Our planet is a precious jewel, a unique oasis of life in a seemingly barren cosmos. Looking at Earth from outer space, one astronaut described it as "piercingly beautiful." But a rapidly growing human population has put a strain on Earth's resources and has wrought alarming and permanent changes in the environment. Untold species of plants and animals have been wiped out forever, and others are in imminent danger of becoming extinct. Ecologist Gordan Orians has suggested that we may be entering a new geologic age -- the Homigicene -- with humankind as the great leveler. "We are carrying so many organisms around the world and depositing them in so many places where they did not formerly live that we are blurring the distinctness of the different regions. At the time, we are destroying habitats where diversity might be maintained." Long at the forefront of nature conservation, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched its revolutionary Living Planet Campaign in response to this dire situation. Instead of focusing on individual species and fragments of land and water, WWF scientists have identified 237 ecoregions -- known for simplicity's sake as the Global 200 -- that best exemplify the terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecoregions on Earth. (For your convenience, a removable, full-color map of Global 200 is included in the back of this book.) The organization is working with governments, industry, and local people around the world to protect these regions from further damage -- the equivalent of creating a fleet of arks safeguarding an irreplaceable cargo for a voyage into the future. Living Planet: Preserving Edens of the earth highlights the precious web of life that WWF's campaign seeks to help save. Lavishly illustrated throughout with stunning four-color photographs, the book features the work of three acclaimed nature photographers: Frans Lanting, Galen Rowell, and David Doubilet. All pioneers in outdoor photography, they have captured on film the fragility and wonder of life on Earth, from the forests of the Andes to the coral reefs of Australia. By bringing the beauty of the Global 200 into living rooms around the world, WWF hopes that readers will be inspired to share in its determination to leave our children a living planet.

Living Planet: Preserving Edens of the Earth

Science & Math

World Wildlife Fund

Biological Sciences

Crown

Depicts animals with spots, including a ladybug, a peacock, a deer, a frog, and a bobcat

Spots

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Cedco Pub

Stripes (World Wildlife Fund)

Animal ABC's

Animals

Depicts animal mothers and their young

Mothers & Babies

An educational way to teach children about insects, Bugs is a wonderfully photographed book with beautiful images capturing bugs in their natural environments. A royalty from the sale of this book will be used to protect endangered species and safeguard our natural resources.

World Wildlife Fund Bugs

Demonstrates the numbers one to twenty with pictures of snakes, lions, dolphins, eagles, and kangaroos

World Wildlife Fund Animal 123's

A flap with a photograph of a clutch of eggs hides a photograph of the animal it belongs to

Look Who's Hatching! (World Wide Life Fund)

An interactive book shows a variety of animals--including a red fox, angelfish, polar bear, camel, pelican, and starfish--in their habitats, describing the specific characteristics that suit them to their environments.

Where Do I Live? (World Wide Life Fund)

Science, Nature & How It Works

Children ages 4-9 can learn about four of the world's distinctive habitats - Savannah, rain forest, arctic, and coral reef - and the animals that live in each in this unique interactive photography-based book. Informative text about each region and its indigenous animals precedes a laminated photo-spread of the habitat. Placing reusable stickers of animals in their appropriate habitat is not only fun for kids, it reinforces what they've learned!

Habitats: A Sticker Activity Book (World Wide Life, Fund, Saving Life on Earth)

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