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"At a personal and professional crossroads, a man resets his life and finds sobriety, love, and 618 bird species, cycling his way to a very Big Year. In Birding Under the Influence, Dorian Anderson, a neuroscience researcher on a pressure-filled life trajectory, walks away from the world of elite institutions, research labs, and academic publishing. In doing so, he falls in love and discovers he has freed himself to embrace his lifelong passion for birding. A North American Big Year-a continent-spanning adventure in which a birder attempts to see as many species as possible in twelve months-is a massive undertaking under any circumstances. But doing it on a bike while maintaining sobriety? That's next level. As Dorian pedals across the country, describing the birds he sees, he confronts the challenges of long-distance cycling: treacherous weather, punctured tires, speeding cars, and injury. He encounters eccentric characters, blistering blacktop, dreary hotel rooms, snarling dogs, and an endless sea of smoking tailpipes. He also confronts his past struggles with alcohol, drugs, and risky behaviors that began in high school and followed him into adulthood. Birding Under the Influence is a candid, honest look at Dorian's double life of academic accomplishment and addiction. While his journey to recovery is simultaneously poignant and inspiring, it is ultimately his love of birds and nature that provides the scaffolding to build a new and radically different life"--

"In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed--naively--that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Erratic weather, blistering drought, rising seas, and ecosystem collapse now affect every inch of the globe. Increasingly, we no longer look to stop climate change, choosing instead to adapt to it."--

When Emily Dickinson died in 1886, her sister learned of a cache of unknown poems which she was determined to see published. In time the task fell to Mabel Loomis Todd, a socialite in town who just so happened to be having a long-term affair with the sisters' brother, Austin. It is because of Mabel Loomis Todd that we know Emily Dickinson today. While Dickinson scholars have parsed her contributions to Emily's portfolio of poems and letters, Mabel Todd's involvement in the nascent practice of preservation of natural places has gone largely unreported. It was in 1908 when she signed papers for an undeveloped tract of an island in Muscongus Bay, Maine, where her family summered as rusticators for many years. Then through the foresight of her daughter Millicent Todd Bingham and the leadership of the National Audubon Society's John Baker, the island first hosted the Audubon Nature Camp for Adult Leaders in 1936.Over the decades, the summer endeavor has evolved into the historic Hog Island Audubon Camp, a worldwide landmark center of nature education and birding. How all that came about it is the stuff of Nature's People.

Dieses reich illustrierte Buch ist der ideale Führer zu den Gegenständen, die an den Stränden der Welt herumliegen. Vergessen Sie Muscheln und andere Fauna und Flora. Hier finden Sie, was ein Strandbesucher heutzutage am ehesten antreffen kann: Glas, Plastik, Holz, Metall, Papier, Öl und andere Quellen der Meeresverschmutzung!Mit fast 700 Fotos zeigt dieser Leitfaden die ganze Bandbreite der Müllgegenstände im Meer, die jeweils mit einem Augenzwinkern und einer Prise Humor vorgestellt werden. Darüber hinaus liefert der Autor ausführliche Informationen zu diesen Gegenständen. Sie werden alles Wissenswerte über sie erfahren. Dazu gehören nicht nur ihre Herkunft und ihre Zersetzungsstadien. Sie erfahren, welche Bedrohung die einzelnen Gegenstände für diese wunderschöne Umwelt darstellen, und erhalten Informationen über Präventionsstrategien, Empfehlungen für die Reinigung, alternative Produkte sowie Recycling- und Upcycling-Ideen. Neben dem ästhetischen Aspekt stellt der Müll im Meer auch eine Bedrohung für die Tierwelt, die menschliche Gesundheit und das wirtschaftliche Wohlergehen dar. Dieses Buch gibt Ihnen das nötige Wissen an die Hand, um diese schändlichen und oft gefährlichen Schandflecke zu bekämpfen. Werden Sie ein Stranddetektiv! Bereisen Sie mit dieser ultimativen Strandlektüre die beliebtesten Reiseziele der Welt und helfen Sie mit, diese faszinierenden Umgebungen in ihrer natürlichen Schönheit wiederherzustellen.

