World Atlas of Great Apes and Their Conservation

Julian Caldecott is an ecologist and primatologist by training, doing his doctoral research on macaques in Malaysian rain forests. He has worked on wildlife management and biodiversity conservation throughout the global tropics, including projects to conserve Bornean and Sumatran orangutans, western and Nigerian chimpanzees, and Cross River gorillas. Lera Miles is a biologist with the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre who analyzes threats to biodiversity ranging from global to local scales. Her specialities include species mapping and modeling, vulnerability assessment, and priority-setting. "Great Apes are self-aware, complex communicators, and skilled exploiters of their environment. Yet the most self-aware, the most complex communicator, the most exploitative of all, is now threatening the others with extinction. This book records what we humans know about our closest living relatives, and lays a basis for how we can preserve them for our posterity and theirs."—Colin P. Groves, author of Primate Taxonomy "A well researched, up-to-date, clearly presented compendium of information and analysis relevant to conservation of the great apes. This amount and extent of material has never before been brought together."—Alexander H. Harcourt, University of California at Davis Zusammenfassung Despite the dedicated efforts of many individuals and organizations, the great apes are on the very edge of extinction. This atlas provides an overview of what is known about the six species of great apes - chimpanzee, bonobo, Sumatran orangutan, Bornean orangutan, eastern gorilla, and western lowland gorilla. CONTRIBUTORS: Christophe Boesch Jane Goodall Alexander Harcourt Martin Jenkins William Karesh Edmund McManus Ian Redmond Gemma Smith Craig Stanford Nigel Varty Andrew Whiten And others

Product details

• Authors: Julian Caldecott, Caldecott Julian, Lera Miles, Miles Lera
• Assisted by: Julian Caldecott (Editor), Lera Miles (Editor), Kofi A. Annan (Foreword), Annan Kofi A. (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2005
• EAN: 9780520246331
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24633-1
• No. of pages: 456
• Dimensions: 223 mm x 285 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biological Diversity, TRAVEL / Maps & Road Atlases, Biodiversity, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Travel maps, Biodiversity / Ecosystems, Travel and Leisure maps