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    Do We Need Pandas?: The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity
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    Do We Need Pandas?: The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity

    By Ken Thompson

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    How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book Ken Thompson explains what we do and don't understand about biodiversity. We know that most species remain undiscovered, and that biodiversity is gravely threatened by overfishing, habitat loss, pollution and climate change. Life on Earth has previously experienced five episodes of mass extinction, and we are now in the middle of a sixth.

    Do We Need Pandas? surveys the Earth's biodiversity, its origins and some of the threats it currently faces. It then asks how biodiversity loss will affect the human race. Will we even notice, and if we do, what will we notice? It asks what we should be doing to secure the survival not only of the species with which we share the planet, but of ourselves and whether we need to be more concerned about ecosystems as a whole than about iconic species.

    LanguageEnglish
    Publisher UIT Cambridge Ltd.
    Release dateAug 1, 2010
    ISBN9780857840059
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    Do We Need Pandas?: The Uncomfortable Truth About Biodiversity
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    Ken Thompson

    Dr Ken Thompson teaches on the Kew Horticulture Diploma, and was for twenty years a lecturer in the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He writes regularly on gardening for various publications. He is the author of Where Do Camels Belong? and Darwin's Most Wonderful Plants.

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