Rainforest Hero

Author : Ruedi Suter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3905252899

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Rainforest Hero by Ruedi Suter Pdf

In 1984 Swiss shepherd Bruno Manser trekked through the virgin rainforests of Borneo to live among the jungle's last nomads. In six years among the Penan people, Manser witnessed the wholesale destruction of one of the world's most diverse ecosystems through rapid deforestation. He swore to do everything he could to stop it. Manser's globetrotting campaign brought the world's attention to tropical deforestation. It also made him an enemy of Asia's timber barons. In 2000 he disappeared without a trace. This edition is the export edition, with pictures in black and white. For colour please order directly from the publisher's website. Ruedi Suter's engrossing biography - the first in English - charts Manser's extraordinary journey from a young man who sought to escape civilization for the peace of the jungle to a campaigner who would stand up to oligarchs, lead protests around the globe, and, ultimately, give his life for the forests that he loved.

Author : Ruedi Suter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Conservationists
ISBN : 3905252775

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Rainforest Hero by Ruedi Suter Pdf

In 1984 Swiss shepherd Bruno Manser trekked through the virgin rainforests of Borneo to live among the jungle's last nomads. In six years among the Penan people, Manser witnessed the wholesale destruction of one of the world's most diverse ecosystems through rapid deforestation. He swore to do everything he could to stop it. Manser's globetrotting campaign brought the world's attention to tropical deforestation. It also made him an enemy of Asia's timber barons. In 2000 he disappeared without a trace. Ruedi Suter's engrossing biography - the first in English - charts Manser's extraordinary journey form a young man am who sought to escape civilization for the peace of the jungle to a campaigner who would stand up to oligarchs, lead protests around the globe, and, ultimately, give his life for the forests that he loved.

Author : László Erdős
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783030318062

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Green Heroes by László Erdős Pdf

This book provides an introduction into the diversity of the environmental movement through great characters in the green sector. The book describes inspiring personal achievements, and at the same time it provides readers with information regarding the history, the main directions and the ethical principles of the environmental movement. Some of the most important characters of the movement from all around the world, are included in the book. As well as the title characters, Buddha and Leonardo DiCaprio, other famous environmentalists like Albert Schweitzer, David Attenborough and Jane Goodall are discussed. Some of the less well-known but equally important environmentalists such as Chico Mendes, Bruno Manser, Henry Spira, Tom Regan or Rossano Ercolini are highlighted in the various chapters. The selection of characters represents all major branches within the green sector, ranging from medieval saints to Hollywood celebrities, from university professors to field activists, from politicians to philosophers, from ecofeminists to radicals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Pioneer Drama Service, Inc.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Rocky of the Rainforest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sarah Hines-Stephens
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9781434227652

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Rumble in the Rainforest by Sarah Hines-Stephens Pdf

Wonder Woman teams up with villains Poison Ivy and Gorilla Grodd in an all-out effort to stop a logging company from destroying the rain forest.

Author : Alex Shoumatoff
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780807078242

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The Wasting of Borneo by Alex Shoumatoff Pdf

Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of Borneo In his eleventh book, but his first in almost two decades, seasoned travel writer Alex Shoumatoff takes readers on a journey from the woods of rural New York to the rain forests of the Amazon and Borneo, documenting both the abundance of life and the threats to these vanishing Edens in a wide-ranging narrative. Alex and his best friend, Davie, spent their formative years in the forest of Bedford, New York. As adults they grew apart, but bonded by the “imaginary jungle” of their childhood, Alex and Davie reunited fifty years later for a trip to a real jungle, in the heart of Borneo. During the intervening years, Alex had become an author and literary journalist, traveling the world to bring to light places, animals, and indigenous cultures in peril. The two reconnect and spend three weeks together on Borneo, one of the most imperiled ecosystems on earth. Insatiable demand for the palm oil ubiquitous in consumer goods is wiping out the world’s most ancient and species-rich rain forest, home to the orangutan and countless other life-forms, including the Penan people, with whom Alex and Davie camp. The Penan have been living in Borneo’s rain forest for millennia, but 90 percent of the lowland rain forest has already been logged and burned to make way for vast oil-palm plantations. Among the most endangered tribal people on earth, the Penan are fighting for their right to exist. Shoumatoff condenses a lifetime of learning about what binds humans to animals, nature, and each other, culminating in a celebration of the Penan and a call for Westerners to address the palm-oil crisis and protect the biodiversity that sustains us all.

Author : Twinkl Originals
Publisher : Twinkl
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781914331350

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Rainforest Calling by Twinkl Originals Pdf

If a tree falls in the rainforest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? When Daisy’s teacher gives her special permission to log on to webcams in South America and learn all about the rainforest, she knows that she’s been offered a once-in-a-lifetime experience. What she doesn’t expect is an unlikely video-caller with a very serious problem! Follow Pedro the potoo as he explores each layer of the Amazon rainforest. Can he get through to the humans who are destroying his home before it is too late? Will Daisy answer the animals’ cry for help? The rainforest is calling... Download the full eBook and explore supporting teaching materials at www.twinkl.com/originals Join Twinkl Book Club to receive printed story books every half-term at www.twinkl.co.uk/book-club (UK only).

Author : John Barker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442601051

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Ancestral Lines by John Barker Pdf

In Ancestral Lines, which is based on 25 years of research among the Maisin people, Barker offers a nuanced understanding of how the Maisin came to reject commercial logging on their traditional lands.

