The Lessons of Easter Island - by Clive Ponting.
Easter Island is one of the most remote inhabited places on earth.
At its peak the population was only about 7,000. Yet despite its superficial insignificance, the history of Easter Island is a grim warning to the world. The story of the Passenger Pigeon - by Clive Ponting. When the first few European colonialists arrived in turtle island, there were some five billion passenger pigeons there. Probably the most terrible example of mass slaughter in the history of wild life was not the bison but the passenger pigeon - a story that almost defies belief.