Table of Contents: Rewilding North America :

Main Author:	Foreman, Dave, 1946-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington : Island Press, ©2004.
Subjects:	Wilderness areas > North America. Biodiversity conservation > North America. Extinction (Biology) > North America. Réserves de la vie sauvage > Amérique du Nord. Biodiversité > Conservation > Amérique du Nord. Extinction (Biologie) > Amérique du Nord. SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Biological Diversity. NATURE > Animals > Wildlife. Biodiversity conservation. Extinction (Biology) Biodiversität. North America. Nordamerika.
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Table of Contents:

Bad news
The extinction crisis
The pleistocene-holocene event: forty thousand years of extinction
The first wave
The second and third waves
Ecological wounds of North America : direct killing and habitat loss
Ecological wounds of North America : fragmentation, loss of ecological processes, exotic species, pollution, and climate change
Good news
Conservation biology
Rewilding North America
Selecting and designing protected areas: the early days
Selecting and designing protected areas: the past two decades
The importance of wilderness areas
Taking action
Putting the pieces together: building a North American Wildlands network
An ecological approach to wilderness area selection and design
Land management reforms for implementing the North American Wildlands network
Hope for the future.