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State of the wild 2006: a global portrait of wildlife, wildlands, and oceans
Publisher
Island Press
Publication Date
c2005
Language
English
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From the Book
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.
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9781597260015
9781597260008
9781597260008
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