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Queensland's threatened animals
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ISBN: 128012847X 9786613532350 0643104569 0643104577 9780643104563 9780643104570 9781280128479 9780643096141 0643096140 Year: 2011 Publisher: Collingwood, Vic. CSIRO Pub.

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A comprehensive and practical guide to Queensland's threatened animals.


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Cloning wild life
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ISBN: 0814729096 9780814729090 9780814729083 0814729088 9781479836383 1479836389 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York

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The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are also working to actively shape this natural world through contemporary bioscience and biotechnology. In Cloning Wild Life, Carrie Friese posits that cloned endangered animals in zoos sit at the apex of these two trends, as humans seek a scientific solution to environmental crisis. Often fraught with controversy, cloning technologies, Friese argues, significantly affect our conceptualizations of and engagements with wildlife and nature. By studying animals at different locations, Friese explores the human practices surrounding the cloning of endangered animals. She visits zoos—the San Diego Zoological Park, the Audubon Center in New Orleans, and the Zoological Society of London—to see cloning and related practices in action, as well as attending academic and medical conferences and interviewing scientists, conservationists, and zookeepers involved in cloning. Ultimately, she concludes that the act of recalibrating nature through science is what most disturbs us about cloning animals in captivity, revealing that debates over cloning become, in the end, a site of political struggle between different human groups. Moreover, Friese explores the implications of the social role that animals at the zoo play in the first place—how they are viewed, consumed, and used by humans for our own needs. A unique study uniting sociology and the study of science and technology, Cloning Wild Life demonstrates just how much bioscience reproduces and changes our ideas about the meaning of life itself.


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Alabama wildlife.
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ISBN: 0817391460 9780817391461 9780817319618 0817319611 Year: 2017 Publisher: Tuscaloosa

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Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 offers a comprehensive update and provides a wealth of new information concerning changes and developments relative to the conservation status of wild animal populations of the state that have occurred in the decade since publication of the previous four volumes in 2004. Enhancements include the addition of any new or rediscovered taxon, species priority status changes, and taxonomic changes, plus the addition of the crayfishes, which were left out previously because so little was known about these understudied taxa. A complete taxonomic checklist is included, which lists each imperiled taxon along with its priority designation followed by detailed species accounts. The eighty-four crayfish species accounts are comprised of a physical description (including a photograph, when available), distribution map, habitat summary, key life history, ecological information, basis for its status classification, and specific conservation and management recommendations. This revised expansion of the Alabama Wildlife set will be helpful to those seeking to broaden their knowledge of Alabama's vast wildlife resources and will greatly influence future studies in the conservation of many of the imperiled species. The University of Alabama Press originally released a set of four volumes titled Alabama Wildlife in 2004. The series consisted of A Checklist of Vertebrates and Selected Invertebrates (Volume 1), Imperiled Aquatic Mollusks and Fishes (Volume 2), Imperiled Amphibians, Reptiles, Birds, and Mammals (Volume 3), and Conservation and Management Recommendations for Imperiled Wildlife (Volume 4). However, Alabama Wildlife, Volume 5 offers an all-inclusive and complete update of these four previously published volumes, making it the single resource required for all those working with or interested in Alabama's wild animals.


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Wildlife : perceptions, threats and conservation
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ISBN: 1536110590 9781536110593 9781536110425 1536110426 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Nova Science Publishers,


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The Dama Gazelles : Last Members of a Critically Endangered Species
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ISBN: 1623496128 9781623496128 9781623496111 162349611X Year: 2018 Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press,

Threatened amphibians and reptiles in Europe.
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ISBN: 3400004375 Year: 1981 Publisher: Wiesbaden Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft


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Rote Listen der Biotoptypen, Tier- und Pflanzenarten des deutschen Wattenmeer- und Nordseebereichs
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ISBN: 389624101X Year: 2014 Publisher: Bonn Bundesamt für Naturschutz

The atlas of endangered species : threatened plants and animals of the world.
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ISBN: 1853838748 9781853838743 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Earthscan Publications


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Sturgeons of the Caspian Sea and the international trade in caviar.
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ISBN: 185850113X Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge TRAFFIC

Endangered and threatened species of the Platte River
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ISBN: 1280176067 9780309532639 9786610176069 0309532639 9780309532631 0309092302 9780309092302 0309166144 Year: 2005 Publisher: Washington, D.C. National Academies Press

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