Saving Our Wildlife

McCoy, J.J.

Crowell-Collier

The complete book of cat health and care

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

Perigee Books

The complete book of dog training and care

Berkley Pub. Co

Discusses how whales have become endangered and the activities of conservation groups

The Plight of the Whales (Impact Books)

Teen & Young Adult

Franklin Watts

Outlines the various procedures by which foods are preserved, grown, and stored, demonstrating how some of these methods may be detrimental to human health

How Safe Is Our Food Supply? (Impact Books Series)

Examines the role of animals in testing for biological research, medical purposes, and consumer products, and discusses controversies raised over such practices.

Animals in Research: Issues and Conflicts (Impact Books)

Traces the history and development of animal protection with special focus on present-day problems and their possible solutions.

In defense of animals

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

Seabury Press

Driven from their natural habitat by the settlement and urbanization of North America, ravaged by hunters, the proud, solitary and beautiful whooping cranes have long been on the verge of extinction. By the mid 1940's, only 27 wild whooping cranes were observed on the birds' winter grounds in the Aransas Wildlife Refuge along the coast of Texas. And in the spring of 1945, these 27 birds - the only wild whooping cranes left in the entire world - flew off as always on the long, hazardous journey to their summer nesting grounds somewhere in the far north of Canada. Where were these nesting grounds? No one knew. Determined to save the cranes as a living species, the National Audubon Society and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working in partnership with the Canadian Wildlife Service, decided that it was imperative to locate the cranes' nesting grounds. Perhaps then measures could be taken to protect the newly hatched fledglings and their parents from animals and human enemies both in the nesting grounds, and along the migration route back to Aransas, studded with hunters who often shot the birds down at random. But few of the conservationists who embarked on the hunt anticipated that it would require eleven summers, and the painstaking exploration of thousands of miles of Canadian wilderness, from Hudson's Bay to the Pacific Ocean, and from the U.S. border to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, before the tiny band of elusive birds would finally be located. Writing in a suspenseful, narrative style, J. J. McCoy has achieved a most unusual work of natural history non-fiction. The reader feels the full excitement and satisfaction of scientific detective work, and the dedication and perseverance it demands, as he follows the biologists, conservationists, and ornithologists in their treks on foot through untracked wilderness, in canoes down rapids-filled rivers, and in helicopters and airplanes over huge forest areas and marshy tundras. But the scope of this book extends beyond its immediate subject. In examining what motivates conservationists, Mr. McCoy quotes a question posed in an editorial on whooping cranes and their plight which appeared in The Christian Science Monitor: "Can a society, whether through sheer wantonness or callous neglect, permit the extinction of something beautiful or grand in nature without risking the extinction of something beautiful or grand in its own character?"

The Hunt for the Whooping Cranes: A Natural History Detective Story

Nature & Ecology

Paul S. Eriksson

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