Flames of extinction : the race to save Australia's threatened wildlife /
Over Australia's 2019-20 Black Summer bushfire season, scientists estimate that more than three billion native animals were killed or displaced. Many species - koalas, the regent honeyeater, glossy black cockatoo, the platypus - are inching towards extinction at the hands of mega-blazes and the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2021. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- About Island Press
- Subscribe
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Author's Note
- Introduction: Hope from the embers
- Chapter 1: Emblem of a crisis-Koala
- Chapter 2: A land shaped by fire-Firehawk
- Chapter 3: The retreat of the rainforests-Nightcap oak
- Chapter 4: The climate conundrum-Lemuroid ringtail possum
- Chapter 5: Australia's biggest ever bushfire-Regent honeyeater
- Chapter 6: The perils to our waterways-Platypus
- Chapter 7: Extreme conservation-Wollemi pine
- Chapter 8: An army of animal lovers-Bare-nosed wombat