Environmental reporter Alanna Mitchell shares her experiences traveling to places around the world to research endangered places. Documents the efforts in various regions to turn environmental hotspots into environmentally protected areas. Details Mitchell's journeys through Madagascar, the Suriname rain forest, Jordan, the Arctic, Iceland, and the Galapagos Islands.
Discusses the current worldwide environmental crisis, including air, water, and nuclear pollution, deforestation, global climate changes, and the depletion of the ozone layer, and describes some ways to solve the problems.
An allegory that uses the introduction of rabbits to Australia to portray the arrival of Europeans there and the widespread environmental destruction caused by man throughout the continent.
Discusses various issues related to protecting natural environments, covering breaking up habitats, threat to ocean biomes, use of national parks, pressures of tourism, and lack of protection, and including two case studies for each as well as advice on what that reader can do to help.
