Encounters with Florida's Endangered Wildlife
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Encounters with Florida's Endangered Wildlife

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eBook - ePub

Encounters with Florida's Endangered Wildlife

About this book

Eastern bison roamed Florida into the 1800s. Red wolves disappeared in the 1920s. The dusky seaside sparrow was declared extinct in 1990.

It's too soon to say whether the 116 threatened, endangered, or imperiled animal species currently found in the state will also fall victim to climate change, extermination, overdevelopment, or poisons. But as long as they remain, there will be men and women who work tirelessly on their behalf.

Combining adventure, natural history, and cultural history, Encounters with Florida's Endangered Wildlife features chapters tracking panthers, black bears, whooping cranes, manatees, sea turtles, even ivory-billed woodpeckers--which may or may not be extinct. Join Doug Alderson as he travels into prairies, woods, springs, and ocean to come face to face with these and other captivating creatures and learns firsthand about their strangled lives and fragile habitats.

With a chapter on the impact of non-native populations of Burmese pythons and Rhesus monkeys, as well as a chilling epilogue that imagines the peninsula one hundred years in the future, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to know more about the current state of wild Florida.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. 1. What Is Gone
  7. 2. The Panther Trackers
  8. 3. Keeping Panther Populations Viable
  9. 4. The Whooping Cranes’ Hopeful Comeback
  10. 5. Searching for Bear Dens
  11. 6. Bear Trail
  12. 7. Return of the Ivory-bill?
  13. 8. The Search Continues
  14. 9. Manatee Haven
  15. 10. Florida’s Sea Turtles Hang On
  16. 11. The Salamander Hunter
  17. 12. Mussel Power
  18. 13. Monkeys and Pythons
  19. 14. A Surge of Hope
  20. Epilogue. A Futuristic Scenario
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index