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Why this book? Because Jewish delicatessens are an endangered species and I didn't want to see them go away. I wanted to find out why they were disappearing.
Increasing species numbers, however, may not be possible. The main hurdle, not surprisingly, is politics. The needs of a real conservation effort may require a level of animal protection beyond what is politically possible. That puts conservationists in a bind. Do they push for the tighter levels of protection that...
Indeed, the political realities are sometimes dire. As American environmentalists discovered during former President George W. Bush's Administration, it was difficult enough to preserve existing levels of protection for wildlife, let alone push for tougher standards. Yet if Traill and his colleagues are right, the status quo is not...
See pictures of new species discovered in the Mekong Delta.
“Climate change is no longer a future threat,” McKibben said. “It is a very present crisis breaking over our heads this moment, by far the greatest crisis our species has seen yet.”