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Presents Rachel Carson's 1962 environmental classic "Silent Spring," which identified the dangers of indiscriminate pesticide use; and includes an introduction by biographer Linda Lear and an afterword by scientist Edward O. Wilson.

The Kratt Brothers are ready to take kids on an incredible adventure, as they come face to face with some of the most wild and exciting predators in the animal kingdom! Join Martin and Chris Kratt as they learn the ways of the cheetah, a wolf pack, birds of prey, and even uncover the mysteries of the great white shark! All while thwarting evildoers before it's too late!

After a fire kills her parents, eleven-year-old Martine must leave England to live with her grandmother on a wildlife game reserve in South Africa, where she befriends a mythical white giraffe.

As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.

In 2000 in the jungles of Panama, a young journalist, named Ana, has a chance encounter with a tiny orphaned sloth, which she names Velcro. For nearly two years, the pair is inseparable until finally Ana travels up a remote river to reintroduce Velcro back to the wild. This is the story Ana’s return to Central and South America to see how much has changed since Velcro came into her life. Sloths, once largely ignored, have become a hot topic of scientific...

In the early 1990s, Saddam Hussein destroyed the Mesopotamian Marshes, once the richest wildlife habitat in the Middle East. Now one man is making an extraordinary effort to restore both animals and people to the scene of one of the greatest ecocides of the twentieth century. Is it a dream too far? Can man and animal live again in what remains one of the most politically troubled and dangerous places on Earth?

Examines big-game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa and the consequences of treating animals as commodities.