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People and Wildlife, Conflict or Co-Existence?

People and Wildlife, Conflict or Co-Existence?( )
Editor: Woodroffe, Rosie
Thirgood, Simon
Rabinowitz, Alan
Series title:Conservation Biology Ser.
ISBN:978-0-511-61477-4
Publication Date:Nov 2009
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Digital download and online
List Price:AUD $270.00
Book Description:

Conflict between people and wildlife is a major emerging conservation issue that is difficult to resolve. This book discusses whether, and how, coexistence of people and endangered wildlife may be encouraged, using measures such as novel and traditional farming methods, compensation, sustainable hunting and ecotourism.

Author Biography
(Editor)
Alan Robert Rabinowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 31, 1953. He received a bachelor's degree in biology and chemistry from Western Maryland College and a master's degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee. His dissertation was about the ecology of the raccoon in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

He became a leading big cat conservationist for the Wildlife Conservation Society. He established the world's first jaguar preserve in Belize and a vast tiger preserve in Myanmar. He co-founded the wild cat conservation organization Panthera in 2006. He wrote several books including Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness; Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save Tigers in a Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed; An Indomitable Beast: The Remarkable Journey of the Jaguar; and A Boy and a Jaguar. He died from lymphatic cancer on August 5, 2018 at the age of 64.

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