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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
At a time when we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, renowned scientist Jane Goodall brings us inspiring news about the future of the animal kingdom. With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author, Goodall--along with Cincinnati Zoo Director Thane Maynard--shares fascinating survival stories about the American crocodile, the California condor, the black-footed ferret...
3) Nature girl
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Passionate and willful Honey Santana is taking rude, gullible telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less than enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie Fonda, into the mangroves of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in humility. What Honey doesn’t know is that she’s being followed by her obsessed former employer, Piejack, and her still-smitten ex-husband, Perry, with their protective and wise-beyond-his-years twelve-year-old son,...
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Wildlife biologist Karsten Heuer and his wife, Leanne, follow the five-month migration of 123,000 caribou over mountain ranges and icy rivers to their calving grounds in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, becoming the first humans to ever join a herd on the trek.
Publisher
Digiview Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Marc van Roosmalen is a biologist with a passion for primates. His love of monkeys has taken him on the adventures of a lifetime, to the little known forests of Brazil. Here he has found such unique diversity of life that he has become a professional species hunter, discovering, naming and reclassifying species. He has already named 20 new kinds of monkeys. He is now searching for large unknown mammals in the forest.
Author
Publisher
Creative Homeowner
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A backyard can come alive by creating an environment with plants and spaces that attract nature's most interesting and friendly creatures. Colorful butterflies, uplifting songbirds, and lively toads can enhance the personal garden space, giving pleasure to nature lovers of all ages. National Wildlife Federation'sʼ Attracting Birds, Butterflies, and Other Backyard Wildlife provides over a dozen step-by-step projects for families to do together, making...
11) Trophy
Publisher
The Orchard
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines big-game hunting, breeding, and wildlife conservation in the U.S. and Africa and the consequences of treating animals as commodities.
12) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of Africa, the Thornberry's are filming their latest action-packed wildlife show. They are ready for anything, except for the greedy poachers lurking in the jungle. It's up to Eliza, who can talk to animals, to foil their evil plans. To do this, it will take all her courage, strength and exceptional gifts.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breakingand entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict,...
15) Braving Iraq
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
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?
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of Africa, the Thornberry's are filming their latest action-packed wildlife show. They are ready for anything, except for the greedy poachers lurking in the jungle. It's up to Eliza, who can talk to animals, to foil their evil plans. To do this, it will take all her courage, strength and exceptional gifts.
17) Never cry wolf
Author
Language
English
Description
A report of the author's observations in the Keewatin Lands northwest of the Hudson Bay, on the caribou and wolf populations living there.
Author
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Recounts an expedition through Africa and Asia in which the wildlife photographer author sets out to photograph lions, leopards, cheetahs, and tigers, offering photographs and facts about the big cats as well as tips on photographing wildlife.
20) Big miracle
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story, tells the amazing tale of a small town news reporter and a Greenpeace volunteer who are joined by rival world superpowers to save a family of majestic gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.
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