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Wild Hope

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Description for Wild Hope Paperback. Takes readers to extraordinary places to meet conservation's heroes and foot soldiers - and to discover the new ideas they are generating about how to make conservation work. In this title, the journey starts in the floodplains of Assam, where rangers and villagers have together helped bring Indian rhinos back from the brink of extinction. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 164 x 15. Weight in Grams: 394.
Wild Hope takes readers to extraordinary places to meet conservation's heroes and foot soldiers - and to discover the new ideas they are generating about how to make conservation work on our hungry and crowded planet. The journey starts in the floodplains of Assam, where dedicated rangers and exceptionally tolerant villagers have together helped bring Indian rhinos back from the brink of extinction. In the pine forests of the Carolinas, we learn why plantation owners came to resent rare woodpeckers-and what persuaded them to change their minds. In South Africa, Andrew Balmford investigates how invading alien plants have been drinking ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
394g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226036014
SKU
V9780226036014
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Andrew Balmford
Andrew Balmford is professor of conservation science in the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge. He is coeditor of Conservation in a Changing World, and he lives in Ely, England, with his wife, two sons, and a lot of animals.

Reviews for Wild Hope
"In beautiful prose, Balmford takes us on an expedition to six continents where he interviews the people behind the successes and comes up with their defining characteristics. People are ultimately responsible for destroying nature through overharvesting, direct destruction, and toxification, but people are also those who can, and must, reverse the decline." (Los Angeles Review of Books) "Balmford... writes beautifully, ... Read more

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