Title The Last extinction / edited by Les Kaufman and Kenneth Mallory.

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : Published in cooperation with the New England Aquarium [by] the MIT Press, [1986]
	©1986

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	QH75 .L36 1986	Available	---

Description	ix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note	Based on a public lecture series, "Extinction: saving the sinking ark," held in Boston at the New England Aquarium during fall 1984.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents	Why the ark is sinking / Les Kaufman -- Mass extinctions / David Jablonski -- The Amazon : paradise lost? / Ghillean T. Prance -- Vanishing species in our own backyard : extinct fish and wildlife of the United States and Canada / James D. Williams and Ronald M. Nowak -- Riders of the last ark : the role of captive breeding in conservation strategies / Thomas J. Foose -- Life in the next millennium : who will be left in earth's community? / David Ehrenfeld.
Subject	Nature conservation.
	Nature conservation.
	Wildlife conservation.
	Wildlife conservation.
	Extinction (Biology)
	Extinction (Biology)
Added Author	Kaufman, Les.
	Mallory, Kenneth.
	New England Aquarium Corporation.