conservation of natural resources

Examines a wide range of environmental problems including overpopulation, biodiversity, pollution, and conservation and encourages readers to become involved in trying to solve these problems.

Describes in simple language and with many illustrations threats to the environment and ways of alleviating those threats.

Mike Roselle describes his experiences as a radical environmentalist, sharing stories from throughout his thirty-year-struggle to stop big business and the government from inflicting damage on the planet.

Alina, the witch of the mountain, decides to cut down the trees around her home in order to make way for smoother broom landings and it takes the combined efforts of the animals of the forest and her fellow witches to save the woodlands.

The animal inhabitants of a rain forest live in peace, until something even more powerful than Jaguar comes to threaten their world.

Presents a collection of the first-hand accounts of naturalist Eric Dinerstein's encounters studying wildlife in remote parts of the globe.

Presents a collection of autobiographical essays about the author's life in northern Alaska. Topics include Kanter's appreciation for his young daughter's understanding of language, meditations on the grandeur and severity of nature, and lamentations of a wilderness that is rapidly disappearing. Includes photographs.

An account of the author's move into the woods of the Adirondacks and of her life as a consultant and conservationist.

Profiles of over 600 individuals and organizations that have influenced the environmental movement.

This book surveys pressing issues of conservation and pollution as they affect our entire planet and everything living on it.