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Ayensu, Edward S. (ed.). 1980. The Life and Mysteries of the Jungle. Crescent
  Books, New York.
Berra, T. 1998. A Natural History of Australia. Academic Press, San Diego, CA.
BI (BirdLife International). 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx
  Edicions, Barcelona, Spain; Cambridge, UK.
Bielski, V. 1996. Shopper, Spare That Tree! Sierra. The Magazine of the
  Sierra Club, July/August, Vol. 81, No. 4, pages 38-41.
Biondo, B. 1997. In Defense of the Longleaf Pine. Nature Conservancy,
  Sept.-Oct., Vol. 47, No. 4, pages 10-17.
Bohan, V. de, N. Doggart, J. Ryle, S. Trent and J. Williams. 1996. Corporate
  Power, Corruption & The Destruction of the World's Forests. The Case for
  A New Global Forest Agreement. Environmental Investigation Agency,
  London, UK.
Bowermaster, J. 1995. Take this Park and Love it. The New York Times Magazine,
  Feb. 3, pages 24-27.
Collar, N.J. and S.N. Stuart. 1985. Threatened Birds of Africa and Related
  Islands. The ICBP/IUCN Red Data Book, Part I. International Council for
  Bird Preservation and International Union for the Conservation of Nature,
  Cambridge, UK.
Collins, M. (ed.). 1990. The Last Rain Forests. A World Conservation Atlas.  
  Oxford University Press, New York.
Collins, M., J.A. Sayer and T.C. Whitmore. 1991. The Conservation Atlas of    Tropical Forests. Asia and the Pacific. Simon & Schuster, New York.
Currey, D. 1996. The Political Wilderness.  India's Tiger Crisis. The
  Environmental Investigation Agency, London,UK; Washington, DC.
Devall, E. (ed.). 1993. Clearcut. The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry. Sierra
  Club Books/Earth Island Press, San Francisco, CA.
Dietrich, W. 1992. The Final Forest. The Battle for the Last Great Trees of
  the Pacific Northwest. Simon & Schuster, New York, 303 pages.
Dorst, J. 1967. South America and Central America: A Natural History.
  Random House, Inc., New York.
Durrell, L. State of the Ark. Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY.
Ellis, G. and K. Kane. 1991. North America's Rain Forest. The Endangered
  Paradise. NorthWord Press, Minocqua, WI.
Emmel, Thomas C. 1975. Butterflies. A Borzoi Book. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New
  York.
Fragoso, J. and K. Silvius. 1995. Spirits of the Forest. Wildlife
  Conservation, Nov./Dec., Vol. 98, No. 6.
French, H.W. 1996. An African Forest Harbors Vast Wealth and Peril. The New York Times, April 3.
Franklin, N., Bastoni Sriyanto, D. Siswomartono, J. Manansang and R. Tilson.
  1999. Last of the Indonesian Tigers: a Cause for Optimism. In: Riding the
  Tiger. Tiger conservation in human-dominated landscapes. Ed. by J.
  Seidensticker, S. Christie and P. Jackson. Cambridge University Press,
  Cambridge, UK.
Frid, Alejandro. 1997. Apocalypse Cow. Wildlife Conservation, Sept./Oct., Vol.
  100, No. 5. (South Andean Huemul.)
Galster, S. 1996. Russia's Final Roar. Criminal Threats to the Siberian Tiger
  and Local Communities: An Inside Look at a New Fight for Survival.
  Investigative Network, Washington, DC.
Geatz, R. 1996. Cut Carbon, Not Forests. Nature Conservancy, Vol. 46, No. 2.
Geatz, R. 1999. Great Rivers of Yunnan. Conservation in a Changing World.
  Nature Conservancy, May/June, Vol. 49, No. 3.
Grove, N. 1999. Living Planet. Preserving Edens of the Earth. Crown
   Publishers, New York.
Harcourt, C.S. and J.A. Sayer (eds.). 1996. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical
  Forests. The Americas. International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
  Simon & Schuster, New York.
Hilton-Taylor, C. (compiler). 2000. 2000 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
  International Union for the Conservation of Nature, The World Conservation
  Union, Gland, Switzerland; Cambridge, UK.
Ji, Zhao (ed.). 1990. The Natural History of China. McGraw‑Hill Publishing
  Co., New York.
