The Last extinction
By: edited by Les Kaufman and Kenneth Mallory.
Contributors: Kaufman, Les.; Mallory, Kenneth.; New England Aquarium (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher: Published in cooperation with the New England Aquarium [by] the MIT Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Nature conservation; Wildlife conservation; Extinction (Biology)
Description: Outlines clearly just what ecology and extinction are about, emphasizing global issues in a multitude of examples.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Based on a public lecture series, "Extinction: saving the sinking ark," held in Boston at the New England Aquarium during fall 1984.
Table of contents: title: Why the ark is sinking / Les Kaufman; title: Mass extinctions / David Jablonski; title: The Amazon : paradise lost? / Ghillean T. Prance; title: Vanishing species in our own backyard : extinct fish and wildlife of the United States and Canada / James D. Williams and Ronald M. Nowak; title: Riders of the last ark : the role of captive breeding in conservation strategies / Thomas J. Foose; title: Life in the next millennium : who will be left in earth's community? / David Ehrenfeld.