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Preserving wildlife : an international perspective
Title:
Preserving wildlife : an international perspective
Author:
Michael, Mark A., 1954-
Publication Information:
Amherst, N.Y. : Humanity Books, 2000.
Physical Description:
307 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Environmental ethics and the case against hunting / Roger J. H. King -- The medical treatment of wild animals / Robert W. Loftin -- Ethical considerations and animal welfare in ecological field studies / R. J. Putman -- Launching the natural ark / James R. Udall -- Weeding the garden / Andrew Neal Cohen -- The olympic goat controversy: a perspective / Victor B. Scheffer -- Response to Scheffer / Cathy Sue Anunsen, Roger Anunsen -- Reply to the Anunsens / Victor B. Scheffer -- Captive breeding of endangered species / Robert W. Loftin -- Helping a species go extinct: the Sumatran rhino in Borneo / Alan Rabinowitz -- Approaches to conserving vulnerable wildlife in China: does the color of cat matter-if it catches mice? / Richard B. Harris -- Local challenges to global agendas: conservation, economic liberalization and the pastoralists' rights movement in Tanzania / Roderick P. Neumann -- Is this the way to save Africa's wildlife? / Victoria Butler -- Wildlife conservation outside protected areas: lessons from an experiment in Zambia / Dale Lewis, Gilson B. Kaweche, Ackim Mwenya -- Wildlife conservation in tribal societies / Raymond Hames -- Economics: theory versus practice in wildlife management / Raymond Rasker, Michael V. Martin, Rebecca L. Johnson -- Elephants and economics / Graeme Caughley -- Kangaroo harvesting and the conservation of arid and semi-arid rangelands / Gordon Grigg -- Tourism as a sustained use of wildlife: a case study of Madre de Dios, southeastern Peru / Martha J. Groom, Robert D. Podolosky, Charles A. Munn -- Going, going, gone / Jim Mason.
Subject Term:
ISBN:
9781573927277
Format :
Book