Protecting Threatened Animals

by Brendan Gallagher, Debbie Gallagher

Overview

There are places around the world that are important to all peoples. We call these places the world's heritage. The World Heritage series introduces 78 of these World Heritage sites.

Protecting Threatened Animals

Protecting Threatened Animals is about protecting rare and threatened species from the risk of extinction. In this book, you can find out about World Heritage sites that protect animals that the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) considers vulnerable, endangered, or critically endangered.

These sites include:

Everglades National Park, United States - protecting between 80 and 100 critically endangered Florida panthers

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries, China - protecting 500 of the 1,600 endangered giant pandas still living in the wild

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda - protecting almost half of the world's endangered mountain gorillas

Te Wahipounamu, New Zealand - protecting the vulnerable Kea, intelligent alpine parrots

Special features include:

fact files

locator maps

timelines of key dates

"Did You Know?" amazing facts

labeled photographs

glossaries to explain key terms

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781599205823
Publisher:	Black Rabbit Books
Publication date:	01/01/2011
Series:	World Heritage Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

Table of Contents

World Heritage 4

Protecting Threatened Animals 5

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park Uganda 6

Protecting the endangered mountain gorilla

Central Sikhote-Alin Russian Federation 8

Protecting the endangered Amur tiger

Everglades National Park United States 10

Protecting the critically endangered Florida panther

Galápagos Islands Ecuador 12

Protecting the vulnerable Galápagos giant tortoise

Iguaçu National Park Brazil 14

Protecting the endangered giant otter

Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve Honduras 16

Protecting the endangered Central American tapir

Royal Chitwan National Park Nepal 18

Protecting the critically endangered gharial (crocodile)

Shark Bay, Western Australia Australia 20

Protecting the vulnerable Rufous hare-wallaby

Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries - Wolong, Mt Siguniang, and Jiajin Mountains China 22

Protecting the endangered giant panda

The Sundarbans / Sundarbans National Park Bangladesh/India 24

Protecting the endangered Ganges River dolphin

Tasmanian Wilderness Australia 26

Protecting the endangered Tasmanian devil

Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand New Zealand 28

Protecting the vulnerable Kea (alpine parrot)

Ujung Kulon National Park Indonesia 30

Protecting the critically endangered Javan rhinoceros

Index 32

Editorial Reviews

Gr 5–7—Offering a wide range of important historical sites, the Gallaghers draw on the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) list of World Heritage sites. Each book presents a variety of locations, some included because they protect endangered species, others because of their unique ecosystems or landforms, and still others because of the human history represented at the site. Ancient Heritage and Human Masterpieces have many overlapping themes; though each one features unique sites, it's difficult to tell why, in many cases, a location was chosen for one book rather than the other. But this is a small flaw. Overall, the series offers simple descriptions of World Heritage sites, accompanied by vibrant photos and helpful glossary boxes on each page. Issues that impact the places, from poaching to global warming, are presented in such a way that, where a threat is present, it's made clear that a quick fix is not as simple as it might seem. While there is not enough information here for reports, readers will likely catch a travel bug from looking at all the marvelous locations.

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