The Last Extinction

  • [[bookjacket|The Last Extinction]]
  • Title

    • The Last Extinction
  • Attribution

    edited by Les Kaufman and Kenneth Mallory
  • Format

    Book
  • Published

    1986
  • Availability

    [[availability|tl34696000039151]]
  • Call Number

    • 333.95 KAU
  • Description and Reviews

    Environmentalist Norman Myers has added a new chapter on whales to this edition to address the critical issue of habitat destruction (which for whales involves over 70% of the Earth) from a host of insults. With the exception of David Ehrenfeld's eloquent plea for environmental stewardship, the other essays have been updated to incorporate new information and perspectives. Mass Extinctions: New Answers' New Questions, David Jablonski. summarized from Amazon.com [[reviews|asin=]]
  • Authors

  • Subject

  • Notes

    • Based on a public lecture series, “Extinction: saving the sinking ark,” held in Boston at the New England Aquarium during fall 1984.
  • 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.
  • ISBN

    • 0262111152
  • LCCN

    • 86007347

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