This guide to falconry dates to mid-19th century Britain, and explains both the history and practical elements of using birds of prey to hunt wild animals. Raising and training intelligent birds of prey to hunt animals was popular in Europe from the Middle Ages onward. Over the centuries, techniques and practices were refined, with the peculiarities of the various birds used - be they peregrine falcons, goshawks, sparrow-hawks or otherwise - investigated...

The larger mammals of North America are known mostly to a few big game hunters, while the ordinary public observes them only in captivity or tamed. Very few students of ecology have ever lived with these animals in their native habitat-even fewer have written about them from an ecological viewpoint. In this respect, Adolph Murie is almost unique. This book concerns the domestic ways of the wildlife in Alaska, the grizzly bear, the wolf, the lynx,...

Transported by the magic mirror to the Amazon rain forest, ten-year-old Megan meets a girl whose scientist parents are searching for specimens of an endangered species of butterfly.

A brief introduction to the history of the American buffalo and how it was almost hunted into extinction.

Describes the twelve species of whales, threats to their existence, and efforts of the World Wildlife Fund to save whales from extinction.

What's to be done when only three spotted owls are left in Canada's wild? When wolves eat endangered caribou, cormorants kill rare trees, and housing developments threaten a tiny frog? Environmental journalist Sarah Cox has witnessed what happens when we drive species to the brink of extinction. In Signs of Life, she tags along with the Canadian military, Indigenous guardians, biologists, conservationists, and ordinary people who are racing to save...

While we await nations to join in a response to global warming, this books begins by reflecting upon the intentional political actions that annihilated the bison, North America's most iconic species. The plight of the buffalo supplied the catalyst for the conservation movement. George Mushbach, a designated "Conservation Hero," served an instrumental role in saving the last of the bison and protecting other species. George's career coincided with...

As recently as ten years ago, out of every ten African elephants that died, four fell at the hands of poachers. The figure today is eight. Over sixty percent of Africa's Forest Elephants have been killed by poachers since the turn of the century. Rhinoceroses are being slaughtered throughout their ranges. The Vietnamese One-horned Rhinoceros and the Western Black rhino have become extinct in the last decade, and the Northern White Rhinoceros, the...

Describes how and why various species of animals and the tropical rain forests are threatened with extinction and discusses the importance of ensuring their survival.

"In the early 18th century the American prairies shook under the hooves of nearly 30 million bison. Fast as a horse, tall as a person, and heavier than both combined, they roamed from coast to coast. A century later, people struggled to find a single one left alive. How did the great herds disappear, and what will it take to bring them back?"--From the publisher's web site.