An essential guide to assist those surveying for water voles, whether as a professional ecological consultant, a researcher or simply an interested amateur.
An essential guide to assist those surveying for water voles, whether as a professional ecological consultant, a researcher or simply an interested amateur.
This guide provides descriptions of when the bat species resident in Britain and Ireland use natural and human-made rock habitats, how they use them, and the environments each species occupies therein.
This guide provides descriptions of when the bat species resident in Britain and Ireland use natural and human-made rock habitats, how they use them, and the environments each species occupies therein.
Bats have long been the focus of fascination, and sometimes fear: they move faultlessly through the darkness and spend the day hanging upside down in gloomy caverns and cracks - most at home where humans are least comfortable.
Bats have long been the focus of fascination, and sometimes fear: they move faultlessly through the darkness and spend the day hanging upside down in gloomy caverns and cracks - most at home where humans are least comfortable.
The latest in the popular Quick ID Guide series, this compact little book is an easy-to-use identification guide to the whales, dolphins and seals found in southern African waters and the Southern Ocean.
Pangolins have long been sustainably harvested by local communities for their meat and scales, but today the burgeoning trade in these mammals has reached crisis point.
Ninety percent of the worlds megafauna (its larger creatures) have disappeared since humans migrated from Africa and fanned out across the rest of the world.
Wild Ways brings together all the latest studies of the behaviour of southern Africas rich and accessible mammal fauna, describing not only what mammals do, but also the often surprising reasons why they do it, and covers species as diverse as fruit bats, pangolins, lions, rats and whales.
Wild Ways brings together all the latest studies of the behaviour of southern Africas rich and accessible mammal fauna, describing not only what mammals do, but also the often surprising reasons why they do it, and covers species as diverse as fruit bats, pangolins, lions, rats and whales.
Originally published in 1994, A Field Guide to Tracks and Signs of Southern and East African Wildlife quickly became the standard reference to the subject in the region, reprinting many times.
Esteemed for its speed and athleticism, admired for its grace and beauty, coveted for its hunting prowess, the cheetah has nonetheless been harrassed and hounded to the point of extinction.
Esteemed for its speed and athleticism, admired for its grace and beauty, coveted for its hunting prowess, the cheetah has nonetheless been harrassed and hounded to the point of extinction.
Part history, part travelogue, part environmental manifesto, The Last Bonobo forces us to reexamine established modes of conservationwhile blazing a path toward new, sustainable solutions to our most urgent environmental issues.
This up-close, captivating look at an iconic animal traces our complex relationship to bears throughout historyand what they can tell us about ourselves.
An immersive, entertaining journey into the hidden life of the koala, revealing what life is really like up in the trees Clode is a master at popularising science and making the complex understandable An important book that focuses on the koala but is really an impassioned and informed plea for the conservation of Australia s flora, fauna, and wild places.