Research Catalog

Title

Global 200 : places that must survive / preface by Fulco Pratesi ; editorial coordination WWF-Italy, Simona Giordano; texts, Simona Giordano ... [et al.].

Publication

Vercelli : White Star ; [New York : distributed in the U.S. by Rizzoli International Publications,] c2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pratesi, Fulco.
• Giordano, Simona.
• World Wildlife Fund.

Description

304 p. : chiefly col. ill.; 35 cm.

Alternative Title

Global two hundred

Subject

• Biodiversity conservation > Pictorial works
• Biotic communities > Pictorial works
• Ecosystem management > Pictorial works

Note

• "Around the world with WWF to save nature."
• Includes index.

Contents

A beautiful and diverse world -- Introduction -- A diverse earth -- The Fenno-Scandia alpine tundra and taiga -- The European mountains -- The Mediterranean Basin -- The Rift Valley Lakes -- The East African acacia savannas -- The Congo basin -- The Cape region -- The Madagascar forests and shrublands -- Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests -- The Terai-Duar savannas and grasslands -- The Sundarbans mangroves -- Borneo's peat swamp forests -- The Daurian steppe -- The East Siberian taiga -- The Bering Sea -- The northwestern Australian deserts -- The Great Barrier Reef -- New Caledonia's moist forests -- The Hawaiian forests -- Rapa Nui -- The Galápagos Islands -- The Northern prairie of North America -- The Chihuahuan Desert -- The Greater Antilles : Cuba -- The Llanos savannas of Colombia and Venezuela -- The Amazon River and flooded forests -- The Patagonian steppes -- The Antarctic Peninsula and Weddell Sea.

ISBN

• 9788854403017 (hbk.)
• 8854403016 (hbk.)

OCLC

• ocn173499727
• SCSB-14177870

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library