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  Plastic Pollution and Marine Conservation

  Plastic Pollution and Marine Conservation: Approaches to Protect Biodiversity and Marine Life provides comprehensive knowledge on the consequences of plastic waste in marine environments at different levels, ranging from ecological and biological, to social, economic and political. The book synthesizes historical information, gaps in current knowledge, and recent discoveries by illustrating the main stages that made plastics a global issue for ocean ecosystems and their wildlife. Written by international experts on marine pollution, marine biology, and management of environmental resources, this book explores the main topics of marine plastic pollution such as input quantification, polluting sources, ultimate fate, ecological consequences, and more. This an important resource for a wide audience, including marine conservationists, environmental managers, decision-makers, NGOs, private companies, and activists working to combat plastics in our seas and oceans.

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  African Dawn , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1190min

  In the broken country that is Zimbabwe, only the strongest can survive. Three families - the Bryants, the Quilter-Phipps, and the Ngwenyas - share a history as complex and bloody as the country itself. Dedicated conservationists Paul and Philippa Bryant face an enormous struggle: to save their farm and small herd of endangered black rhinos from corrupt government minister Emmerson Ngwenya. Twin brothers, ex-soldier Braedan and environmentalist Tate Quilter-Phipps join the fight. But the brothers’ own history is fraught, and when they fall in love with the same woman, Natalie Bryant, their rivalry threatens to not only derail the attempt to save the rhinos, but also puts the lives of all involved at risk. And with Emmerson vowing to stop at nothing until he has control of the farm, a bloody showdown seems inevitable. With blood feuds still to settle, every one of these players will be drawn into the fray, and not one will remain unscathed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Richard Aspel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/001063/bk_boli_001063_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The Elephants in the Room: An Excavation , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 406min

  Through the lens of Rowe's relationships with two Kenyan conservationists, Wangari Maathai and Daphne Sheldrick, The Elephants in the Room surveys a number of prejudices that many of us who are fortunate to be born with the privileges attached to our skin color, sex, and access to resources don't like to deal with: Race, misogyny, and the legacy of empire. By examining the two women's memoirs (Unbowed and Love, Life, and Elephants), both of which were launched following talks at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, these metaphorical elephants in the room are combined with a study of the exploitation of actual elephants on the continent of Africa, and the iterations of memory that are disclosed or hidden in the writing of memoirs and the collecting of bones for museums. Like elephants themselves, The Elephants in the Room ranges far, analyzing work by Joseph Conrad, Robert Pogue Harrison, Barbara Gowdy, Willard Price, George Orwell, Adam Hochschild, and others. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Rowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/016638/bk_acx0_016638_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Sharks Never Sleep , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 386min

  Following a year of record numbers of shark attacks, Sharks Never Sleep takes us around the world to meet shark-attack survivors, shark lovers and shark hunters, who tell us of the primal fear of being eaten alive by a wild animal, the unimaginable grief of losing a loved one and extraordinary stories of encounters with sharks. In Ballina on the east coast of Australia, Darren Rogers recounts how he tried to save Japanese surfer Tadashi Nakahara, who was mauled to death by a great white shark. At Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, professional surfer Mick Fanning narrowly escapes the jaws of a great white during the final of one of the world's biggest professional surfing competitions. On the Hawaiian island of Maui, shark-attack survivor Bethany Hamilton heads into monstrous waves to surf, even after having lost her arm to a tiger shark as a 13-year-old junior surfing champion. Explore our complex relationship of fear and fascination with sharks - meeting scientists, conservationists and a host of eccentric characters - in these gripping tales of firsthand encounters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stig Wemyss. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/032070/bk_adbl_032070_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 413min

  Popular television host Jeff Corwin takes listeners on a gripping journey around the world to meet the animals threatened by extinction. It's no secret that our planet is in crisis. Environmental threats such as climate change, pollution, habitat loss, and land degradation threaten the survival of thousands of plant and animal species. In 100 Heartbeats, Jeff Corwin provides an urgent portrait of the wildlife teetering on the brink. 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, Corwin takes you on a global tour to witness firsthand the critical state of our natural world. Along the way, he shares inspiring stories of battles being waged and won by the conservationists on the front lines of defense. The race to save the planet’s most endangered wildlife is under way. Every heartbeat matters. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fred Berman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/014467/bk_adbl_014467_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Effects of Spatial Heterogeneity on Species Richness

