Download or read book Protecting Endangered Species at the San Diego Zoo written by Georgeanne Irvine and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how animals such as the clouded leopard, Tahitian lory, and the Mhorr gazelle have become endangered species and how scientists at the San Diego Zoo are working on projects that will protect and conserve these rare animals.
Download or read book Protecting Endangered Species at the San Diego Zoo written by Georgeanne Irvine and published by Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 1990 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how animals such as the clouded leopard, Tahitian lory, and the Mhorr gazelle have become endangered species and how scientists at the San Diego Zoo are working on projects that will protect and conserve these rare animals.
Download or read book Endangered Species Technical Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book San Diego Zoo written by and published by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1916, the Zoo cares for 3,700 animals and 700,000 exotic plants on 100 acres. We hope this guidebook inspires a passion for the natural world and encourages you to partner with us in saving species worldwide.
Download or read book No More Dodos written by Nicholas Nirgiotis and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the efforts to save such animals as the black-footed ferret, the golden lion tamarin, and the California condor from extinction through programs designed to protect endangered species.
Download or read book Plant Conservation Genetics written by Robert J Henry and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2006-06-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide that covers both in situ and ex situ techniques for plant diversity conservation The conservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources is of increasing importance globally. Plant Conservation Genetics addresses this issue by providing an extensive overview of this emerging area of science, exploring various pr
Download or read book Cloning Wild Life written by Carrie Friese and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The natural world is marked by an ever-increasing loss of varied habitats, a growing number of species extinctions, and a full range of new kinds of dilemmas posed by global warming. At the same time, humans are also working to actively shape this natural world through contemporary bioscience and biotechnology. In Cloning Wild Life, Carrie Friese posits that cloned endangered animals in zoos sit at the apex of these two trends, as humans seek a scientific solution to environmental crisis. Often fraught with controversy, cloning technologies, Friese argues, significantly affect our conceptualizations of and engagements with wildlife and nature. By studying animals at different locations, Friese explores the human practices surrounding the cloning of endangered animals. She visits zoos—the San Diego Zoological Park, the Audubon Center in New Orleans, and the Zoological Society of London—to see cloning and related practices in action, as well as attending academic and medical conferences and interviewing scientists, conservationists, and zookeepers involved in cloning. Ultimately, she concludes that the act of recalibrating nature through science is what most disturbs us about cloning animals in captivity, revealing that debates over cloning become, in the end, a site of political struggle between different human groups. Moreover, Friese explores the implications of the social role that animals at the zoo play in the first place—how they are viewed, consumed, and used by humans for our own needs. A unique study uniting sociology and the study of science and technology, Cloning Wild Life demonstrates just how much bioscience reproduces and changes our ideas about the meaning of life itself.
Download or read book Threatened Endangered and Extinct Species written by Wendell Rhodes and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We share the planet with millions of plants and animals. Sometimes human behavior can harm them. This title introduces readers to the plants and animals that are now classified as threatened, endangered, and extinct. Readers will learn about the threats and dangers these species face or once faced and the consequences that follow. Important concepts such as conservation and protection are explored in this title, which will help readers understand people’s role in helping threatened and endangered species. Age-appropriate text and colorful photographs make this high-interest topic accessible for young readers.
Download or read book The Animal Game written by Daniel E. Bender and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the global trade and trafficking in animals that supplied U.S. zoos, Daniel Bender shows how Americans learned to view faraway places through the lens of exotic creatures on display. He recounts the public’s conflicted relationship with zoos, decried as prisons by activists even as they remain popular centers of education and preservation.
Download or read book From the Land to the Sea the Navy Protects Endangered Species written by Jeffrey R. Cohn and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zoo Renewal written by Lisa Uddin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of zoo reform, from naked cages to more naturalistic enclosures. She argues that reform belongs to the story of cities and feelings toward many of their human inhabitants. In Zoo Renewal, Uddin demonstrates how efforts to make the zoo more natural and a haven for particular species reflected white fears about the American city—and, pointedly, how the shame many visitors felt in observing confined animals drew on broader anxieties about race and urban life. Examining the campaign against cages, renovations at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. and the San Diego Zoo, and the cases of a rare female white Bengal tiger and a collection of southern white rhinoceroses, Uddin unpacks episodes that challenge assumptions that zoos are about other worlds and other creatures and expand the history of U.S. urbanism. Uddin shows how the drive to protect endangered species and to ensure larger, safer zoos was shaped by struggles over urban decay, suburban growth, and the dilemmas of postwar American whiteness. In so doing, Zoo Renewal ultimately reveals how feeling bad, or good, at the zoo is connected to our feelings about American cities and their residents.
Download or read book Scientific Foundations of Zoos and Aquariums written by Allison B. Kaufman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using first-person stories and approachable scientific reviews, this volume explores how zoos conduct and support science around the world.
Download or read book Zoos and Animal Welfare written by Christine Van Tuyl and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2008 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trip to the zoo, when very young, is an important part of curriculum in America, but as we mature, we learn that zoos represent captivity, and often produce undesired, unhealthy results on the inhabitants. This volume asks students to think critically about Earth's animals, and how we treat them. Essays discuss zoos and the treatment of animals in captivity, covering the role of zoos in education and ensuring the survival of certain species, the problem of surplus animals, and how elephants react to captivity.
Download or read book Heart of the Zoo written by Kathi Diamant and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the extraordinary story of how Chuck Bieler "earned his stripes" at San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. With inside stories and humorous details, it captures his tireless efforts to help create an international conservation organization where all wildlife thrives. In the 1970s, a new era of zoos dawned as the world became aware of the challenges facing wildlife. To help save shrinking habitats and endangered wildlife populations, zoos had to evolve from their role as living museums to centers of conservation. At the forefront of this seismic shift stood an unlikely hero: Chuck Bieler. As executive director emeritus of San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Chuck Bieler guided the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park through unprecedented challenges-notably, with the support of his beloved wife, Judy. During his five-decade tenure, Chuck built connections with the local community and his Zoo family, cemented relationships with important donors, championed science and research, and established international partnerships that ultimately brought wildlife like koalas and giant pandas to San Diego
Download or read book Endangered Animals written by John Bonnett Wexo and published by Child's World. This book was released on 1990 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictures identify endangered animal species as text explains what people did to cause some animals to be headed for extinction and what can be done about it.
Download or read book It Began with a Roar written by Harry Milton Wegeforth and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The San Diego Wild Animal Park written by Karen E. Worley and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
