endangered species

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endangered species

The empty ocean

plundering the world's marine life
2003

Going, going, gone?

animals and plants on the brink of extinction and how you can help
2006
Profiles many of the world's endangered plants and animals and explains what can be done to prevent their extinction. Includes full-color photographs.

The rarest of the rare

vanishing animals, timeless worlds
1997
Relates observations about the disappearance of rare, exotic, and endangered species and ecosystems. Discusses the habitats of monk seals, albatrosses, and migrating monarch butterflies.

King of fish

the thousand-year run of salmon
2003
Explores how a succession of historical experiences repeat a cycle in which overfishing and sweeping changes to rivers and seas render the world inhospitable to salmon.

Let's save the animals

2010
A lift-the-flap story that provides facts about the lives and behaviors of endangered animals, including the African elephant, black rhinoceros, Amur tiger, orangutan, and others.

It could still be endangered

2000
Presents many animals that are extinct or endangered, such as the bald eagle, passenger pigeon, and American bison, tells what has caused their numbers to dwindle, and suggests how they might be saved.

Gray bat

2001
Describes gray bats' habitat, what they eat, and how they live. Discusses reasons for their endangered status as well as what is being done to preserve the species.

Tiger tales and big cat stories

2000
Explains the sad fate of tigers, which are considered to be in serious danger of extinction.

Project Otter

2003
Provides information about otters through a look at a litter of pups born at the Saint Louis Zoo, examining their early lives, how they learn to swim, their parents, and other otter characteristics and behaviors; and discusses how zoos can help prevent otter extinction.

Bill and Pete to the rescue

2001
Bill the crocodile and his toothbrush, Pete the plover, set out to save Bill's cousin, who has been captured along with other endangered animals and taken from Egypt to Bad Guy's Big Bad Brother's Exotic Animal Farm near New Orleans, Louisiana.

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