  Spatial heterogeneity may have differential effects on the distribution of native and nonnative plant and butterfly species and their interactions. These effects may be scale dependent and may vary for different levels of biological organizations. This book offers an approach to quantify spatial heterogeneity and spatial autocorrelation at multiple spatial scales. The book presents a case study on how to quantify spatial heterogeneity in a forested, mountainous landscape and relate it to native and nonnative plant and butterfly species richness at multiple scales. It shows that including measures of spatial heterogeneity around the sample plots with traditionally used environmental predictors can provide ecologists with an additional explanatory power. It also shows how landscape composition and configuration affect native and nonnative plant and butterfly species. This book is written for ecologists, and conservationists interested in learning how spatial heterogeneity and spatial autocorrelation affect species diversity across the landscape.

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  Sustainable Tourism Dialogues in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

  Focusing on the future of tourism, Sustainable Tourism Dialogues in Africa is inclusive of experienced and emerging researchers, as well as incorporating local stakeholders in the tourism industry: architects, tourism operators, sustainable tourism lobbyists, policy makers, archaeologists, and geographers. The editors are frontline sustainable tourism advocates in Africa, and the book's thematic content is derived from 30 inter-university seminars on sustainable tourism hosted by Sustainable Travel & Tourism Agenda Kenya from 2017 to November 2019. These seminars involved the participation of 17 universities in Kenya, tourism operators, conservationists, developmentalists, investors, policy makers, and students.Every chapter is a voice projecting aspirations for the responsible management of tourism in Africa and promoting the ideals of sustainable tourism that young people in Africa advocate for the industry's future. In so doing, the authors pinpoint the necessary actions for bringing about transformations in sustainable development of tourism. The book thus seeks to encourage debate, while facilitating the development of both theoretical and practical foundations for managing tourism sustainably in Africa.

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  Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2: Creating and Civilizing the American West , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 690min

  In 1790, it was not a given that the young US, bruised and healing from its struggle for independence and populated by fewer than four million inhabitants, would even survive, much less flourish. But the great adventure that came next - the exploration and settlement of the lands lying to the west and stretching to the Pacific Ocean - would build a nation where only a patchwork of Eastern seaboard colonies had existed before.  The first audiobook in this series, Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, & Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders, profiled 50 individuals who made significant contributions to the economic development of a young nation. This second volume follows the saga of more than 100 influential men and women - political and military leaders, religious thinkers, civil rights proponents, suffragettes, African American pioneers, writers and artists, explorers and surveyors, architects, inventors, innovators, medical professionals, and conservationists - who together wove the story of early Western frontier America. The engaging account of their lives forms a unique tapestry of human experience. In the words of the author, “Understanding our distinctive past helps us better comprehend who we are now and who we wish to become.” ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Brian Cummings. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/133483/bk_acx0_133483_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Wild Things, Wild Places: Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 650min

  A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists. From a longtime, much-admired activist, impassioned wildlife proponent and conservationist, former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, four time Academy Award nominee, and Tony Award and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress. In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife conservation, of her coming to know the scientists throughout the world - to her, the prophets in the wilderness - who are steeped in this work, of her travels with them - and on her own - to the most remote and forbidding areas of the world as they try to save many species, including ourselves. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jane Alexander. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004760/bk_rand_004760_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Paddling the Pascagoula , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 458min

  Science magazine describes the Pascagoula River of southeast Mississippi as the last unaltered large river system in the lower 48 states and southern Canada. Along its banks and watershed, 600,000 acres of public lands - wildlife management areas, national forest, wilderness areas, national wildlife refuges, Nature Conservancy preserves - ensure the creation of a tremendous natural river system. To explore this sanctum, authors Ernest Herndon and Scott B. Williams traveled its entire 200-plus mile length by canoe and sea kayak, respectively. Each floated one of two major tributaries, Herndon taking the Leaf, Williams the Chickasawhay. They then met on the main Pascagoula and continued on to the Gulf Coast. Along the way, the two saw alligators and ospreys, conservationists and good ole boys. They ran rapids and explored swamps, dodged logjams and investigated possible pollution sources. The audiobook gives the armchair explorer a vivid feeling of what it would be like to float this wonderful river and provides a wealth of information about what makes it special and the problems that threaten it. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Randall Hunter. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/044065/bk_acx0_044065_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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