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Author: Shona Grimbly Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing ISBN: 9780761403203 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 38
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Describes the physical characteristics, habits, and natural environment of the last three species of zebras left in the world--the plains zebra, the mountain zebra, and Grevy's zebra. Also discusses what is being done to protect these animals from complete extinction.
Author: Patricia Des Roses Moehlman Publisher: IUCN ISBN: 9782831706474 Category : Endangered species Languages : en Pages : 212
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The new Equid Action Plan provides current knowledge on the biology, ecology and conservation status of wild zebras, asses, and horses. It specifies what information is lacking, and prioritizes needed conservation actions. The Action Plan also provides chapters on equid taxonomy, genetics, reproductive biology, and population dynamics. These chapters highlight unsolved issues of taxonomy and genetics. They also provide information and insight into the special demographic and genetic challenges of managing small populations. The chapter on disease provides a review of documented equine disease and epidemiology and focuses on priorities for equid conservation health. The final chapter deals with the importance of developing an assessment methodology that explicitly considers the role of equids in ecosystems and the ecological processes that are necessary for ecosystem viability. The approach of combining ecological field studies and ecosystem modeling should prove useful for the scientific management and conservation of wild equids worldwide. These chapters provide research and conservation practitioners with new information and paradigms.
Author: Peter Heywood Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108923569 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 243
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Quaggas were beautiful pony-sized zebras in southern Africa that had fewer stripes on their bodies and legs, and a browner body coloration than other zebras. Indigenous people hunted quaggas, portrayed them in rock art, and told stories about them. Settlers used quaggas to pull wagons and to protect livestock against predators. Taken to Europe, they were admired, exhibited, harnessed to carriages, illustrated by famous artists and written about by scientists. Excessive hunting led to quaggas' extinction in the 1880s but DNA from museum specimens showed rebreeding was feasible and now zebras resembling quaggas live in their former habitats. This rebreeding is compared with other de-extinction and rewilding ventures and its appropriateness discussed against the backdrop of conservation challenges—including those facing other zebras. In an Anthropocene of species extinction, climate change and habitat loss which organisms and habitats should be saved, and should attempts be made to restore extinct species?
Author: George S. Fichter Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9781582381381 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 172
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Identifies and describes 140 species which are endangered, describing the many causes of endangerment and the controversies surrounding the current laws.
Author: Kelley MacAulay
Author: Kelley MacAulay
Author: Shona Grimbly
Author: Peter Heywood
Author: Katherine Noble-Goodman
Author: Patricia Des Roses Moehlman
Author: Peter Heywood
Author: Marshall Cavendish Corporation
Author: Melissa S. Cole
Author: George S. Fichter
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