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Natumi takes the lead : the true story of an orphan elephant who finds family
After losing her mother, shy Natumi is rescued by a team from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphanage for baby elephants. At the shelter, Natumi hides behind keepers' legs to watch the other elephants at the shelter. But soon, she meets several other orphans, and the eight of them play together in the surrounding bush. As the babies become closer and more like a real family, they need a leader, someone they can trust. Can Natumi grow into this role? Join the herd to find ot= what happens when they travel back into the wild.
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Where land & water meet
Water and land interrelate in surprising and ambiguous ways, and riparian zones, where land and water meet, have effects far outside their boundaries. Using the Malheur Basin in southeastern Oregon as a case study, this intriguing and nuanced book explores the ways people have envisioned boundaries between water and land, the ways they have altered these places, and the often unintended results.
The Malheur Basin, once home to the largest cattle empires in the world, experienced unintended widespread environmental degradation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After establishment in 1908 of Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as a protected breeding ground for migratory birds, and its expansion in the 1930s and 1940s, the area experienced equally extreme intended modifications aimed at restoring riparian habitat. Refuge managers ditched wetlands, channelized rivers, applied Agent Orange and rotenone to waterways, killed beaver, and cut down willows. Where Land and Water Meet examines the reasoning behind and effects of these interventions, gleaning lessons from their successes and failures.
Although remote and specific, the Malheur Basin has myriad ecological and political connections to much larger places. This detailed look at one tangled history of riparian restoration shows how through appreciation of the complexity of environmental and social influences on land use, and through effective handling of conflict people can learn to practice a style of pragmatic adaptive resource management that avoids rigid adherence to single agendas and fosters improved relationships with the land.
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An elephant in my kitchen : what the herd taught me about love, courage and survival
\"A chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But then she fell in love with conservationist Lawrence Anthony and everything changed. After Lawrence's death, Françoise faced the daunting responsibility of running Thula Thula without him. Poachers attacked their rhinos, their security team wouldn't take orders from a woman and the authorities were threatening to cull their beloved elephant family. On top of that, the herd's feisty new matriarch Frankie didn't like her. In this heart-warming and moving book, Françoise describes how she fought to protect the herd and to make her dream of building a wildlife rescue center a reality. She found herself caring for a lost baby elephant who turned up at her house, and offering refuge to traumatized orphaned rhinos, and a hippo called Charlie who was scared of water. As she learned to trust herself, she discovered she'd had Frankie wrong all along.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Defending the Arctic Refuge
Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most
contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska
and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides
life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds,
and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry
and powerful politicians have sought to turn this unique ecosystem
into an oil field. Defending the Arctic Refuge tells the
improbable story of how the people fought back. At the center of
the story is the unlikely figure of Lenny Kohm (1939-2014), a
former jazz drummer and aspiring photographer who passionately
committed himself to Arctic Refuge activism. With the aid of a
trusty slide show, Kohm and representatives of the Gwich'in Nation
traveled across the United States to mobilize grassroots opposition
to oil drilling. From Indigenous villages north of the Arctic
Circle to Capitol Hill and many places in between, this book shows
how Kohm and Gwich'in leaders and environmental activists helped
build a political movement that transformed the debate into a
struggle for environmental justice. In its final weeks, the Trump
administration fulfilled a long-sought dream of drilling
proponents: leasing much of the Arctic Refuge coastal plain for
fossil fuel development. Yet the fight to protect this place is
certainly not over. Defending the Arctic Refuge traces the
history of a movement that is alive today-and that will continue to
galvanize diverse groups to safeguard this threatened land.
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Bearskin
Rice Moore is just beginning to think his troubles are behind him. He's found a job protecting a remote forest preserve in Virginian Appalachia where his main responsibilities include tracking wildlife and refurbishing cabins. It's hard work, and totally solitary-- perfect to hide away from the Mexican drug cartels he betrayed back in Arizona. But when Rice finds the carcass of a bear killed on the grounds, the quiet solitude he's so desperately sought is suddenly at risk. More bears are killed on the preserve and Rice's obsession with catching the poachers escalates, leading to hostile altercations with the locals and attention from both the law and Rice's employers. Partnering with his predecessor, a scientist who hopes to continue her research on the preserve, Rice puts into motion a plan that could expose the poachers, but risks revealing his own whereabouts to the dangerous people he was running from in the first place.
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Border Sanctuary
The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge lies on the northern bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, about seventy miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. How 2,000 acres of rare subtropical riparian forest came to be preserved in a region otherwise dramatically altered by human habitation is the story M.J. Morgan has uncovered. The story she tells begins and ends with the efforts of the Rio Grande Nature Club to protect one of the last remaining stopovers for birds migrating north from Central and South America. In between, she reconstructs a hundred-year history of the original “two square leagues” of the Santa Ana land grant and of the Mexican and Tejano families who lived, worked, transformed, and ultimately helped save this forest on the river’s edge. As border issues continue to present serious challenges for Texas and the nation, it is especially important to be reminded of the deep connection between the region’s human and natural history from the long perspective Morgan provides here.
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Chomp
When the difficult star of the reality television show \"Expedition Survival\" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
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Nourishing Waters, Comforting Sky
In the Nebraska Sandhills, ranchers on horseback and in pickup
trucks share the range with pronghorn antelope, burrowing owls, and
long-billed curlews. The native grasses grow greener as the cattle
grow fatter. Throughout the region, river otters and mink swim in
streams nourished by springs bubbling up from the High Plains
(Ogallala) aquifer. Over years of close observation, Stephen R.
Jones has gotten to know the Nebraska Sandhills-the
twenty-thousand-square-mile expanse of stunning prairie and
thriving wetlands. He has felt the warm breath of a white-tailed
doe guarding her spotted fawn, learned to communicate with a family
of long-eared owls, and developed an improbable hiking relationship
with a wild turkey. He has documented a breeding bird population
that is growing more diverse and witnessed the long-awaited return
of nesting trumpeter swans. These personal stories, accompanied by
words of insight from Native American leaders, Sandhills ranchers,
and grassland ecologists, help us envision a quiet relationship
with the natural world.
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