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State of the wild 2006: a global portrait of wildlife, wildlands, and oceans
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Island Press
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9781597260008
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By the numbers : Hunted, traded, and eaten into extinction / Sharon Guynup --
Foreword : A brief history of State of the wild / Kent H. Redford --
Introduction : Wildlife, wildlands, and oceans / Sharon Guynup --
pt. 1. State of the wild --
Gold flowers : one view on the state of the wild / George B. Schaller --
Mapping the wild : the human footprint / Eric W. Sanderson --
Discoveries / Bijal Trivedi --
New conservation methods and technologies / Ken Kostel --
Regulating the wild / Ken Kostel --
The rarest of the rare : some of the world's most endangered animals / Michael Berens --
pt. 2. Global news highlights --
Africa / Ken Kostel --
Asia / Ken Kostel --
Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands / Ken Kostel --
Central and South America / Jesse Chapman-Bruschini --
Europe / Jesse Chapman-Bruschini --
Middle East and North Africa / Ken Kostel --
North America / Jesse Chapman-Bruschini --
Oceans / Bijal Trivedi --
Polar regions / Jesse Chapman-Bruschini --
pt. 3. Hunting and the wildlife trade --
Setting the scene / Elizabeth L. Bennett and Sharon Guynup --
A short history of hunting in North America / Ted Kerasote --
Consuming wildlife in the tropics / Elizabeth L. Bennett --
Wildlife trade within east Asia : supply and demand for traditional oriental medicine / James Compton and Samuel K.H. Lee --
Twine and the ancient mariners : albatrosses, sea turtles, and fishing gear encounters / Carl Safina, Eric Gilman, and Wallace J. Nichols --
Ebola, SARS, and other diseases that imperil people and animals / Robert A. Cook and William B. Karesh --
Hunting for conservation in the Amazon rain forests : lessons learned from Peru / Richard Bodmer --
pt. 4. Conservation controversies --
Let them eat cake? : some skeptical thoughts on conservation strategies in the Bushmeat range states / David Brown --
Biting the hand that feeds you : the consumption of nature and natural resources in the tropics / John Robinson --
Point-counterpoint --
Response to John Robinson : postindustrial conservation ideals and real-world politics / David Brown --
Response to David Brown : the view from Versailles contrasts with local reality / John Robinson --
Comments on Brown vs. Robinson : Bushmeat trade: thoughts from "the coast" / Glyn Davis --
Through the looking glass : the tragedy of depleting wildlife resources: a response to John Robinson and David Brown / Kathy MacKinnon --
Let them eat LSD Bushmeat : thoughts arising from Brown vs. Robinson / Ian Redmond --
pt. 5. Wildlife --
Listening to the birds / Joseph Tobias, Leon Bennun, and Alison Stattersfield --
Species in focus : saving jaguars throughout their range: from theory to practice / Alan Rabinowitz --
Climate change and the wild : into the great unknown / Glenn Scherer --
The gathering wave of ocean extinctions / Ellen K. Pikitch --
Conservation strategies for colonial and social species / William Conway --
pt. 6. Wildlands and oceans --
The land the wilderness act forgot / Rick Bass --
Marine protected areas : can we rebuild marine ecosystems by closing areas to fishing? / Callum M. Roberts --
pt. 7. People and culture --
Culturally determined wildlife populations : the problem of the designer ark / Bill Weber --
pt. 8. The art and practice of conservation --
Conservation and conflict : the importance of continuing conservation work during political upheaval and armed conflict / Peter Zahler --
Neither war or peace : protected areas still at risk in DR Congo, 2005 / John Hart --
The destruction of Iraq's wetlands and impacted on biodiversity / David Jensen, Hassan Partow, and Chizuru Aoki --
Captive breeding : miracle under fire / Dan Wharton --
Can tropical forests be managed for timber production and wildlife protection? / Francis E. Putz --
What falls through the cracks in conservation strategies? : interviews with Sylvia Earle and Thomas Lovejoy / Sharon Guynup --
Afterword : The relative wild / Bill McKibben --
Acknowledgments --
Notes --
Contributors --
Index.
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