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This work examines the values, policies, challenges, and approaches to endangered species conservation over the past 200 years. Using primary source documents and in-depth analysis of the issues, it tracks the evolution of species protection and conservation in the United States, and offers a brief look at global programs in the United States and other parts of the world.

Title Endangered species : a documentary and reference guide / Edward P. Weber.
Publisher Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood
Distributor New York : Bloomsbury Publishing US
Creation Date 2016
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 1. Wildlife extermination and conservation in a growing nation -- 2. Species protection in the age of industrialization and suburbanization (1916-1970) -- 3. A turning point in the quest to protect endangered species (1970-1981) -- 4. Flashpoints and milestones in species protection (1981-present) -- 5. Species loss around the globe (1918-present) -- 6. Endangered species in the twenty-first century.
Series Documentary and reference guides
Extent 1 online resource (xxxi, 370 pages) : illustrations.
Language English
National Library system number 997012196595805171
MARC RECORDS

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