Silent fields : the long decline of a nation's wildlife /
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=192113 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction; 1. Lost animals: early eliminations by Man; 2. The social background to persecution; 3. To kill a Rat or catch a Kite: methods of control; 4. Killing in Scotland; 5. In on the Act
- searching the record; 6. Birds
- individual species accounts; 7. Mammals
- individual species accounts; 8. Local patterns of persecution: England and Wales; 9. The return of the natives; 10. Modern control
- legal and illegal; 11. Vermin control and wildlife management: where next?; Appendix 1: Summary table of vermin payments extracted from churchwardens' accounts.