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Agricultural conservation Arctic Regions Environmental protection Environmental protection Arctic regions Juvenile literature Habitat conservation Habitat conservation Juvenile literature Marine habitat conservation Sustainable agriculture Sustainable aquaculture Wildlife conservationGish, Melissa
Summary: "Una cronología detallada de los hitos del desarrollo impulsa este estudio de vida de las jirafas, incluidos sus hábitats, características físicas y medidas de conservación tomadas para proteger a estos imponentes animales terrestres." --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education and Creative Paperbacks 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.638 GISSummary: Examines efforts by a group of citizens in West Virginia to hold the industrial giant Du Pont responsible for poisoning the drinking water supply as a result of dumping toxic chemicals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEVGish, Melissa
Summary: "A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of monkeys, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these primates"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.8 GISAlkire, Jessie
Summary: This title takes readers to narwhal habitats to understand why narwhals are at risk, what humans are doing to make matters worse, and the ways humans can help to save narwhals and ultimately, Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.543 ALKGish, Melissa
Summary: "A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of swans, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these long-necked water birds."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 598.4 GISGish, Melissa
Summary: "A detailed chronology of developmental milestones drives this life study of alligators, including their habitats, physical features, and conservation measures taken to protect these semiaquatic reptiles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Education 2020
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Summary: "Rather than continue to focus on discrete, geographically bounded bodies of water, ocean advocate and marine-policy researcher Deborah Wright urges a Plan Sea, which reimagines the oceans as the continuous ecosystem it is, not disconnected buckets of salt and plankton. This book proposes that the global marine environment be protected under the precautionary principle. It argues that the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.7 WRIAlkire, Jessie
Summary: This title takes readers to harp seal habitats to understand why harp seals are at risk, what humans are doing to make matters worse, and the ways humans can help to save harp seals and ultimately, Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.748 ALKAlkire, Jessie
Summary: This title takes readers to musk ox habitats to understand why musk oxen are at risk, what humans are doing to make matters worse, and the ways humans can help to save musk oxen and ultimately, Earth. Sidebars, maps, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abdo Publishing 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 599.6478 ALKBuhrman-Deever, Susannah
Summary: "On the Pacific Coast of North America, sea otters play, dive, and hunt for sea urchins, crabs, abalone, and fish in the lush kelp forests beneath the waves. But there was a time when people hunted the otters almost to extinction. Without sea otters to eat them, an army of hungry sea urchins grew and destroyed entire kelp forests. Fish and other animals that depended on the kelp were lost, too....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BUHSummary: Primates have been called the highest order of animal with big brains, adaptability, tool-usage, social structures, and personalities. Learn more about familiar species and discover new ones, such as the newly-found bald uakari and Tapanuli orangutan, as well as the scientists who work with them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: "What do cane toads, cats and Burmese pythons have in common? They're invading our ecosystems! Learn about 10 common invasive species from around the world, exploring how they got into new ecosystems and the damage they've caused. With text organized in all kinds of fun ways, from posters to newspaper articles to comic strips, this funny, highly visual book will keep young readers engaged. Each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2022
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Summary: "A middle-grade guide to environmental stewardship and protecting diverse habitats"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 333.95 DEBSummary: In a two-part special, Carl Safina goes to sea with some of the last remaining swordfish harpooners to experience firsthand one of the world's most sustainable fisheries and to find out why swordfish are the world's best big-fish comeback story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Coal provides half of America's electricity. Examines the explosive forces that have set in motion a conflict between the coal industry and residents of West Virginia. Faced with toxic ground water, the obliteration of 1.4 million acres of mountains, and a government that appeases industry, the heroes launch a valiant fight to arouse the nation's help in protecting their mountains, saving their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BURDaynes, Katie
Summary: "The Arctic ice is melting and the polar bears need our help. They come to Warmland to explain what's really going wrong. Luckily they find a group of lively, sparky kids who jump into action and draw up a BRILLIANT PLAN"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Educational Development Corporation 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.68 DAYSummary: On an exotic Zanzibar island, it was a classic clash: resort development versus villagers dependent on local reefs for their livelihood. This time the villagers won. Once threatened by resort development, Pemba Island's spectacular reefs and lagoons - World Heritage candidates - are now managed by, and for, fishermen. Host Carl Safina fishes with the locals in traditional dhows and dugout...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: Local leaders launched a crusade to end the slaughter of Trinidad's thousand-pound leatherback turtles. 10,000 visitors a year come to the now famous Matura Beach, and local villages make a good living from the tourism. Trinidad's beaches support about 6,000 nesting females a year.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Galante, Forrest
Summary: "Forrest Galante, host of Extinct or Alive and the world's #1 rare species expert, takes readers along with him through the deepest wilderness and most remote and dangerous parts of the world to find all the animals we thought were extinct. In the course of his travels, Galante has been attacked by lions, stung by jellyfish, bitten by snakes and had run-ins with pissed off hippos. Still Alive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GALANTE, FORREST GALMarzluff, John M.
Summary: An ornithologist's personal look at farming practices that finds practical solutions for sustainable food production compatible with bird and wildlife conservation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 577.55 MARSummary: In the rich fishing grounds of New England and Canada, it seemed as if cod would never run out-until they did. Fishing communities from Newfoundland to Massachusetts fell apart. Widespread closures in the 1990s aimed to let the cod recover, but it's been a long wait. In some areas they seem to be gone for good; in others a recovery may have started only recently; and in still others they're not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Summary: This is the story of how local people in Baja, Mexico, stopped hunting "devil-fish" (gray whales), and instead developed a whale-watching co-op that now caters to tourists from all over the world. They're also getting rich by setting fishing rules for themselves that are stricter than the government regulations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012
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Cote, Genevieve
Summary: The shortsighted but well-meaning Mr. King returns in this delightful story about conservation and friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE COTSummary: In the second episode of the two-part special, Carl Safina continues his exploration of swordfish, one of the world's most sustainable fisheries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2012