By Doug Alderson
ISBN-10: 0813034760
ISBN-13: 9780813034768
Eastern bison roamed Florida into the 1800s. purple wolves disappeared within the Twenties. The dusky beach sparrow was once declared extinct in 1990.
It's too quickly to claim no matter if the 116 threatened, endangered, or imperiled animal species at present present in the country also will fall sufferer to weather swap, extermination, overdevelopment, or poisons. yet so long as they continue to be, there'll be women and men who paintings tirelessly on their behalf.
Combining experience, common heritage, and cultural background, Encounters with Florida’s Endangered Wildlife gains chapters monitoring panthers, black bears, whooping cranes, manatees, sea turtles, even ivory-billed woodpeckers--which might or is probably not extinct. subscribe to Doug Alderson as he travels into prairies, woods, springs, and ocean to return head to head with those and different beautiful creatures and learns firsthand approximately their strangled lives and fragile habitats.
With a bankruptcy at the influence of non-native populations of Burmese pythons and Rhesus monkeys, in addition to a chilling epilogue that imagines the peninsula 100 years sooner or later, this publication is a must-read for an individual who desires to comprehend extra concerning the present nation of untamed Florida.
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