Bibliography for Losing Biodiversity
The following references are available in most libraries:
Bryant, Jeannette, ed. Conservation Directory: A list of Organizations, Agencies, and Officials Concerned with Natural Resource Use and Management. National Wildlife Federation, 1995.
Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962.
Chadwick, Douglas H. “Dead or Alive: The Endangered Species Act.” National Geographic. Vol. 187, No. 3, March 1995, pp. 2-41.
Chadwick, Douglas H. “What Good is a Prairie?” Audubon, November-December 1995, pp. 36-46.
Craft, Lucille. “$20,000 For One Fish?” International Wildlife. Vol. 24, No. 6, 1994, pp. 18-21.
Dary, David A.. The Buffalo Book—The Saga of an American Symbol. Avon Books, 1974.
Edwards, Mike. “Pollution in the Former U.S.S.R.” and “Chernobyl.” National Geographic. Vol. 186, No. 2, August 1994, pp. 70-115.
Hodgson, Bryan. “Buffalo—Back Home on the Range.” National Geographic. Vol. 186, No. 5, November 1994, pp. 64-89.
Leopold, Aldo. A Sand County Alamanac, And Sketches Here and There. New York: Oxford University Press, 1949.
Nichols, Michael. “A Fragile Home Threatened by War.” National Geographic. Vol. 188, No. 4, October 1995, pgs. 58-83.
Parfit, Michael. “Diminishing Returns: Exploiting the Ocean’s Bounty.” National Geographic. Vol. 188, No. 5, November 1995, pp. 2-37.
Poten, Constance J. “A Shameful Harvest, America’s Illegal Wildlife Trade,” National Geographic, Vol. 180, No. 3, September 1991, pg. 106-132.
Revkin, Andrew C., and others. “Managing Planet Earth: Forget Nature. Even Eden is Engineered.” New York Times, Science Times, August 20, 2002.
Stein, Sara. Noah’s Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards, Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1993.
Stockholm Environment Intitute, “Great Gransition: The Promise and Lure of the Times Ahead,” 2002. According to NY Times (above) in this book, a group of top geographers, economists, engineers and other experts concludes that the same inventiveness that accelerated the human ascent can be harnessed to soften human impact.
World Wide Web Sites
Wildlife Assessment/Restoration
California Condor Recovery Effort – http://www.dfg.ca.gov/wmd/condor.html
Endangered Species Program – http://endangered.fws.gov
Endangered Species and Wetlands Report – http://www.eswr.com
Invasive Species – http://www.invasivespecies.gov
National Wildlife Federation – http://www.nwf.org
Predatory Bird Research Group. PBRG – http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg
The Nature Conservancy – http://www.tnc.org
Sport Fish and Wildlife Restoration – http://www.restorewildlife.org
World Wildlife Fund – http://www.ucsusa.org
Bison
Great Plains Buffalo Association – http://www.gpbuffalo.org/
National Bison Association – http://www.bisoncentral.com
National Wildlife Federation – http://www.nwf.org/buffalo
Texas Bison Association – http://www.texasbison.org/bisonstory.html
Genetic Education
ACCESS EXCELLENCE about biotechnology – http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/GG/structure.html
Cells Alive – http://www.cellsalive.com/
Cell Biology – http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/activities/cell_cycle/cell_cycle.html
DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor – http://vector.cshl.org/
Genetics Education Center, University of Kansas Medical Center – http://www.kumc.edu/gec/
Human Genome Project – http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/education/education.html
Science Explained, The Cloning of Dolly – http://www.synapses.co.uk/science/clone.html
Thornridge High School Biology Home Page – http://www-ed.fnal.gov/help/97/peretz/inherit/biology.html
National and International Agencies
IUCN World Conservation Organization threatened species list – http://www.iucn.org/redlist/2000/index.html
National Biological Information Infrastructure – http://www.nbii.gov
National Climate Data Center & National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration – http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ol/climate/globalwarming.html
Ocean Conservancy – http://www.oceanconservancy.org/
United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization – http://www.fao.org/
Conservation Organizations
National Audubon Society – http://www.audobon.com/
Cousteau Society – http://www.cousteausociety.org/
Environmental Defense Fund – http://www.edf.org
The Chemical Scorecard – http://www.scorecard.org/
Kids for Saving Earth – http://kidsforsavingearth.org/
The Nature Conservancy – http://www.tnc.org
Union of Concerned Scientists – http://www.ucsusa.org/index.html