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The red book : the extinction crisis face to face

Title
The red book : the extinction crisis face to face / texts, Amie Bräutigam and Martin D. Jenkins ; special contributions, George B. Rabb [and others].
Publication
[Mexico, D.F.] : CEMEX, ©2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Bräutigam, Amie.
  • Jenkins, Martin, 1959-
  • Cemex, S.A. de C.V.
  • International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Species Survival Commission.
  • Agrupación Sierra Madre.
Description
309 pages : chiefly color illustrations; 29 x 31 cm
Subject
  • Endangered species
  • Endangered species > Pictorial works
  • Biodiversity conservation
  • Extinction (Biology)
  • Extinction, Biological
  • Artensterben
  • Bedrohte Tiere
Genre/Form
Pictorial works.
Note
  • "IUCN--The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources ... [and] Agrupación Sierra Madre"--Colophon.
  • "Species Survival Commission"--Dust jacket.
Contents
Introduction -- Facing the challenge / George B. Rabb -- Mother Nature's ingenuity : the diversity of life on Earth -- Population extinction : a critical issue / Gerardo Ceballos, Paul R. Ehrlich -- Extinction : a natural, and unnatural, process -- Extinction wave in the making / Arthur E. Bogan -- The red list of threatened species : documenting the extinction crisis -- On humans and African elephants / Holly T. Dublin -- Averting extinctions : prospects for the future -- Further readings -- Contributors -- The 1994 IUCN red list categories -- Tables -- IUCN/SSC directory -- Photo captions.
ISBN
  • 9686397647
  • 9789686397642
OCLC
  • ocm50709032
  • 50709032
  • SCSB-1275179
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library