Screen LibraryBeloved beasts : fighting for life in an age of extinction /
In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to p...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2022] ©2021 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Paperback edition. |
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| Summary: |
In the late nineteenth century, humans came at long last to a devastating realization: their rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving scores of animal species to extinction. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the history of the movement to protect and conserve other forms of life. From early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today's global effort to defend life on a larger scale, Nijhuis's "spirited and engaging" account documents "the changes of heart that changed history" (Dan Cryer, Boston Globe).With "urgency, passion, and wit" (Michael Berry, Christian Science Monitor), she describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund, explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros, and confronts the darker side of modern conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism.As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change wreak havoc on our world, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species including our own. -- |
| Carrier Form: | 342 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-328) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780393882438 0393882438 |
| Index Number: | QL81 |
| CLC: | Q16 |
| Call Number: | Q16/N691 |
| Contents: |
Introduction: Aesop's swallows -- The botanist who named the animals -- The taxidermist and the bison -- The hellcat and the hawks -- The forester and the green fire -- The professor and the elixir of life -- The eagle and the whooping crane -- The scientists who escaped the tower -- The rhino and the commons -- The few who save the many -- Homo amphibius. |