Endangered Species

David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message - a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world....

Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness....

A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West - and a plea for the protection of these last wild places....

For the first time since its original publication, Singer returns to the major arguments and examples and brings us to the current moment....

An epic of modern-day African wildlife conservation, Called by the Wild is the thrilling story of a pioneering conservationist working with dogs to protect wildlife from poachers....

From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round....

For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore....

Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes....

Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of these beloved species....

Koalas regularly appeared in Australian biologist Danielle Clode's backyard, but it was only when a bushfire threatened that she truly paid them attention....

An homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth, The End of Eden explores climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems....

An award-winning author's stirring quest to find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast Asia's jungles....

What do you think of when you think of nature? Prolific author and National Geographic writer Doug Chadwick’s fresh look at human’s place in the natural world....

Eloquent, insightful, and deeply heartening, In Search of the Canary Tree is the surprisingly hopeful story of ecologist Lauren E. Oakes' search for resiliency in a warming world....

Biodiversity, the diversity of life, is not only fascinating and beautiful, it is the engine of all the world's natural cycles, and the source of many of the resources on which humanity depends....

Emmy Award - winning filmmaker, writer, and naturalist Joe Hutto has done it again....

In this book, the author demonstrates that species are dying out at a rate comparable to the previous mass extinctions....

Beavers, those icons of industriousness, have been gnawing down trees, building dams, shaping the land, and creating critical habitat in North America for at least a million years....

Sweeping and tender, The Loneliest Polar Bear explores the fraught relationship humans have with the natural world, the exploitative and sinister causes of the environmental mess we find ourselves in, and how the fate of polar bears is not theirs alone....

Once a killing ground for whalers hunting a leviathan they called the "devilfish," the San Ignacio Lagoon in Baja, Mexico, is now an environmental and spiritual sanctuary—the only place in the world where animals in their natural aquatic environment routinely seek out human contact....

The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife - and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape....

Popular television host Jeff Corwin takes listeners on a gripping journey around the world to meet the animals threatened by extinction....

Rusty Wilson’s the kind of guy that if he sees you in town, he’ll buy you lunch....

Naturalist Joe Hutto’s latest adventures in wildlife observation take him to Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains....

The Will of Heaven is the powerful true story of how one woman overcame a debilitating addiction - rising from the courtrooms of her past to the grass plains of Kenya as a conservation research scientist....