Rat Island : Predators in Paradise and the World
Rat Island : Predators in Paradise and the World
Rat Island : Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue.cWilliam Stolzenburg
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Author: William Stolzenburg
Number of Pages: 279 pages
Published Date: 21 Jun 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781608191031
File size: 45 Mb
File Name: Rat.Island.Predators.in.Paradise.and.the.World's.Greatest.Wildlife.Rescue.pdf
Download Link: Rat Island Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue
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"Rat Island" rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other remote islands around the world, a massive-and massively controversial-wildlife rescue mission is under way.Islands, making up just 3 percent of Earth's landmass, harbor more than half of its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by mainland predators-rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders, academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with rat poison. "Rat Island "reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today's conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy.Touring exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.
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Rat Island : Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue.cWilliam Stolzenburg
Author: William Stolzenburg
Number of Pages: 279 pages
Published Date: 21 Jun 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781608191031
File size: 45 Mb
File Name: Rat.Island.Predators.in.Paradise.and.the.World's.Greatest.Wildlife.Rescue.pdf
Download Link: Rat Island Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue
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"Rat Island" rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other remote islands around the world, a massive-and massively controversial-wildlife rescue mission is under way.Islands, making up just 3 percent of Earth's landmass, harbor more than half of its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by mainland predators-rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders, academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with rat poison. "Rat Island "reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today's conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy.Touring exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.
Read online Rat Island : Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue Buy Rat Island : Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue Download and read Rat Island : Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook Rat Island : Predators in Paradise and the World's Greatest Wildlife Rescue