"In the tradition of Killers of the Flower Moon, a haunting murder-mystery revealing the human story behind one of the most devastating crimes of our time: the ruthless destruction of the Amazon rainforest-and anyone who stands in the way"--

This edited volume summarizes multidisciplinary work on wildlife conservation in the Tarangire Ecosystem of northern Tanzania. By drawing together human-centered, wildlife-centered, and interdisciplinary research, this book contributes to furthering our understanding of the often complex mechanisms underlying human-wildlife interactions in dynamic landscapes. By synthesizing the wealth of knowledge generated by anthropologists, ecologists, conservationists, entrepreneurs, geographers, sociologists, and zoologists over the last decades, this book also highlights practicable and locally adapted solutions for shaping human-wildlife interactions towards coexistence.Readers will discover the reciprocal and often unexpected direct and indirect dynamics between people and wildlife. While boundaries (e.g. between people and wildlife, between protected and un-protected areas, and between different groups of people) are a common theme throughout the different chapters, this book stresses the commonalities, links, and synergies between seemingly disparate disciplines, opinions, and conservation approaches. The chapters are divided into clear sections, such as the human dimension, the wildlife dimension  and  human-wildlife interactions,  representing a detailed summary of anthropological, ecological, and interdisciplinary research projects that have been conducted in the Tarangire Ecosystem over the last decades. Beyond, this work contributes to the debate about land-sharing versus land-sparing and provides an in-depth case study for understanding the complexities associated with human-wildlife coexistence in one of the few remaining ecosystems that supports migratory populations of large mammals.The topic of this book is particularly relevant for students, scholars, and practitioners who are interested in reconciling the needs of human populations with those of the environment in general and large mammal populations in particular.    

Protected Area Governance and Management presents a compendium of original text, case studies and examples from across the world, by drawing on the literature, and on the knowledge and experience of those involved in protected areas.

"The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844. Gâisli Pâalsson draws on firsthand accounts from the Icelanders who hunted the last great auks to bring to life a bygone age of Victorian scientific exploration while offering vital insights into the extinction of species."--

This book addresses the effectiveness of existing protected areas at conserving the diversity of genes, species and ecosystems on land and at sea. The book synthetizes the main biodiversity conservation outcomes of protected areas in the 2010-2019 decade, drawing on a systematic literature review of scientific publications and case studies from around the world demonstrating successes and failures. It provides region-specific results for land and sea ecosystems as well as for developed and developing countries. It also reviews current methodological approaches used to assess protected area effectiveness. The work is timely, since there is growing concern on the global biodiversity crisis among researchers, government organizations and the general public, as demonstrated by the 2030 targets established by the UN Sustainable Development Goals for Life Below Water (SDG 14) and Life On land (SDG15). The book is written in an easy and enjoyable style using numerous pictures, tables and graphs to make the content more engaging and understandable. The main intended audiences of the book are academics, from post-graduate students to university lecturers, and senior researchers in the fields of biodiversity conservation, sustainable development and environmental policy, as well as protected area managers and practitioners.

Ara, tells the Monkey Puzzle Tree Tale - the Araucaria Tree an Quintessential British Branch. It is a fictional story, surrounded by facts, about the tree's Chilean origins and journey to Great Britain.Foreword by David Gedye : Author Araucaria The Monkey PuzzleThe story is told through the voice of Ara - the first Araucaria tree. She tells us about Botanists, Molina, Dombey and the Don, Menzies (1795), Macrae (1826) and Nurseryman William Lobb (1843) who successfully bring back seeds and seedlings to Britian where they quickly become a symbol of wealth and status. However, the journey of the Monkey Puzzle is not without its puzzles and mysteries, including how it got its name.The tree captures the attention of the British people and the first people to plant the Monkey Puzzle Tree on their estates, Dropmore Estate and Kew Gardens and even Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, who had one planted in the garden at Buckingham Palace.Royalty loved this tree and King William IV was the first to recognize and fall in love with this amazing tree. Followed by Philip Forst and David Gedye - a modern guru on the tree.We come up to date with Pablo Neruda, Ode to the Araucaria Aracana and Whitby Jet - the fossilized gemstone coming from the Monkey Puzzle.This little book includes puzzles and details of public houses named after this tree. It has the fun part of why it was called a Devil Tree and lists its different names, Araucaria Imbricata, Chilean Pine, The Monkey's Despair, Pehuén Tree.You look at a Monkey Puzzle tree - once seen never forgotten but impossible to climb. People regarded it as Marmite® you either love it or hate it.Recipes and foraging tips from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jared RydelekNote that some of the royalties from this book will go to the International Conifer Conservation Programme, established at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Full of great quotes and links to video from National Geographic, Chile Travel and The Gardens Trust.Also features the song from Joanne Rand who put together a song singing about Meeting Under the Monkey Puzzle Tree. Review of other authors books who give homage to the Monkey Puzzle Tree, Muriel Spark - The ballad of Peckham Rye, Sonia Tilson - a novel, Famous The Ghost and Mrs Muir, Jonathan Drori Around the World in Eighty Trees, Stephen Gillen memoir and Fiorella Angelina's film. Areas such as Monkey Town in Heywood and Morriston Monkeys.The Monkey Puzzle is a beloved part of the British landscape, and the story is filled with love and admiration for this unique and unusual tree.

