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'A remarkable field guide ... one of those books that come along
every now and then and cause a revolution.' Michael McCarthy
Independent This concise guide is a companion to the main Field
Guide to the Moths of Great Britain and Ireland by the same expert
authors, but is in a condensed form with artwork opposite the
species descriptions and lay-flat binding for ease of use in the
field. It includes brief but comprehensive field descriptions of
all the macro-moths in Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and
the Channel Islands, and this second edition has been thoroughly
revised and updated to reflect the latest advances in taxonomy.
Featuring more than 1,700 superbly detailed colour artworks and
covering nearly 900 species, this portable guide is an essential
addition to every moth-lover's field kit.
This is a book about delight...about love and laughter and saving
the planet, and saving money at the same time. It is about
enriching the soul and strengthening the body. It is about ducks
and how to live in harmony in a productive organic garden: building
a shed, fencing, establishing a pond or two and stocking it all
with happy, healthy ducks -- and all of it based on the author's
own experience.
Australia's varied grasslands have suffered massive losses and
changes since European settlement, and those changes continue under
increasingly intensive human pressures for development and
agricultural production. The values of native grasslands for
conservation of endemic native biodiversity, both flora and fauna,
have led to strong interests in the protection of remaining
fragments, especially near urban centres, and documentation of the
insects and other inhabitants of grasslands spanning tropical to
cool temperate parts of the country. Attention to conservation of
grassland insects in Australia is relatively recent, but it is
increasingly apparent that grasslands harbour many localised and
ecologically specialised endemic species. Their conservation
necessarily advances from very incomplete documentation, and draws
heavily on lessons from the far better-documented grasslands
elsewhere, most notably in the northern hemisphere, and undertaken
over far longer periods. From those cases, and the extensive
background to grassland management to harmonise conservation with
production and amenity values through honing use of processes such
as grazing, mowing and fire, the needs and priorities for Australia
can become clearer, together with needs for grassland restoration
at a variety of scales. This book is a broad overview of
conservation needs of grassland insects in Australia, drawing on
the background provided elsewhere in the world on the responses to
disturbances, and the ecological importance, of some key insect
groups (notably Orthoptera, Hemiptera and Lepidoptera) to suggest
how insect conservation in native, pastoral and urban grasslands
may be advanced. The substantial references given for each chapter
facilitate entry for non-entomologist grassland managers and
stewards to appreciate the diversity and importance of Australia's
grassland insects, their vulnerabilities to changes, and the
possibilities for conserving them and the wider ecological roles in
which they participate.
Whether referring to a place, a nonhuman animal or plant, or a
state of mind, wild indicates autonomy and agency, a will to be, a
unique expression of life. Yet two contrasting ideas about wild
nature permeate contemporary discussions: either that nature is
most wild in the absence of a defiling human presence, or that
nature is completely humanized and nothing is truly wild. This book
charts a different path. Exploring how people can become attuned to
the wild community of life and also contribute to the well-being of
the wild places in which we live, work, and play, Wildness brings
together esteemed authors from a variety of landscapes, cultures,
and backgrounds to share their stories about the interdependence of
everyday human lifeways and wildness. As they show, far from being
an all or nothing proposition, wildness exists in variations and
degrees that range from cultivated soils to multigenerational
forests to sunflowers pushing through cracks in a city alley.
Spanning diverse geographies, these essays celebrate the continuum
of wildness, revealing the many ways in which human communities can
nurture, adapt to, and thrive alongside their wild nonhuman kin.
From the contoured lands of Wisconsin's Driftless region to remote
Alaska, from the amazing adaptations of animals and plants living
in the concrete jungle to indigenous lands and harvest ceremonies,
from backyards to reclaimed urban industrial sites, from microcosms
to bioregions and atmospheres, manifestations of wildness are
everywhere. With this book, we gain insight into what wildness is
and could be, as well as how it might be recovered in our lives and
with it, how we might unearth a more profound, wilder understanding
of what it means to be human.
Wetlands serve many important functions and provide numerous
ecological services such as clean water, wildlife habitat, nutrient
reduction, and flood control. Wetland science is a relatively young
discipline but is a rapidly growing field due to an enhanced
understanding of the importance of wetlands and the numerous laws
and policies that have been developed to protect these areas. This
growth is demonstrated by the creation and growth of the Society of
Wetland Scientists which was formed in 1980 and now has a
membership of 3,500 people. It is also illustrated by the existence
of 2 journals ("Wetlands" and "Wetlands Ecology and Management")
devoted entirely to wetlands.
