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Author: Alexis Schwarzenbach
Publisher: Profile Books(GB)
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781846685309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The lavishly illustrated story of the World Wildlife Fund, the world's largest environmental organization.
Author: Elan Abrell
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1452961921
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A fascinating and unprecedented ethnography of animal sanctuaries in the United States In the past three decades, animal rights advocates have established everything from elephant sanctuaries in Africa to shelters that rehabilitate animals used in medical testing, to homes for farmed animals, abandoned pets, and entertainment animals that have outlived their “usefulness.” Saving Animals is the first major ethnography to focus on the ethical issues animating the establishment of such places, where animals who have been mistreated or destined for slaughter are allowed to live out their lives simply being animals. Based on fieldwork at animal rescue facilities across the United States, Elan Abrell asks what “saving,” “caring for,” and “sanctuary” actually mean. He considers sanctuaries as laboratories where caregivers conceive and implement new models of caring for and relating to animals. He explores the ethical decision making around sanctuary efforts to unmake property-based human–animal relations by creating spaces in which humans interact with animals as autonomous subjects. Saving Animals illustrates how caregivers and animals respond by cocreating new human–animal ecologies adapted to the material and social conditions of the Anthropocene. Bridging anthropology with animal studies and political philosophy, Saving Animals asks us to imagine less harmful modes of existence in a troubled world where both animals and humans seek sanctuary.
Author: Bernard Stonehouse
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780026147507
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Twenty success stories of the World Wildlife Fund's efforts to save endangered species detail the animals, their habitats, and the hazards that threaten them
Author: Steve Winter
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1426212402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A National Geographic photographer embarks on a one-man mission to address the plight of the tiger before it's too late.
Author: Julie Scardina
Publisher: Running Press
Published: 2012-03-06
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0762445165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With one-third of known species being threatened with extinction, wildlife conservationists are some of the most important heroes on the planet, and Wildlife Heroes profiles the work of 40 of the leading conservationists and the animals and causes they are committed to saving, such as Belinda Low (zebras), Iain Douglas-Hamilton (elephants), Karen Eckert (sea turtles), S.T. Wong (sun bear), Steve Galster (wildlife trade), and Wangari Maathai (habitat loss). Since we all should have an interest in conservation, there is a chapter providing information on ways people can get involved and make a difference. Chapter introductions are by author Kuki Gallmann, actor Ted Danson, actress Stefanie Powers, Congressman Jay Inslee, and TV personality Jack Hanna.
Author: Alvin Powell
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2008-03-12
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 081174129X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →• Real-life scientific adventure • A thought-provoking exploration of how the Endangered Species Act works--and how it fails Thirty years ago, researchers discovered a previously unknown species of bird in the rain-soaked and remote mountains of Hawaii. As they studied the creature--which sported a black mask and was called the po'ouli--they soon learned that its population was shrinking quickly, and they worked frantically to find out what was killing the species and how they might prevent its extinction. This fast-paced account of their work, done in one of the world's most inhospitable environments, describes a stirring fight for survival. It also illustrates the challenge of protecting endangered species in a rapidly changing world.
Author: Marilyn Baillie
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781445106939
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Join scientists on a journey of discovery to study and protect the world's most extraordinary and endangered animals.
Author: Jeff Sebo
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0190861010
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 2020, COVID-19, the Australia bushfires, and other global threats served as vivid reminders that human and nonhuman fates are increasingly linked. Human use of nonhuman animals contributes to pandemics, climate change, and other global threats which, in turn, contribute to biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and nonhuman suffering. Jeff Sebo argues that humans have a moral responsibility to include animals in global health and environmental policy. In particular, we should reduce our use of animals as part of our pandemic and climate change mitigation efforts and increase our support for animals as part of our adaptation efforts. Applying and extending frameworks such as One Health and the Green New Deal, Sebo calls for reducing support for factory farming, deforestation, and the wildlife trade; increasing support for humane, healthful, and sustainable alternatives; and considering human and nonhuman needs holistically. Sebo also considers connections with practical issues such as education, employment, social services, and infrastructure, as well as with theoretical issues such as well-being, moral status, political status, and population ethics. In all cases, he shows that these issues are both important and complex, and that we should neither underestimate our responsibilities because of our limitations, nor underestimate our limitations because of our responsibilities. Both an urgent call to action and a survey of what ethical and effective action requires, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves is an invaluable resource for scholars, advocates, policy-makers, and anyone interested in what kind of world we should attempt to build and how.
Author: Joel Sartore
Publisher: National Geographic Photo Ark
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1426220596
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Celebrated National Geographic photojournalist Sartore continues his Photo Ark quest, photographing species around the world that are escaping extinction thanks to human efforts. The animals featured in these pages are either destined for extinction or already extinct in the wild but still alive today, thanks to dedication of a heroic group committed to their continued survival.l.
Author: William Stolzenburg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2011-06-28
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1608191036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chronicles the highly controversial practice of rescuing endangered island species by killing their predators, explaining how rats and other animals introduced to the Bering Sea midway by shipwrecks have decimated native bird populations.
