| Description |
xvi, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Note |
"Hunting and the wildlife trade." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-305) and index. |
| Contents |
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 -- pt. 1. State of the wild -- Gold 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 -- The rarest of the rare : some of the world's most endangered animals / Michael Berens -- pt. 2. Global news highlights -- 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 -- pt. 3. Hunting and the wildlife trade -- Setting the scene / Elizabeth L. Bennett and Sharon Guynup -- A 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 -- |
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pt. 4. Conservation controversies -- 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 -- Point-counterpoint -- 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 Davis -- 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 -- pt. 5. Wildlife -- 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 -- The gathering wave of ocean extinctions / Ellen K. Pikitch -- Conservation strategies for colonial and social species / William Conway -- pt. 6. Wildlands and oceans -- The land the wilderness act forgot / Rick Bass -- Marine protected areas : can we rebuild marine ecosystems by closing areas to fishing? / Callum M. Roberts -- |
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pt. 7. People and culture -- Culturally determined wildlife populations : the problem of the designer ark / Bill Weber -- pt. 8. The art and practice of conservation -- Conservation and conflict : the importance of continuing conservation work during political upheaval and armed conflict / Peter Zahler -- Neither war or peace : protected areas still at risk in DR Congo, 2005 / John Hart -- The destruction of Iraq's wetlands and impacted 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index. |
| Subject |
Wildlife conservation.
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Wildlife conservation. |
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Endangered species.
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Endangered species. |
| Added Author |
Guynup, Sharon.
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Wildlife Conservation Society (New York, N.Y.)
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| ISBN |
1597260010 paperback |
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9781597260015 paperback |
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1597260002 |
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9781597260008 |
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