Nature Conservation

About this book

Complete your New Naturalist collection with Harper Collins's facsimile versions, which are printed on demand. Nature Conservation was first published in 2002.

This volume in the New Naturalist series provides a comprehensive study of wildlife conservation in Britain, concentrating on events in the last 30 years. This edition is produced from an original copy by William Collins.

As our environment is subjected to increasing assault from climatic changes and pollutants, conservation has become a growing concern for both specialists and generalists alike.The first chapter of Nature Conservation considers the political and institutional development of nature conservation and reviews the physical and biological nature of Britain, its geology, climate and wildlife habitats. Subsequent chapters cover the loss of habitats and species, how these losses have been managed and the techniques used to survey and monitor the integration of nature conservation policies in industries from agriculture to forestry and fisheries. Marren continues by discussing how nature conservation has emerged from the sidelines to become a major concern. He addresses the role of the media, weighs up the successes and failures of the conservation movement and looks to what the future may hold.

Contents

Introduction
1 - Where we are now

Part 1 - Dramatis Personae
1 - The Official Conservation Agencies
2 - The Voluntary Army
3 - Conservation Politics: SSSI's and the Law

Part 2 - Wildlife Habitats
1 - Nature Reserves
2 - The Farmed Environment
3 - Woods and Forests
4 - Bricks and Water

Part 3 - Living with Wildlife
1 - Developments: Causes Celebres
2 - Animals That Get in our Way
3 - Biodiversity
4 - Sea Eagles and Parrot's Feathers: Invading and Settling
5 - Summing Up: Whither Nature Conservation

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