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Saving Turtles: A Kid´s Guide to Helping Endangered Creatures
Sue Carstairs
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Description for Saving Turtles: A Kid´s Guide to Helping Endangered Creatures
Paperback. A behind-the-scenes look at a hospital for severely injured turtles and how scientists and volunteers around the world are helping to protect them. Num Pages: 64 pages, 75 full-colour photos, maps and charts. BIC Classification: YNNR; YXZG. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 229 x 230 x 6. Weight in Grams: 264.
A behind-the-scenes look at a hospital for severely injured turtles. Turtles have been around for 220 million years - longer than dinosaurs. But now their time might be running out. Of the roughly 300 species worldwide, more than half are threatened with extinction. Freshwater, marine and land turtles are all affected. And their biggest threat is us! As the human race grows and expands on the planet, turtles are losing their homes, suffering the effects of pollution, the pet and food trade, killed by cars as they try to cross roads, and snared in fishing nets or by fish hooks ... Read more
A behind-the-scenes look at a hospital for severely injured turtles. Turtles have been around for 220 million years - longer than dinosaurs. But now their time might be running out. Of the roughly 300 species worldwide, more than half are threatened with extinction. Freshwater, marine and land turtles are all affected. And their biggest threat is us! As the human race grows and expands on the planet, turtles are losing their homes, suffering the effects of pollution, the pet and food trade, killed by cars as they try to cross roads, and snared in fishing nets or by fish hooks ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Firefly Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
263g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Ontario, Canada
ISBN
9781770852907
SKU
V9781770852907
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Sue Carstairs
Sue Carstairs BSc, DVM is the executive director and medical director at the Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre. She also teaches veterinary science at Seneca College.
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