Making Parks Work
Subtitle: Strategies For Preserving Tropical Nature
Contributors: John Terborgh (Editor); Carel van Schaik (Editor); Lisa Davenport (Editor); Madhu Rao (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Island Press
Published: March 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 511
ISBN-13: 9781559639057
Subjects: Conservation of the environment; Management of land & natural resources; Nature; Environmental Science; Congresses; Protected areas; Environmental Studies; Natural Resources; Nature/Ecology; Tropics; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Biodiversity conservation; Ecology; Management; National parks and reserves
First sentence: Experts estimate that extinctions are occurring at hundreds of times the rate recorded through normal times in fossil history, the so-called "background" extinction rate.