An Atlas of Endangered Species

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Her book An Atlas of Endangered Species explores the latest science, whether it be a hands-off or Jurassic-Park approach. A species may be listed as extinct in the wild only after years of surveys have failed to record an individual in its native or expected habitat. Human beings are a species of least concern, along with most domestic animals, such as dogs and cats. Its area of occupancy is enormous, from southeast Africa to the Philippines, and from China to Australia.

It is a vulnerable species because its area of occupancy is less than 2,000 square kilometers (772 square miles). Biodiversity data about plants, animals and fungi and their habitats may be used to educate and inform and in environmental decision-making, state of the environment assessments and restoration and rewilding. Those species that are extinct in some form are placed within the last two categories—extinct in the wild and extinct.

It examines the major threats to biodiversity, from loss of habitat to hunting, and describes the steps being taken toward conservation. The snaggletooth shark ( Hemipristis elongatus) is found in the tropical, coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Much like her presenting style, Megan McCubbin's writing has an effortless appeal to a diverse audience, from the curious child to the most seasoned of conservationists. With twenty percent of the earth's species facing extinction by 2030, this striking atlas brings up to date the data on those that have been lost already, those that are threatened, and those that are surviving today. This seabird is native to the coasts of North America and South America, as well as the islands of the Caribbean Sea.

Please note that a handling charge of 50p per ticket applies to bookings made in person or over the phone. As development brings people deeper into a species range, they may have more exposure to wild species. The gray whale, for instance, has a healthy population in the eastern Pacific Ocean, along the coast of North and South America. A species is extinct in the wild when it only survives in cultivation (plants), in captivity (animals), or as a population well outside its established range.Hexham Book Festival is a Not For Profit CIC and delivers an annual festival that takes place in and around Hexham each year. An endangered species’ extent of occurrence is less than 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles). Three nations have not ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity: Andorra, the Holy See (Vatican), and the United States. Galapagos kelp is classified as vulnerable because its population has declined more than 10 percent over 10 years. The spread includes well-known and not-so-well-known species and a smattering of marine species as well as terrestrial and aquatic ones.

We meet those who are engaged in preventing these species from being driven to extinction and hear their stories of success and sometimes of frustration. This shocking statistic from the UN Convention on Biological Diversity is one driver behind a new mini-anthology, An Atlas of Endangered Species. The Transcaucasian racerunner ( Eremias pleskei) is a lizard found on the Armenian Plateau, located in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran, and Turkey. I thought the book is well made its lovely, its nicely presented with further details on the subject and with the added Megan's experiences etc. Richard Mackay is a specialist in environmental-impact assessment and an environmental policy maker for major companies.

Because enormous parts of the Sierra Nevada, Rocky, and Cascade mountain ranges remain undeveloped, however, mountain lions are not endangered. The NBN Atlas is a collaborative project that aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources and makes it available and usable online. For Russet Burbanks, however, farmers must use fertilizers and pesticides to ensure healthy crops because the plant has almost no genetic variation. As development and invasive species such as Miconia destroy the bamboo forests, the population of Tahiti reed-warblers continues to shrink. Groups of species that have a tendency to inbreed usually have little genetic variation, because no new genetic information is introduced to the group.