Russell A. Mittermeier Cyril F. Kormos Cristina Goettsch Mittermeier
Conservation International has been instrumental in raising awareness and concern about the most environmentally endangered regions and animals throughout the world with its publication of high-quality volumes that combine breathtaking photography with expert scientific analysis. Continuing in this distinguished tradition, Conservation International offers here a new, lushly illustrated volume that examines transboundary conservation areas--environmentally endangered regions that sprawl across international borders and contain multiple protected areas. Recent studies estimate that there...
Conservation International has been instrumental in raising awareness and concern about the most environmentally endangered regions and animals throug...
On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America s East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and scuttle up the beach to their spawning grounds, as they ve done, nearly unchanged, for more than 440 million years. Horseshoe crabs are far from the only contemporary manifestation of Earth s distant past, and in "Relics," world-renowned zoologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki leads readers on an unbelievable journey through those lingering traces of a lost world....
On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America s East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For...