Tickets for the Ark by Nesbit, Rebecca

Tickets for the Ark (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781788167079)

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Format: Hardcover
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Tickets for the Ark by Nesbit, Rebecca

Tickets for the Ark

$20.00
Tickets for the Ark by Nesbit, Rebecca

Tickets for the Ark

$20.00
Format: Hardcover
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Our planet hasn't seen the current rate of extinction since the demise of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, and global conservation efforts are failing to halt this. As a society, we face choices which will determine the fate of Earth's estimated 8.7 million species, including humans. As wildlife declines, conservation needs to make trade-offs. But what should we conserve and why? Are we wrong to love bees and hate wasps? Are native species more valuable than newcomers (aka invasives)? Should some animals be culled to protect others, and what do we want the 'natural world' to look like? There are many surprising answers in Rebecca Nesbit's lively, stimulating book, which sows the seeds of a debate we urgently need to have

Author: Rebecca Nesbit
ISBN-10: 1788167074
ISBN-13: 9781788167079
Publisher: Ips - Profile Books
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2022
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.20w x 1.10d
By Rebecca Nesbit
By Rebecca Nesbit
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Rebecca Nesbit is an ecologist and author, writing on science and the ethical questions it raises, in particular in relation to conservation. She is the author of Is that Fish in your Tomato?, which explored the benefits and the risks of genetically modified foods. After graduating from Durham University, she worked in scientific research, chiefly on butterfly migrations, and on a program training honeybees to detect explosives. She has worked for the Royal Society of Biology and Nobel, and is a contributor to Scientific American, The Biologist and Popular Science.

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