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100 heartbeats : the race to save earth's most endangered species
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100 heartbeats : the race to save earth's most endangered species

Author: Jeff Corwin
Publisher: New York, NY : Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, ©2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Conservationist Jeff Corwin provides an urgent portrait of the wildlife that is teetering on the brink of extinction. From the forests slipping away beneath the stealthy paws of the Florida panther, to the giant panda's plight to climb ever higher in the mountains of China in search of sustenance, to the brutal poaching tactics that have devastated Africa's rhinoceros and elephant populations, Corwin takes readers on  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Corwin, Jeff.
100 heartbeats.
New York, NY : Rodale : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, c2009
(OCoLC)753429513
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeff Corwin
ISBN: 9781605298474 1605298476 9781605294148 1605294144
OCLC Number: 316019683
Description: xv, 303 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Global warming and habitat loss. The race against extinction ; Losing ground --
Introduced species, pollution, disease. When worlds collide ; Toxic soup ; Their health is at stake --
Education vs. exploitation. Death by unnatural causes ; Exploited to extinction.
Other Titles: One hundred heartbeats
Responsibility: Jeff Corwin.

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"The importance of this absorbing and exciting book is that it bears witness to Earth's vanishing wildlife by an expert who has actually visited the species, one by one. Corwin reports their status

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"A wonderful read filled with great outdoor adventure stories and fresh, interesting science. Jeff Corwin's love of animals shines through these narratives." --Bruce Babb itt, former US Secretary of the Interior, and chairman, World Wildlife Fund "Drawing from his travels to the front lines of the extinction crisis, Jeff Corwin paints a compelling Read more...

 
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