Facing Extinction - The World's Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them

Donald, Paul F , Collar, Nigel J , Marsden, Stuart J and Pain, Deborah J

ISBN 10: 1408189666 / ISBN 13: 9781408189665

Published by Christopher Helm, 2013

About this Item

Tall 8vo, 320 pp, very well illustrated throughout with colour and black and white photographs, drawings, maps. Card covers, some minor creasing to the bottom right hand corner of the front cover and a few pages but otherwise a fine clean copy.

Seller Inventory # 9921

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Facing Extinction - The World's Rarest Birds and the Race to Save Them
• Publisher: Christopher Helm
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1408189666
• ISBN 13: 9781408189665
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Weight: 1.5 kilograms
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ornithology

About this title

Synopsis

An authoritative study of extinction in birds, with case studies of 20 critically endangered species and the research initiatives designed to save them.

Almost two hundred species of birds have become extinct in the past 400 years, and a similar number today are in imminent danger of following them. The world's conservationists are leading the fight to prevent the demise of these remaining critically endangered birds, with a fair degree of success.

This new book examines the process and issues concerning extinction - how and why it happens and what can be done about it. Whilst man is to blame for many of the causes, such as persecution and habitat loss, species have become extinct on a regular basis since life began.

After several thought-provoking introductory chapters, the book showcases about 20 species on the brink of extinction from around the world and describes the work that is being undertaken to save them. Some are success stories, but a few are not.

This is a subject close to the hearts of all birders and ornithologists and this book, written by a team of leading conservationists, will strike a chord in most of them.

About the Authors

Paul Donald is Senior Scientist at BirdLife International, and before this was for a long time Principal Scientist at the RSPB. He fell in love with larks while doing his doctoral research at Oxford University on the ecology of Skylarks, and has since worked on all of the world's rarest larks, including the critically endangered Liben Lark and Raso Lark. He is author of the Poyser monograph on the Skylark and lead author of Facing Extinction, a book about the world's rarest birds. For many years he was Editor-in-Chief of the leading ornithological journal Ibis, and he is a recipient of the prestigious ZSL Marsh Award for Conservation Biology. Paul is an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Cambridge and an Honorary Life Member of the British Ornithologists' Union.

Nigel Collar is Leventis Fellow in Conservation Biology at BirdLife International, and is the author of numerous books, papers and articles on threatened birds.

Stuart Marsden is Reader in Conservation Ecology at Manchester Metropolitan University and Editor-in-chief of Bird Conservation International.

Debbie Pain is Director of Conservation at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, and was formerly Head of International Research at the RSPB.