To date there has been no practical, comprehensive techniques
book centered on wetlands, and written for wetland researchers,
students, and managers. This techniques book aims to fill that gap.
It is designed to provide an overview of the various methods that
have been used or developed by researchers and practitioners to
study, monitor, manage, or create wetlands. Including many methods
usually found only in the peer-reviewed or gray literature, this
3-volume set fills a major niche for all professionals dealing with
wetlands."
In the cold waters of the unforgiving North Atlantic Ocean, some of
the heartiest humans of medieval days ventured out in search of
whales. Through the centuries, people on both sides of the Atlantic
became increasingly dependent on whale oil and other cetacean
products. To meet this growing demand, whaling became ever more
sophisticated and intense, leading to the collapse of what was once
a seemingly inexhaustible supply of large cetaceans. Central to the
whale's subsequent struggle for existence has been one species--the
North Atlantic right whale. Conservationist David W. Laist now
provides the first complete history of the North Atlantic right
whale, from its earliest encounters with humans to its close brush
with extinction, to its currently precarious yet hopeful status as
a conservation icon. Favored by whalers because of their high
yields of oil and superior baleen, these giants became known as
"the right whale to hunt," and their numbers dwindled to a mere 100
individuals worldwide. Their dire status encouraged the adoption of
a ban on hunting and a treaty that formed the International Whaling
Commission. Recovery of the species, however, has proven elusive.
Ship strikes and entanglement in commercial fishing gear have
hampered herculean efforts to restore the population. Today, only
about 500 right whales live along the US and Canadian Atlantic
coasts--an improvement from the early twentieth century, but still
a far cry from the thousands that once graced Atlantic waters.
Laist's masterpiece features an incredible collection of
photographs and artwork that give life to the fascinating history
that unfolds in its pages. The result is a single volume that
offers a comprehensive understanding of North Atlantic right
whales, the role they played in the many cultures that hunted them,
and our modern attempts to help them recover.
For more than two decades, the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, known as CITES, has
been one of the largest and most effective conservation agreements
in the world. By regulating international commerce in certain
species -- from African elephants and exotic birds to hardwoods and
bulbs -- the treaty limits trade in species that are in genuine
need of protection while allowing controlled trade in species that
can withstand some level of exploitation.In addition to explaining
how CITES operates, this definitive reference includes: the full
text of the CITES treatyCITES Appendices I, II, and III a list of
Parties as of March 1994 a list of reservations by Parties as of
October 1993 Chapters address the status of highly threatened
species such as elephants, rhinos, and tigers as well as other
heavily exploited species including parrots, primates, and
bears."International Wildlife Trade" provides a valuable overview
of wildlife trade issues, and of the strengths and weaknesses of
the current treaty.
This book brings together scientific evidence and experience
relevant to the practical conservation of wild bees. The authors
worked with an international group of bee experts and
conservationists to develop a global list of interventions that
could benefit wild bees. They range from protecting natural habitat
to controlling disease in commercial bumblebee colonies. For each
intervention, the book summarises studies captured by the
Conservation Evidence project, where that intervention has been
tested and its effects on bees quantified. The result is a thorough
guide to what is known, or not known, about the effectiveness of
bee conservation actions throughout the world. Bee Conservation is
the first in a series of synopses that will cover different species
groups and habitats, gradually building into a comprehensive
summary of evidence on the effects of conservation interventions
for all biodiversity throughout the world. By making evidence
accessible in this way, we hope to enable a change in the practice
of conservation, so it can become more evidence-based. We also aim
to highlight where there are gaps in knowledge. Evidence from all
around the world is included. If there appears to be a bias towards
evidence from northern European or North American temperate
environments, this reflects a current bias in the published
research that is available to us. Conservation interventions are
grouped primarily according to the relevant direct threats, as
defined in the International Union for the Conservation of Nature
(IUCN)'s Unified Classification of Direct Threats.
Forests host a disproportionate share of the world s biodiversity.
