TURTLE CONSERVATION
Publisher: Smithsonian; Smithsonian Institution Press
Published: September 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781560983729
Subjects: Wildlife; Reptiles & Amphibians; Reptiles; Nature; Nature / Field Guide Books; Nature/Ecology; Wildlife Conservation; Turtles; Environmental Conservation & Protection - Endangered Species; Amphibians; Conservation of wildlife & habitats; Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Description: "Turtle Conservation provides a comprehensive analysis of threats to turtles and tortoises worldwide.

Considering the most significant problems facing the group, Michael Klemens and eighteen international experts on turtle biology and conservation chart successes and failures of past conservation programs, discuss the use of genetics and demography in turtle conservation, and propose more effective strategies that take into account chelonian biology as well as the economic and social situations affecting turtle conservation efforts.

They review the outlook for marine, freshwater, semi-aquatic, and terrestrial species; show how turtles make poor candidates for most wild-harvest programs; and propose that turtle and tortoise conservation efforts be integrated into more broadly focused, locally supported land-use projects.".

"For land and wildlife managers as well as herpetologists and conservation biologists, this book provides a wide-ranging survey of efforts to conserve one of the world's most ancient and endangered groups."--BOOK JACKET.