Rescuing the planet : protecting half the land to heal the earth

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Label

Rescuing the planet : protecting half the land to heal the earth

Title remainder

protecting half the land to heal the earth

Statement of responsibility

Tony Hiss ; introduction by E.O. Wilson

Creator

• Hiss, Tony

Contributor

• Wilson, Edward O.

Author

• Hiss, Tony

Writer of introduction

• Wilson, Edward O.

Subject

• Conservation of natural resources
• Nature conservation
• Biodiversity conservation

Language

eng

Summary

Beginning in the North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest to a ranch in Mexico, Hiss sets out on a journey to take stock of the "superorganism" that is the earth: its land, its elements, its occupants, its greatest threats, and what we can do to keep it, and ourselves, alive. He invites us to understand not only the scope and gravity of the problems we face in this challenge, but just why protecting half the land is the way to fix them, introducing us to the many institutions and organizations already involved in the fight. -- adapted from jacket

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

333.75/16

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

QH75

LC item number

.H57 2021

Literary form

non fiction