The Last Rain Forests : a World Conservation Atlas / Edited by Mark Collins ; Foreword by David Attenborough

Collins, N. Mark. David Attenborough

ISBN 10: 0195208366 / ISBN 13: 9780195208368

Published by New York : Oxford University Press, 1980

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Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 200 pages; Description: 200 p. : col. Ill. ; 30 cm. Subjects: Rain forest ecology. Rain forests. Rain forests --Maps. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 110441

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Last Rain Forests : a World Conservation...

Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 1980

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Lists and illustrates over fifty of the world's rain forests, provides information on the problems facing them, and offers suggestions for their survival.

About the Author:

About the General Editor Mark Collins is Head of the Habitats Data Unit at the World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, England. Trained at Oxford University and Imperial College, London, Collins spent a decade living in the tropics of Asia, Latin America, and Africa, and has carried out ecological research in all the world's major rain forests. The World Conservation Monitoring Centre is a joint venture of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). The World Conservation Union (IUCN) was founded in 1948 as the Internatioanl Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. It is an organization of governments, private organizations, research institutions, and conservation agencies in 120 countries.