A dynamic and sweeping history that exposes how humankind's affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible--while also threatening its essential fabric. For thousands of years, we've found ways to scorch, scour, and sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these methods are wonderfully effective. Often, however, they come with catastrophic consequences--consequences that aren't typically understood for generations. The Chemical Age tells the captivating story of the scientists who waged war on famine and disease with chemistry. With depth and verve, Frank A. von Hippel explores humanity's uneasy coexistence with pests, and how their existence, and the battles to exterminate them, have shaped our modern world. Beginning with the potato blight tragedy of the 1840s, which led scientists on an urgent mission to prevent famine using pesticides, von Hippel traces the history of pesticide use to the 1960s, when Rachel Carson's Silent Spring revealed that those same chemicals were insidiously damaging our health and driving species toward extinction. Telling the story of these pesticides in vivid detail, von Hippel showcases the thrills and complex consequences of scientific discovery. He describes the invention of substances that could protect crops, the emergence of our understanding of the way diseases spread, the creation of chemicals used to kill pests and people, and, finally, how scientists turned those wartime chemicals on the landscape at a massive scale, prompting the vital environmental movement that continues today. The Chemical Age is a dynamic, sweeping history that exposes how humankind's affinity for pesticides made the modern world possible--while also threatening its essential fabric.

This book examines the impacts that the COVID-19 lockdown has had on environmental and ecological health, with a focus on coastal ecosystems in the Lower Gangetic Delta. The book begins with an overview of COVID-19's spread and impact before and after the lockdown in the focus region, then addresses the specific impacts that the lockdown period had and continues to have on air quality, marine and estuarine water quality, coastal biodiversity, and the livelihoods of the region's inhabitants, especially those who live below the poverty line. The decrease in human activity combined with the complete closure of various sectors, including air travel, oil and gas drilling, and construction, has had a pronounced effect on biodiversity and overall environmental health that is yet to be fully realized. The book sheds light on these changes and assesses how biodiversity, ambient air quality, and ecosystem functioning will progress as COVID-19 remains a threat and the lockdown persists. The studywill be of interest to researchers, government officials and professionals dealing with disaster management, environmental science, biological science, and health.

The Theory on Universal Continuity and Sustainability This book is only one of many contributions that identify the reality and seriousness of climate change in our world. Many science experts, an overwhelming number of experts and organizations, (Appendix 1) have raised the issue of the immediate necessity to address climate change but to no significant notice on the part of conservative politicians, the rich and wealthy and the companies that pollute our environment. For the average citizen, climate change explained using scientific rationale and descriptions may contain concepts that are difficult to grasp for the average citizen. It is the intent of this book to explain and address the problem of climate change in ways the average, non-scientific person can understand. Greed is a factor inhibiting climate change weighs in the failure of American and world politicians to act and support the cause to reverse the warming of our planet. What this book does is correlate the phenomena of climate change to industrialization, population increase, proliferation of fossil fuel emissions, and changes in the environmental phenomena of our world. Hypothesis there is no coincidence in the relationship between fossil fuel emissions, population increase, human behavior, industrialization, and global warming, is reinforced by the evidence presented in this book. There is a causal, stimulus / response relationship between human behavior and global warming. Why humans fail to address the issue of climate change in a significantly actionable manner indicates the shortsightedness and incompetence of our world leaders. It also indicates the frivolous casual way some people deal with the issue. One can hypothesize the value system of our world leaders and several individuals is seriously flawed in preference of money over life.

