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The Last extinction

Title
The Last extinction / edited by Les Kaufman and Kenneth Mallory.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass : Published in cooperation with the New England Aquarium by the MIT Press, c1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Kaufman, Les
  • Mallory, Kenneth
  • New England Aquarium Corporation
Description
ix, 208 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Nature conservation
  • Wildlife conservation
  • Extinction (Biology)
Note
  • Based on a public lecture series, "Extinction: saving the sinking ark," held in Boston at the New England Aquarium during fall 1984.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Why the ark is sinking / Les Kaufman -- Mass extinctions / David Jablonski -- The Amazon : paradise lost? / Ghillean T. Prance -- Vanishing species in our own backyard : extinct fish and wildlife of the United States and Canada / James D. Williams and Ronald M. Nowak -- Riders of the last ark : the role of captive breeding in conservation strategies / Thomas J. Foose -- Life in the next millennium : who will be left in earth's community? / David Ehrenfeld.
LCCN
86007347
OCLC
  • 13456812
  • SCSB-648691
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library