Nature in the News

Links

• Encyclopedia of Life www.eol.org

  Browse, search, and contribute to the ultimate online encyclopedia for all living things.

• National Wildlife Federation www.nwf.org

  Get involved in efforts to protect wildlife and its habitats.

• The Marine Mammal Center www.marinemammalcenter.org

  Learn what it takes to rehabilitate marine mammals, meet current patients, and more.

• Mission Blue, Sylvia Earle Foundation www.mission-blue.org/hopespots

  A site dedicated to the importance of our oceans and efforts to protect them

• BBC Nature www.bbc.co.uk/nature/

  Natural history news, games, radio, and more

• The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species www.iucnredlist.org

  Find out more about vulnerable species and current conservation efforts.

• Tree of Life Web Project tolweb.org/tree/

  Delve into the biodiversity of the living world.

• Great Ape Trust www.greatapetrust.org

  A website devoted to our closest living relatives and research concerning their behavior and conservation

• Citizen Science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology birds.cornell.edu/LabPrograms/citSci/

  Learn about birds and contribute to scientific studies.

• The Nature Conservancy www.nature.org/

  Get conservation news, read blog posts, and send e-cards.

• International Wolf Center www.wolf.org

  The ultimate wolf-lover’s website

• Nature, WNET www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/

  PBS’s trusted series on all things natural

Books

• A Sand County Almanac: With Essays on Conservation

  by Aldo Leopold

• The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

  by Lewis Thomas

• The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior

  by Jane Goodall

• Our Inner Ape: A Leading Primatologist Explains Why We Are Who We Are

  by Frans de Waal

• The Ants

  by Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson

• For Love of Insects

  by Thomas Eisner

• Ocean: An Illustrated Atlas

  by Sylvia A. Earle & Linda K. Glover

• Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth

  by Richard Fortey

• The Private Life of Plants

  by David Attenborough

• The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction

  by David Quammen

• The Botany of Desire: A Plant’s-Eye View of the World

  by Michael Pollan

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