The Theory on Universal Continuity and Sustainability This book is only one of many contributions that identify the reality and seriousness of climate change in our world. Many science experts, an overwhelming number of experts and organizations, (Appendix 1) have raised the issue of the immediate necessity to address climate change but to no significant notice on the part of conservative politicians, the rich and wealthy and the companies that pollute our environment. For the average citizen, climate change explained using scientific rationale and descriptions may contain concepts that are difficult to grasp for the average citizen. It is the intent of this book to explain and address the problem of climate change in ways the average, non-scientific person can understand. Greed is a factor inhibiting climate change weighs in the failure of American and world politicians to act and support the cause to reverse the warming of our planet. What this book does is correlate the phenomena of climate change to industrialization, population increase, proliferation of fossil fuel emissions, and changes in the environmental phenomena of our world. Hypothesis there is no coincidence in the relationship between fossil fuel emissions, population increase, human behavior, industrialization, and global warming, is reinforced by the evidence presented in this book. There is a causal, stimulus / response relationship between human behavior and global warming. Why humans fail to address the issue of climate change in a significantly actionable manner indicates the shortsightedness and incompetence of our world leaders. It also indicates the frivolous casual way some people deal with the issue. One can hypothesize the value system of our world leaders and several individuals is seriously flawed in preference of money over life. One can also argue that the psychology of politicians is likewise flawed, as they operate with an incompetence that has potential to destroy our world. This book does not claim that global warming is not a significant issue with many individuals. What it does claim is that those individuals (world leaders) are lax in their responsibility to deal with the problem

Fishing for Fairness develops an explicitly cultural perspective on environmental politics in the Philippines by analysing the responses of fishers to marine resource regulations. In the resource frontier of the Calamianes Islands, fishing, conservation and tourism provide the context where competing visions of how to engage with marine resources are played out. The book draws on data from ethnographic fieldwork with fishers, government and NGO officials, fish traders and tourism operators to show how the strategic responses of fishers to management initiatives are couched within particular cultural idioms. Tapping into broader notions of morality in the Philippines, fishers express a discourse that emphasises their poverty and the obligations of the wealthy to treat them with fairness. By deploying this discourse, fishers are able to reframe what are "on the surface"questions of environmental management into issues about poverty within particular social relationships. By using a cultural political ecology framework to analyse fishers' responses to regulation, the book emphasises the distinctive ways in which marginalised people in the Philippines resist and reframe resource management initiatives. Fishing for Fairness will appeal to both academics and policy makers interested in marine resource management, political ecology, anthropology and development studies particularly throughout the Asia-Pacific --

The colour of carbon matters. Green carbon is the carbon stored in the plants and soil of natural ecosystems and is a vital part of the global carbon cycle.

The environmental history of "the most polluted lake in America."​​Native Americans have long regarded Onondaga Lake as one of the most sacred spaces in the continent, the place where peace between nations was achieved and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy was created. In the mid-twentieth century, however, it acquired a wholly different reputation as "the most polluted lake in America." Toxic Lake is an environmental history of this complex ecological system, tracking how it was tarnished, the costly efforts to clean it up, and the controversies those efforts generated. Thomas Shevory argues that the history of Onondaga Lake mirrors the larger environmental history of the US, from colonization to the industrial era, resulting, eventually, in the rise of social movements and legislative action for environmental protection. Layered within this history is the dismissal of indigenous land claims and the marginalization of indigenous voices in clean-up efforts. Toxic Lake illustrates that the failure to prevent the environmental destruction of Onondaga Lake was part of a political climate which favored unregulated industrial production and urban growth, ignoring the destructive impacts on local environments. Shevory argues this larger failure was the result of an active process of privileging the economic interests of polluters over other business interests, expanding neighborhoods, and indigenous rights. He concludes with an investigation of New York's recent declaration that the clean-up is complete, questioning what exactly that means and whether the lake's status as a sacred space will ever be re-established. Toxic Lake is a compelling work of history, demonstrating the disastrous effects of pollution and the importance of community involvement in environmental activism.