They are increasingly being seen as a refuge for genetic diversity,
native species, natural structures, and ecological processes. Yet,
intensive forestry threatens their value for biodiversity. The
authors present concepts, approaches and case studies illustrating
how biodiversity conservation can be integrated into forest
management planning. They address ecological patterns and processes
taking place at the scale of landscapes, or forest mosaics. This
book is intended for students and researchers in conservation
biology and natural resource management, as well as forest land
managers and policy makers. It presents examples from many forest
regions and a variety of organisms. With contributions from
researchers that are familiar with forest management and forest
managers working in partnership with researchers, this book
provides insight and concrete tools to help shape the future of
forest landscapes worldwide.
This book provides readers with a foundation in policy development
and analysis, describing how policy, including legal mechanisms,
are applied to the marine environment. It presents a systematic
treatment of all aspects of marine policy, including climate
change, energy, environmental protection, fisheries, mining and
transportation. The health of marine environments worldwide is
steadily declining, and these trends have been widely reported.
Marine Policy summarizes the importance of the ocean governance
nexus, discussing current and anticipated challenges facing marine
ecosystems, human activities, and efforts to address these threats.
This new, fully revised edition has been updated throughout,
including content to reflect the recent advances in ocean
management and international law. Chapters on shipping,
energy/mining and integrated approaches to ocean management have
been significantly reworked, plus completely new chapters on the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and the impacts of
climate change have been added. Pedagogical features for students
are included throughout. Aligned with current course offerings,
this book is an ideal introduction for undergraduates and graduate
students taking marine affairs, science and policy courses.
This book presents a collection of practitioner and community
stories that reveal how invasive species management is a community
issue that can spark community formation and collective action. It
combines the unique first-person narratives of practitioners on the
frontline of invasive species management in Australia with three
case studies of community action for wild dog management across a
range of geographical landscapes. The book offers readers a new
understanding of how communities are formed in the context of
managing different species, and how fundamental social and
political processes can make or break landholders' ability to
manage invasive species. Using narrative analysis of practitioner
profiles and community groups, drawing lessons from real-world
practices, and employing theories from community development, rural
sociology and collective action, this book serves multiple
functions: it offers a teaching tool, a valuable research
contribution, and a practitioner's field guide to pursuing
effective community development work in connection with natural
resource management, wildlife management and environmental
governance.
A fierce, poignant and highly original memoir about sexuality,
shame and the lure of the trees 'A brave and beautiful book,
electrifying on sex and nature, religion and love. No one is
writing quite like this. I'm so glad Luke Turner exists' OLIVIA
LAING, author of THE LONELY CITY and CRUDO 'Refreshing, frank,
edifying, courageous . . . I was quite emotional by the end. Luke
Turner is a serious thinker and a unique and important new voice'
AMY LIPTROT, author of THE OUTRUN After the disintegration of the
most significant relationship of his life, the demons Luke Turner
has been battling since childhood are quick to return - depression
and guilt surrounding his identity as a bisexual man, experiences
of sexual abuse, and the religious upbringing that was the cause of
so much confusion. It is among the trees of London's Epping Forest
where he seeks refuge. But once a place of comfort, it now seems
full of unexpected, elusive threats that trigger twisted reactions.
No stranger to compulsion, Luke finds himself drawn again and again
to the woods, eager to uncover the strange secrets that may be
buried there as he investigates an old family rumour of illicit
behaviour. Away from a society that still struggles to cope with
the complexities of masculinity and sexuality, Luke begins to
accept the duality that has provoked so much unrest in his life -
and reconcile the expectations of others with his own way of being.
OUT OF THE WOODS is a dazzling, devastating and highly original
memoir about the irresistible yet double-edged potency of the
forest, and the possibility of learning to find peace in the grey
areas of life.
Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, this book highlights current
challenges in, and potential solutions to, environmental water
management in Mexico. It includes an essential review of current
literature and state of the art research, providing a one-stop
resource for researchers, graduate students and environmental water
managers alike. The result of a cooperation between 35 researchers
from seven Mexican academic institutions, two Federal Commissions
and one international organization, the book links science to
practice for living organisms and their environment, while also
addressing anthropogenic effects on our water ecosystems.
Particularly the book addresses the following subjects:
Biodiversity in inland waters, physical and chemical
characterization of inland waters, physico-chemical
characterization of Mexican coastal lagoons, microbiota in brackish
ecosystems, diversity associated with southern Mexico's pacific
coral reefs, fry fish stockings in aquatic epicontinental systems,
a review of tuna fisheries in Mexico, fishery resource management
challenges stemming from climate change, aquatic invasive alien
species, harmful algal blooms, and aquatic protected areas, related
ecological and social problems and the importance for fisheries'
yield.
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