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Bees are disappearing--but they aren't the only species at risk. Populations of fireflies, butterflies, and ladybugs have all been declining in recent years, too. This book explains the growth, spread, and recent declines of each of these four types of insects and shows just how much bugs matter to our world.
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A charming award-winning film from Australia about the endangered rabbit-eared marsupial called the bilby. The 'sweet' idea devised by a ranger and a biologist to help raise money for a bilby sanctuary has single-handedly turned the tables on an almost extinct species. Their 'sweet idea' got the whole country involved. Now chocolate Easter Bilbies outsell Easter Bunnies 8-1! Darrell Lea contributes a percentage of sales to the Bilby Fund, and the...
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The buffalo, an American icon once nearly extinct, has made a comeback. This stirring picture book tells the dramatic story, following bison from the Plains Indians to the cowboys, Teddy Roosevelt to the Dust Bowl, and from the brink of extinction to the majestic herds that now roam our national parks.
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Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan follows a wild polar bear family over three seasons, something no one has done before. Gordon and arctic survival experts travel by boat to far flung Svalbard. They manage to find a polar bear birth den and meet mother Lyra and her cubs Miki and Luca as they emerge from their den. Little is known about the family life of polar bears because no one has been able to follow them this closely before. Gordon helps scientists...
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Experience 24 hours in the life of a rock pool and discover that you don’t have to go to the Sahara Desert or the South Pole to find the world’s most hostile environment, just head for the beach! This enlightening program reveals how rock pools are one of the most dynamic arenas in the natural world, as well as one of the harshest arenas for evolution on earth. Where else would inhabitants endure flood, famine, drought and predators each and every...
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"The moth snowstorm, a phenomenon Michael McCarthy remembers from his boyhood when moths 'would pack a car's headlight beams like snowflakes in a blizzard, ' is a distant memory. Wildlife is being lost, not only in the wholesale extinctions of species but also in the dwindling of those species that still exist. The Moth Snowstorm records in painful detail this rapid dissolution of nature's abundance and proposes a radical solution: that we recognize...
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This educational documentary film chronicles a critical season in the life of the Lake Sammamish kokanee, a unique, little-known species of landlocked salmon with immense cultural and ecological importance. The film follows key characters – a young educator with the Snoqualmie Tribe, a newcomer fish biologist, and a private landowner/activist – as they work together to save this fascinating species and its habitat amid unprecedented development...
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Far to the northwest of Hawaii's main islands are a series of islets, reefs, and atolls known as the Leeward or Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Here, in an area once terribly abused by humans but now protected under U.S. law, one of the most endangered of all marine mammal species-the Hawaiian monk seal-struggles to survive. This video provides a concise view of the monk seal's fragile surroundings and depicts conservation efforts designed to protect...
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Only a few hatchlings in a leatherback turtle brood are destined to make it to adulthood-and although a mature specimen's large size and oily flesh tend to ward off most predators, the majestic marine reptile still faces a wide range of human dangers. Chemical and solid waste pollutants create serious hazards, but the greatest harm comes when leatherbacks are snared as bycatch-a frequent occurrence due to the ineffectiveness of many excluder devices....
93) Missing link
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The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths and monsters. Mr. Link only wants to find the missing branch of his sasquatch family, the yeti of Tibet, and hires Sir Frost to help him search. Unfortunately, Adelina Fortnight -- a fierce woman who has crossed paths with Sir Frost before -- holds the only map, and they are pursued by a villain hired by the Adventuring Society who would like Mr. Link's...
97) Giant pandas
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An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, life cycle, and habitat of these endangered animals.
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The tiger is just one of thousands of animals -- including the ground iguana, the white-rumped vulture, and the partula snail -- currently in danger of becoming extinct, joining the dodo, the marsupial wolf, the great auk, and countless others we will never see again.
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Back from the Brink answers these questions and more as it delves into the threats to seven species, and the scientific and political efforts to coax them back from the brink of extinction. This rich, informational look at the problem of extinction has a hopeful tone: all of these animals' numbers are now on the rise.