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005			20210430131553.0
008			201112s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020			_a9781324001683 _qhardcover
020			_a1324001682 _qhardcover
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049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aNijhuis, Michelle, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aBeloved beasts : _bfighting for life in an age of extinction / _cMichelle Nijhuis.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bW. W. Norton & Company, Inc., _c[2021]
300			_a342 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [275]-328) and index.
520			_a"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement--told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save charismatic species such as the American bison and bald eagle to today's global effort to defend life on a larger scale. She describes the vital role of scientists and activists such as Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson as well as lesser-known figures in conservation history; she reveals the origins of vital organizations like the Audubon Society and the World Wildlife Fund; she explores current efforts to protect species such as the whooping crane and the black rhinoceros; and she confronts the darker side of conservation, long shadowed by racism and colonialism. As the destruction of other species continues and the effects of climate change escalate, Beloved Beasts charts the ways conservation is becoming a movement for the protection of all species--including our own"-- _cProvided by publisher.
505	0		_aIntroduction: Aesop's swallows -- The botanist who named the animals -- The taxidermist and the bison -- The hellcat and the hawks -- The forester and the green fire -- The professor and the elixir of life -- The eagle and the whooping crane -- The scientists who escaped the tower -- The rhino and the commons -- The few who save the many -- Homo amphibus.
650		0	_aEndangered species _xConservation. _9255211
650		0	_aWildlife conservation _xHistory. _9215590
650		0	_aEndangered species _vAnecdotes. _9283911
650		0	_aWildlife conservation _vAnecdotes.
655		7	_aInstructional and educational works. _2lcgft _9296635
655		7	_aAnecdotes. _2lcgft _94847
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