Based on a public lecture series, "Extinction: saving the sinking ark," held in Boston at the New England Aquarium during fall 1984.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
Why the ark is sinking / Les Kaufman -- Mass extinctions / David Jablonski -- The Amazon : paradise lost? / Ghillean T. Prance -- Vanishing species in our own backyard : extinct fish and wildlife of the United States and Canada / James D. Williams and Ronald M. Nowak -- Riders of the last ark : the role of captive breeding in conservation strategies / Thomas J. Foose -- Life in the next millennium : who will be left in earth's community? / David Ehrenfeld.