State of the Wild 2008-2009
A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans
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State of the Wild is a biennial series that brings together international conservation experts and writers to discuss emerging issues in the conservation of wildlife and wild places.
Each volume in the series combines evocative writings with a fascinating tour of conservation news highlights and vital statistics from around the world. One-third of each volume focuses on a topic of particular concern to conservationists working to protect wildlife and our last wild places. This 2008–2009 edition considers the integration of wildlife health, ecosystem health, human health, and the health of domestic animals—a “One World–One Health” approach to disease and conservation.
This focus is complemented with essays clustered into sections that address other key issues—conservation of species; conservation of wild places; people, culture, and conservation; and the art and practice of conservation. Essays cover a broad range of topics, from restoring biodiversity on the prairies to mapping the state of the oceans to the conservation impacts of lawlessness and coca cultivation in Colombia. Essay contributions come from people directly involved in on-the-ground conservation efforts and offer a unique and valuable perspective on often-overlooked topics.
State of the Wild’s accessible approach educates a wide range of audiences while at the same time presenting leading-edge scientific overviews of hot topics in conservation. Uniquely structured with magazine-like features up front, conservation news in the middle, and essays from eminent authors and experienced scientists throughout, this landmark series is an essential addition to any environmental bookshelf.
By the numbers: Emerging Diseases and Conservation
Foreword: The Value of Conservation
Introduction Future States of the Wild
Part I: State of the Wild
1.Tipping Point: Perspective of a Climatologist
2.Discoveries
3.The Rarest of the Rare: Some of the World’s Most Endangered Animals
4.Continuing to Consume Wildlife: An Update
Part II: Focus on the Wild
5.Emerging Diseases and Conservation: One World—One Health
6.Little Is Big, Many Is One: Zoonoses in the Twenty-first Century
7.Land-Use Change as a Driver of Disease
8.Transboundary Management of Natural Resources and the Importance of a “One Health” Approach: Perspectives on Southern Africa
9.An Ounce of Prevention: Lessons from the First Avian Influenza Scare
10.Why Wildlife Health Matters in North America
11.Warming Oceans, Increasing Disease: Mapping the Health Effects of Climate Change
12.Conservation Controversy, To Cull or Not to Cull?
Part III: Emerging Issues in the Wild
13.The Last of the Great Overland Migrations
14.Downward Spiral, Catastrophic Decline of South Asia’s Vultures
15.Conserving Cold-Blooded Australians
16. Settling for Less, Disappearing Diadromous Fishes
17.Mapping the State of the Oceans
18.Africa’s Last Wild Places, Why Conservation Can’t Wait
19.The Deep Sea: Unknown and Under Threat
20.Climate Change in the Andes
21.Grazers and Grasslands: Restoring Biodiversity to the Prairies
22.Conservation and Human Displacement
23.Conservation Psychology: Who Cares about the Biodiversity Crisis?
24.Biogenetics and Conservation: Celebrate or Worry?
25.Conservation in Conflict: Illegal Drugs Versus Habitat in the Americas
26.Rewilding the Islands
27.Addressing AIDS: Conservation in Africa
28.Conservation as Diplomacy, Steven E. Sanderson
Final Thoughts
Profession: Awajun, Walter H. Wust
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