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Beschreibung
'I'm listening for a ghost. Bright green and yellow, with a tail striped like a bumble-bee, it crouches in wait as the sun sinks below the escarpment...'

Australia is a country celebrated for its wildlife, and yet native species are in crisis. In the last 200 years, Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation. In this book, Justine E. Hausheer encounters the pygmy possums that live high in the Snowy Mountains, hears the booming calls of bitterns from their adopted home in the Riverina's rice fields, crouches after dark in the spinifex grasslands listening for the elusive night parrot, and meets the adorable fat-tailed dunnarts who might hold the answers to reviving the Tasmanian tiger. The Vanishing Wild shows us the harsh reality of the extinction crisis - as well as the future of conservation and what can be done to save Australia's native species.
'I'm listening for a ghost. Bright green and yellow, with a tail striped like a bumble-bee, it crouches in wait as the sun sinks below the escarpment...'

Australia is a country celebrated for its wildlife, and yet native species are in crisis. In the last 200 years, Australia has lost more biodiversity than any other developed nation. In this book, Justine E. Hausheer encounters the pygmy possums that live high in the Snowy Mountains, hears the booming calls of bitterns from their adopted home in the Riverina's rice fields, crouches after dark in the spinifex grasslands listening for the elusive night parrot, and meets the adorable fat-tailed dunnarts who might hold the answers to reviving the Tasmanian tiger. The Vanishing Wild shows us the harsh reality of the extinction crisis - as well as the future of conservation and what can be done to save Australia's native species.
Über den Autor
Justine E. Hausheer is a science writer for the Nature Conservancy. Her favourite stories take her into the field, where she's followed logging elephants through Myanmar, surveyed for sea cucumbers in Manus, and waded into outback waterholes. Her stories have won awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America and have been featured in the Best Australian Science Writing anthology. She holds a master's degree from New York University and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. She now lives on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Genre: Importe, Umwelt
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Ökologie
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781761170393
ISBN-10: 1761170392
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hausheer, Justine E
Hersteller: University of New South Wales Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 209 x 132 x 23 mm
Von/Mit: Justine E Hausheer
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.05.2026
Gewicht: 0,499 kg
Artikel-ID: 135886292

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