Conservation Science

For John Sutton, rest is just around the corner. Soon it will be time to sit on his porch, kick his feet up, and watch his wheat grow. All he has to do first is fight his way through a cutthroat magic competition held once every thousand years, navigating mage politics and an aggressive dragon empire bent on punishing him for Farroutef’s death.

At a time of unparalleled environmental change, there has never been a greater need for new ways of defending nature. In this forward-thinking work, Paul Jepson and Richard Ladle cover all aspects of modern conservation to provide a fascinating look into how we’re fighting for the earth’s species and habitats, as well as details on where conservation is heading, and how we can all contribute. Because it will be far more than just a pity when we lose the polar bears, pandas, and parrots.

The conservation of natural resources, like that of any other asset, involves trade-offs. Yet, in a world faced with the harsh realities of climate change, crafting the right environmental policies is an increasingly urgent task. In Conservation, Charles Perrings and Ann Kinzig bring together new research in economics and biodiversity to investigate conservation decisions and the theory behind them.

The Conservation Essentials Collection brings together six classics of American nature writing, wilderness reflection, and early conservation thought. Together these works trace a line from personal communion with nature to the broader conservation ethic that helped shape modern environmental thought.

Humans used to be embedded in the natural world, but today many of us live sedentary screen-based lives indoors, treating nature as something distant – to be watched on television or reached by flying elsewhere.

Lung es un joven dragón que vive en el Valle de los Dragones, acompañado siempre por la duende Piel de Azufre y otras criaturas fantásticas. Un día se enteran de que el valle será invadido por los hombres, es entonces que Lung decide emprender la búsqueda de la mítica Linde del Cielo, un refugio para los dragones. Durante su viaje, Lung conocerá a Ben, un pequeño huérfano que se unirá a la búsqueda y pronto se convertirá en su jinete.

The Conservation Manifesto (also known as The Fight for Conservation) is a 1910 book by Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the United States Forest Service and one of the principal architects of the American conservation movement. Gifford Pinchot argued that America’s forests, water, minerals...

Dragons, myth, and magic unite in the third installment of Cornelia Funke's bestselling Dragon Rider series. Ben and the Greenblooms must protect a mythical new creature rising from the ocean -- a creature who can bring either light or darkness to whoever it first meets. A new peril has emerged in the world of Fabulous Creatures. One that could cause the disappearance of their kind.

Spend time in the company of giant pandas with this delightful collection of stories and first-person insights about their behavior, biology, and conservation from panda expert Dr. Brandie Smith, director of the Smithsonian National Zoo. What is it about giant pandas that makes them nearly...

A spellbinding guide to the entwined evolution of humans and flowers—and what they can teach us about life The love story between flowers and humans is millions of years old. Over millennia of ecological changes and challenges, flowers have inspired us, comforted us, and taught us some of our...

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Ben, Lung y sus amigos se enfrascaron en la búsqueda de la pluma del sol de un grifo, uno de los seres fantásticos más temidos y peligrosos, para salvar a las tres crías de pegaso que existen en el mundo; por si fuera poco, van contrarreloj, pues solo tienen diez días para completar el viaje hasta las islas de Indonesia y regresar a los bosques noruegos para rescatar a los pegasos.

Una nueva amenaza se cierne sobre el mundo. La misteriosa aurelia, cantante de las profundidades marinas, es la más colosal y poderosa de todas las criaturas fabulosas. Hace más de dos mil años que esta medusa con mil brazos y cien ojos no emerge del océano, pues solo lo hace cuando la vida en el planeta está en peligro y este pide auxilio; trae consigo las semillas que entregará a cuatro seres que encarnarán a los cuatro elementos, que a su vez darán vida a otras increíbles criaturas capaces de sanar el mundo.

The image most of us have of whalers includes harpoons and intentional trauma. Yet eating commercially caught seafood leads to whales’ entanglement and slow death in rope and nets, and the global shipping routes that bring us readily available goods often lead to death by collision. We—all of us—are whalers, marine scientist and veterinarian Michael J. Moore contends. But we do not have to be.

This program includes a preface read by Meg Lowman and a foreword written and read by Sylvia Earle. Nicknamed the “Real-Life Lorax” by National Geographic, the biologist, botanist, and conservationist Meg Lowman—aka “CanopyMeg”—takes us on an adventure into the “eighth continent”...

Why social, racial, and economic justice are just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe We are facing a climate catastrophe. A plethora of studies describe the damage we’ve already done, the droughts, the wildfires, the super-storms, the melting...

Within this audiobook, you'll uncover the surprising capacity of home AC units to generate water alongside the impressive output of commercial AC systems daily and even hourly. Additionally, you'll gain insight into the distressing waste of millions of gallons of water in states facing severe shortages: California, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada.

Our world is changing, the climate is changing. Species that have long existed on our planet are disappearing and resources are becoming scarce. People are slowly realizing that development is not always good. We are exploiting our earth, but we should be looking after it, because we only have this one. Slowly, however, a rethink is taking place and people are trying to undo past mistakes. Attempts are being made to reduce CO₂ emissions, conserve the earth's resources and pay more attention to nature. But once we have become accustomed to a certain standard of living, it is difficult to give it up again or change our habits.