restoration ecology

"Explains why oceans are at risk and how people are combating plastics pollution, restoring marine biodiversity, and preserving our oceans for future generations. This title also explores the science behind ocean ecosystems and ocean currents"--Provided by publisher.

"Explains why freshwater lakes are at risk and how people are combating overfishing, cleaning up polluted waters, and preserving our freshwater lakes for future generations. This title also explores the science behind watersheds and the water cycle"--Provided by publisher.

"Explains why deserts are at risk and how people are combating invasive species, restoring damaged areas, and preserving deserts for future generations. This title also explores the science behind nitrogen pollution and the life in desert soil"--Provided by publisher.

After a meteor destroys the earth, a group of people escape and establish a safe harbor on the moon.

Fraser offers the first definitive account about rewilding--a visionary campaign to confront the looming extinction of thousands of species by restoring habitats, reviving migration corridors, and brokering peace between people and predators. Traveling with wildlife biologists and conservationists, Fraser reports on the vast projects that are turning Europe's former Iron Curtain into a greenbelt, creating trans-frontier Peace Parks to renew elephant routes throughout Africa, and linking protected areas from the Yukon to Mexico and beyond.

Summarizes reflections, readings, and conversations on the act of ecological restoration based on the author's work at the University of Wisconsin Arboretum from 1977 to 1999, discussing restoration as a way of solving the problem of habitat loss and offering the possibility of reversing environmental damage in some situations.

A tract of land is returned to its natural state, from pasture to wetland, as streams are unblocked, animals move back in, and native plants grow.

Chip Ward recounts his travels among a new generation of activists who are moving beyond defensive environmental struggles to advocate pioneering, proactive strategies for healing the environment.