Author : Gregory Schwartz,Trevor Decker Cohen
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781506900186

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Bright Green Future: How Everyday Heroes Are Re-Imagining the Way We Feed, Power, and Build Our World by Gregory Schwartz,Trevor Decker Cohen Pdf

Bright Green Future chronicles a renaissance at the edge of a crisis. As climate change shifts our planet towards an uncertain future, a movement of unlikely heroes are building a blueprint for a better world. It’s a world where clean power grows wealth for local communities, resources regenerate themselves, city planning is driven by the people, and healthy soil is our greatest asset. These changemakers have opened a gateway for ordinary people to begin imagining and building the bright future we deserve.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Rain forest ecology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112749432

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World Rainforest Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mark R. Kennedy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780231542784

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Shapeholders by Mark R. Kennedy Pdf

Today, all it takes is one organizational misstep to sink a company's reputation. Social media can be a strict ethical enforcer, with the power to convince thousands to boycott products and services. Executives are stuck on appeasing stakeholders—shareholders, employees, and consumers—but they ignore shapeholders, regulators, the media, and social and political activists who have no stake in a company but will work hard to curb what they see as bad business practices. And they do so at their own peril. In Shapeholders: Business Success in the Age of Activism, former congressman, Fortune 500 executive, and university president Mark Kennedy argues that shapeholders, as much as stakeholders, have significant power to determine a company's risks and opportunities, if not its survival. Many international, multi-billion-dollar corporations fail to anticipate activism, and they flounder on first contact. Kennedy zeroes in on the different languages that shapeholders and companies speak and their contrasting metrics for what constitutes acceptable business practice. Executives, he argues, must be visionaries who find profitable—and probable—collaborations to diffuse political tensions. Kennedy's decision matrix helps corporations align their business practices with shapeholder interests, anticipate their demands, and assess changing moral standards so that together they can plan a profitable route forward.

Author : James P. Collins,Martha L. Crump,Thomas E. Lovejoy III
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199717880

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Extinction in Our Times by James P. Collins,Martha L. Crump,Thomas E. Lovejoy III Pdf

For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite suddenly and mysteriously. What is causing these extinctions? What role do human actions play in them? What do they tell us about the overall state of biodiversity on the planet? In Extinction in Our Times, James Collins and Martha Crump explore these pressing questions and many others as they document the first modern extinction event across an entire vertebrate class, using global examples that range from the Sierra Nevada of California to the rainforests of Costa Rica and the Mediterranean coast of North Africa. Joining scientific rigor and vivid storytelling, this book is the first to use amphibian decline as a lens through which to see more clearly the larger story of climate change, conservation of biodiversity, and a host of profoundly important ecological, evolutionary, ethical, philosophical, and sociological issues.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781771640466

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Great Bear Wild by Anonim Pdf

Ian McAllister, conservationist, photographer, and longtime Great Bear Rainforest resident, takes us on a deeply personal journey from the headwaters of the region’s unexplored river valleys down to the hidden depths of the offshore world. Globally renowned for its astonishing biodiversity, the Great Bear Rainforest is also one of the most endangered landscapes on the planet, where First Nations people fight for their way of life as massive energy projects threaten entire ecosystems. This stunning collection of photographs and personal narrative is the product of twenty-five years of McAllister’s research, exploration, and campaigning for the spectacular area he calls home.

Author : Andrew Westoll
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781551993317

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The Riverbones by Andrew Westoll Pdf

A young man uncovers myth, history, and murder while searching for the soul of an unknown and magical place. Andrew Westoll spent a year living the dream of every aspiring primatologist: following wild troops of capuchin monkeys through the remote Central Suriname Nature Reserve, the largest tract of pristine rainforest left on earth. But that was only the beginning. Westoll left the world of science altogether when he departed Suriname six years ago. But the country itself stayed with him and became a strange obsession. Nestled above Brazil and the Upper Amazon Basin, Suriname has a legitimate claim to the title The Last Eden, as ninety percent of this mysterious country is covered in thick, neo-tropical jungle. Westoll read everything he could find about the old Dutch colony — wild stories about secretive Amazonian shamans, superstitious tribes of ex-African slaves, outlaw Brazilian gold-miners, a ghostly lake with the dead canopy of a drowned rainforest at its surface, and an unsolved political murder mystery that continues to haunt the nation. Five years passed, and Westoll yearned to return to the rainforest. Then the opportunity finally arose. Westoll didn’t think twice — he immediately quit his job, gave away most of his possessions, and kissed the love of his life goodbye. For the next five months, he explored the most surreal country in South America for a glimpse of its quintessential soul. He struggled up dark neo-tropical rivers, immersed himself in Surinamese Maroon culture, and met a cast of characters whose eccentricities perfectly mirrored the strangeness of their land. Westoll maps the natural and human geography of this exotic land while hunting for closure to his strange obsession with it. In the end, he tells a spellbinding story of survival, heartbreak, mystery, and murder.

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Stranded!
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1627242910

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Lost in a Rain Forest by Michael Burgan Pdf

In early 2007, Loic Pillois and Guilhem Nayral went on a 60-mile hike in the Amazon rain forest in French Guiana. Despite having a map and a compass, the two friends became hopelessly lost. They built fires, hoping to attract the attention of planes passing overhead, but their efforts didn't work. For weeks Loic and Guilhem survived by eating frogs, centipedes, turtles, and bird-eating spiders. Would the two men be able to find their way back to civilization before they died of starvation, dehydration, or an animal attack? Lost in a Rain Forest is a heart-stopping collection of true stories that dramatically describe what it's like to be lost and forced to survive in a rain forest. Captivating, first-person accounts of survivors include newlyweds lost in a Costa Rican jungle and a young woman who wandered through the Peruvian rain forest after surviving a plane crash. The book also includes general information about the world's rain forests and the incredible plants and animals that inhabit them. Large color photos, maps, and fact boxes enrich the exciting survival tales. Written in a narrative format, this book is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats.