One for the Christmas list
2006; Elsevier BV; Volume: 21; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/j.tree.2006.03.011
ISSN1872-8383
Autores Tópico(s)Ecology and biodiversity studies
ResumoLast Christmas, my son was given a Batman Annual, with an eclectic mix of puzzles, competitions, merchandising, comic-strip stories and articles from behind the scenes of recent films. State of the Wild 2006: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands and Oceans is a conservation Annual. It is rather more serious than the Batman Annual and I would imagine buying it for an aware and passionate high-school or undergraduate student in the USA, or for a USA-based conservation populariser or interested non-scientist. In it, they would find a mix of broad essays by top conservationists, many of them very inspiring, although lacking depth, and a few sections containing short topical items of news from the previous year, rather like the ever-popular ‘Briefly’ section of the journal Oryx. They would not find much in the way of scientific analysis; in 300 pages, there are two graphs and one table.
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