Ce livre de coloriage pour adultes est une collection de 40 illustrations d'animaux magnifiquement dessinées, chacun décoré avec des motifs de fleurs et de feuilles. Ce livre est conçu pour aider les adultes à se détendre et à réduire le stress grâce à l'art thérapie. Chaque animal est représenté de manière détaillée, avec des détails tels que des plumes, des poils, des écailles ou des cornes, ajoutant une touche de réalisme à chaque page. Les fleurs et les feuilles qui les entourent sont également très détaillées, offrant une grande variété de formes et de couleurs pour colorier et personnaliser. Que vous soyez un artiste chevronné ou simplement en quête d'une activité relaxante, "Animaux à fleurs" est le livre de coloriage parfait pour stimuler votre créativité tout en vous offrant un moment de détente.

'A thought-provoking book which empowers its readers to think about the problems in systematic, transformative ways' Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity'A much-needed decolonial examination of the climate crisis' Nnimmo Bassey, author of To Cook a Continent'Groundbreaking ... offers a timely, acute analysis of what a just transition might mean for the region' Laleh Khalili, author of Sinews of War and TradeThe Arab region is a focus of world politics, with authoritarian regimes, significant fossil fuel reserves and histories of colonialism and imperialism. It is also the site of potentially immense green energy resources. The writers in this collection explore a region ripe for energy transition, but held back by resource-grabbing and (neo)colonial agendas. They show the importance of fighting for a just energy transition and climate justice - exposing policies and practices that protect global and local political elites, multinational corporations and military regimes.Covering a wide range of countries from Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia to Egypt, Sudan, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Palestine, this book challenges Eurocentrism and highlights instead a class-conscious approach to climate justice that is necessary for our survival.Hamza Hamouchene is a London-based Algerian researcher and activist. He is the North Africa Programme Coordinator at the Transnational Institute (TNI). His books include The Arab Uprisings and The Struggle for Energy Democracy in the Maghreb. He writes for various publications including the Guardian, HuffPost and openDemocracy. Katie Sandwell is a Programme Coordinator with the Transnational Institute. She is co-author of From Crisis to Transformation: What is Just Transition?

Join Hamish The Eco Ninja on his second adventure as he learns all about bees and just how important they are for our planet. This is a story for younger readers that also contains up to date, highly factual information on bees.

The Canary: Natural History, Science and Cultural Significance covers the ecology, evolution and conservation of the canary and related species, along with the history and cultural significance of the domestic canary worldwide and various scientific disciplines in which canaries have played a key role as a model species. The book synthesizes the multiple ways in which the canary and its relatives have been, and continue to be, an important scientific model in diverse areas and have influenced human culture. Each chapter is written by international experts in areas such as biogeography, animal behavior, evolutionary ecology, conservation, neurobiology, genetics, or ethnology. In covering this eclectic array of topics, while always focusing on the canary and its close relatives, this book uses the immense appeal of the canary as a vehicle to present notions of ecology, evolution, biodiversity conservation, and so on, to a wide audience.

"Meetings with remarkable mushrooms are an all-year event for Australian ecologist Alison Pouliot. Bifurcating her life between the northern and southern hemispheres, she ensures that she experiences two autumns per year and has double the chances to find fungi. In this book, she uses visits around the world to show readers the diversity of this life-and makes the case that appreciating fungi is a key to understanding the power and fragility of our planet. With Pouliot as our guide, we learn that fire-loving truffles in the genus Mesophelia transform their scent after burning-from a sweet nut-like aroma into a stink like rotting onion-to lure mammals that excavate and eat these truffles, and then spread their spores. Or, with her, we spot the eerie glow of the ghost fungus. The ghost fungus looks like an edible oyster mushroom, but don't confuse them. If you put ghost fungus in your mouth, it will soon come back out, with everything else in your stomach. Or you might enjoy seeing vegetable caterpillars-neither vegetable nor caterpillar-but a fungus that eats arthropods from the inside out. Pouliot's focus on the global community of fungus experts, the importance of local knowledge, and the historic and current contributions of women in mycology all reinforce her message that understanding fungi is fundamental for us all"--