William Stolzenburg 
Rat Island [EPUB ebook] 
Predators in Paradise and the World’s Greatest Wildlife Rescue

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Rat Island rises from the icy gray waters of the Bering Sea, a
mass of volcanic rock covered with tundra, midway between Alaska and
Siberia. Once a remote sanctuary for enormous flocks of seabirds, the
island gained a new name when shipwrecked rats colonized, savaging the
nesting birds by the thousands. Now, on this and hundreds of other
remote islands around the world, a massive – and massively
controversial – wildlife rescue mission is under way.

Islands,
making up just 3 percent of Earth”s landmass, harbor more than half of
its endangered species. These fragile ecosystems, home to unique species
that evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically
disrupted by mainland predators: rats, cats, goats, and pigs ferried by
humans to islands around the globe. To save these endangered islanders,
academic ecologists have teamed up with professional hunters and
semiretired poachers in a radical act of conservation now bent on
annihilating the invaders. Sharpshooters are sniping at goat herds from
helicopters. Biological SWAT teams are blanketing mountainous isles with
rat poison. Rat Island reveals a little-known and much-debated side of today”s conservation movement, founded on a cruel-to-be-kind philosophy.

Touring
exotic locales with a ragtag group of environmental fighters, William
Stolzenburg delivers both perilous adventure and intimate portraits of
human, beast, hero, and villain. And amid manifold threats to life on
Earth, he reveals a new reason to hope.

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Formato EPUB ● Pagine 288 ● ISBN 9781408825174 ● Casa editrice Bloomsbury Publishing ● Pubblicato 2012 ● Scaricabile 6 volte ● Moneta EUR ● ID 2540108 ● Protezione dalla copia Adobe DRM
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