State of the wild 2006: a global portrait of wildlife, wildlands, and oceans

By the numbers : hunted, traded, and eaten into extinction / Sharon Guynup

Foreword : a brief history of state of the wild / Kent H. Redford

Introduction : wildlife, wildlands, and oceans / Sharon Guynup

Gold or flowers : one view on the state of the wild / George B. Schaller

Mapping the wild : the human footprint / Eric W. Sanderson

Discoveries / Bijal Trivedi

New conservation methods and technologies / Ken Kostel

Regulating the wild / Ken Kostel

rarest of the rare : some of the world's most endangered animals / Michael Berens

Africa / Ken Kostel

Asia / Ken Kostel

Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands / Ken Kostel

Central and South America / Jesse Chapman-Bruschini

Europe / Jesse Chapman-Bruschini

Middle East and North Africa / Ken Kostel

North America / Jesse Chapman-Bruschini

Oceans / Bijal Trivedi

Polar regions / Jesse Chapman-Bruschini

Setting the scene / Elizabeth L. Bennett and Sharon Guynup

short history of hunting in North America / Ted Kerasote

Consuming wildlife in the tropics / Elizabeth L. Bennett

Wildlife trade within East Asia : supply and demand for traditional Oriental medicine / James Compton and Samuel K. H. Lee

Twine and the ancient mariners : albatrosses, sea turtles, and fishing gear encounters / Carl Safina, Eric Gilman and Wallace J. Nichols

Ebola, SARS, and other diseases that imperil people and animals / Robert A. Cook and William B. Karesh

Hunting for conservation in the Amazon rain forests : lessons learned from Peru / Richard Bodmer

Let them eat cake? : some skeptical thoughts on conservation strategies in the bushmeat range states / David Brown

Biting the hand that feeds you : the consumption of nature and natural resources in the tropics / John Robinson

Response to John Robinson : postindustrial conservation ideals and real-world politics / David Brown

Response to David Brown : the view from Versailles contrasts with local reality / John Robinson

Comments on Brown vs. Robinson : bushmeat trade : thoughts from "the coast" / Glyn Davies

Through the looking glass : the tragedy of depleting wildlife resources : a response to John Robinson and David Brown / Kathy MacKinnon

Let them eat LSD bushmeat : thoughts arising from Brown vs. Robinson / Ian Redmond

Listening to the birds / Joseph Tobias, Leon Bennun and Alison Stattersfield

Species in focus : saving jaguars throughout their range : from theory to practice / Alan Rabinowitz

Climate change and the wild : into the great unknown / Glenn Scherer

gathering wave of ocean extinctions / Ellen K. Pikitch

Conservation strategies for colonial and social species / William Conway

land the wilderness act forgot / Rick Bass

Marine protected areas : can we rebuild marine ecosystems by closing areas to fishing? / Callum M. Roberts

Culturally determined wildlife populations : the problem of the designer ark / Bill Weber

Conservation and conflict : the importance of continuing conservation work during political upheaval and armed conflict / Peter Zahler

Neither war nor peace : protected areas still at risk in DR Congo, 2005 / John Hart

destruction of Iraq's wetlands and impacts on biodiversity / David Jensen, Hassan Partow and Chizuru Aoki

Captive breeding : miracle under fire / Dan Wharton

Can tropical forests be managed for timber production and wildlife protection? / Francis E. Putz

What falls through the cracks in conservation strategies? : interviews with Sylvia Earle and Thomas Lovejoy / Sharon Guynup

Afterword : the relative wild / Bill McKibben.