Books by Eric Dinerstein

  •  Discovering Big Cat Country

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    Discovering Big Cat Country

    On the trail of tigers and snow leopards

    Eric Dinerstein

    With their elusive and solitary nature, tigers and snow leopards are a challenge for even the most seasoned field biologists to track and study. Yet scientist and conservation leader Eric Dinerstein ...

  •  Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar

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    Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar

    A Conservation Assessment

    Michele Thieme

    As part of a global effort to identify those areas where conservation measures are needed most urgently, World Wildlife Fund has assembled teams of scientists to conduct ecological assessments of all ...

  •  Freshwater Ecoregions of North America

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    Freshwater Ecoregions of North America

    A Conservation Assessment

    Caroline (Lynne) Taylor

    North America's freshwater habitats and the extraordinary biodiversity they contain are facing unprecedented threats from a range of sources, including flow alteration, habitat fragmentation, ...

  •  Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar

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    Terrestrial Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar

    A Conservation Assessment

    Neil Burgess

    As part of a global effort to identify those areas where conservation measures are needed most urgently, World Wildlife Fund has assembled teams of scientists to conduct ecological assessments of all ...

  •  Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America

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    Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America

    A Conservation Assessment

    Caroline (Lynne) Taylor

    Lauded in the New York Times science section as "a sweeping analysis of the ecosystems of the United States and Canada," this volume represents an unparalleled source of information and data for ...

  •  Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific

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    Terrestrial Ecoregions of the Indo-Pacific

    A Conservation Assessment

    Eric Wikramanayake

    "This book, along with its companions in this series, takes an ecoregional approach, dividing large regions into small, distinct units, each with its characteristic species, ecosystems, natural history ...

  •  Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations

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    Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations

    Eric Dinerstein

    In 1972, Eric Dinerstein was in film school at Northwestern University, with few thoughts of nature, let alone tiger-filled jungles at the base of the Himalayas or the antelope-studded Serengeti plain. ...

  • The Kingdom of Rarities
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    The Kingdom of Rarities

    Eric Dinerstein

    In The Kingdom of Rarities, scientist Eric Dinerstein poses an intriguing question: What if the way we categorized the living world was reshuffled for a moment, from a system designed to inform us ...

About the Author

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Eric Dinerstein is Lead Scientist and Vice President for Conservation Science at the World Wildlife Fund. His areas of specialty include tropical mammals, large mammal biology, biogeography, bats, rhinos, seed dispersal, and community ecology.
 
With the World Wildlife Fund, he has led many of the organization's most important scientific projects, including the Global 200 Ecoregions, examples of which form the basis of Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations. Dinerstein is also the author of Last of the Unicorns: The Natural History of Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros, among other articles and publications.
 
He attended Northwestern University and Western Washington University, and did his post-graduate studies at the University of Washington (Organization of Tropical Studies) and the National Zoological Park's Conservation and Research Center.

Events for Author

The Kingdom of Rarities
Jan 27, 2013 1:00 PM

5015 Connecticut Ave. NW

Washington, DC 20008

 

In a startling thought experiment, Dinerstein, lead scientist with the World Wildlife Fund, proposes that we split the animal kingdom into two groups: the common and the rare. This perspective makes clearer not just which species are suffering recent population declines and which have always been sparse, but shows where and why declines are likely to occur—and what can be done about it.