalities and the capacity to control their actions....
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