Primates - The Road to Self-Sustaining Populations (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)

This conference represents the first time in my life when I felt it was a misfor tune, rather than a major cause of my happiness, that I do conservation work in New Guinea. Yes, it is true that New Guinea is a fascinating microcosm, it has fascinating birds and people, and it has large expanses of undisturbed rainforest. In the course of my work there, helping the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund set up a comprehensive national park system, I have been able to study animals in areas without any human population. But New Guinea has one serious drawback: it has no primates, except for humans. Thus, I come to this conference on primate conservation as an underprivileged and emotionally deprived observer, rather than as an involved participant. Nevertheless, it is easy for anyone to become interested in primate conserva tion. The public cares about primates. More specifically, to state things more realistically, many people care some of the time about some primates. Primates are rivaled only by birds, pandas, and the big cats in their public appeal. For some other groups of animals, the best we can say is that few people care about them, infrequently. For most groups of animals, no one cares about them, ever.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Proceedings in Life Sciences
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1986
Foreword by:	Jared Diamond
Editors:	Kurt Benirschke
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 53mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	1044
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
ISBN-13:	978-1-4612-9360-6
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Agricultural science Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Cellular biology > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4612-9360-X
Barcode:	9781461293606

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