Kennedy, M. (ed.). 1990. Australia's Endangered Species. The Extinction
  Dilemma. Prentice Hall Press, New York.
Kingdon, J. 1989. Island Africa. The Evolution of Africa's Rare Animals and
  Plants. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
Kingdon, J. 1997. The Kingdom Field Guide to African Animals. Natural World
  Series, Academic Press, New York.
Laman, T. 1997. Borneo's Strangler Fig Trees. National Geographic, April,
  Vol. 191, No. 4, pages 38-55.
Lanting, Frans. 2000. Jungles. Ed. by Christine Eckstrom. Terra Editions.
  Taschen, Koln, London, UK.
MacKinnon, J. 1996. Wild China. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Malcolm, B. and N. Malcolm. 1989. The Forest Carpet. New Zealand's Little-
  Noticed Forest Plants--Mosses, Lichens, Liverworts, Hornwortsk, Fork-
  ferns and Lycopods. Craig Potton, Nelson, New Zealand.
Martin, C. 1991. The Rainforests of West Africa. Ecology--Threats--
  Conservation. Birkauser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland. (Translated from
  German.)
Matthiessen, P. 2000. Tigers in the Snow. North Point Press, a Division of
  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York.
McFarlane, R.W. 1992. A Stillness in the Pines. The Ecology of the Red-
  cockaded Woodpecker. W.W. Norton & Co., New York.
McNeely, J.A., K.R. Miller, W.V. Reid, R.A. Mittermeier and T.B. Werner. 1990.
  Conserving the World's Biological Diversity. International Union for the
  Conservation of Nature, The World Bank, World Resources Institute,
  Conservation International and World Wildlife Fund.
Middleton, D. 1992. Ancient Forests. A Celebration of North America's Old-
  Growth Wilderness. Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA.
Mitchell, A.W. 1986. The Enchanted Canopy. A Journey of Discovery to the
  Last Unexplored Frontier, the Roof of the World's Rainforests. Macmillan
  Publishing Co., New York.
Mittermeier, R.A., N. Myers, P.R. Gil, C.G. Mittermeier. 1999a. Hotspots.
  Earth's Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions.
  Cemex, S.A., Mexico City; Conservation International, Washington, DC.
Mittermeier, R.A., A.B. Rylands and W.R. Konstant. 1999b. Primates of the
  World: an Introduction. In: Walker's Mammals of the World, by R. Nowak,
  Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD.
Moffet, M.W. 1997. Tree Giants of North America. National Geographic, Jan.,
  Vol. 191, No. 1.
Mydans, S. 1996a. Resettled Indonesians Find Hard Life. The New York Times,
  Aug. 25.
Nash, N.C. 1994. Vast Areas of Rain Forest Are Being Destroyed in Chile. The
  New York Times, May 31.
NGS (National Geographic Society). 1993. Saving the Big Trees--a League of
  Their Own. National Geographic, Nov.
Nature Conservancy, The. 2000. International Conservation Program: Greater
  China. Nature Conservancy, July/August, page 34.
Newman, J.A. Ruwindrijarto, D. Currey and Hasporo. 1999. The Final Cut.
  Illegal Logging in Indonesia's Orangutan Parks. Environmental Investigation
  Agency, London, UK.
Newman, J., D. Currey and S. Lawson. 2000. Illegal Logging in Tanjung Puting
  National Park. An Update on The Final Cut Report. Environmental
  Investigation Agency, London, UK.
The New York Times. 1997. Asia's Forest Disaster, Sept. 27 (editorial).
Nowak, R.M. 1999. Walker's Mammals of the World. 6th edition, Johns Hopkins
  University Press, Baltimore, MD.
Nyhus, P., Sumianto and R. Tilson. 1999. The Tiger-human dimension in
  southeast Sumatra. In: Riding the Tiger. Tiger Conservation in human-
  dominated landscapes. Ed. by J. Seidensticker, S. Christie and P. Jackson.
  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Oates, J.F. 1999. Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest. How Conservation
  Strategies are Failing in West Africa. University of California Press,
  Berkeley, CA.
O'Neill, T. 1996. Irian Jaya. Indonesia's Wild Side. National Geographic, Feb.
Parfit, M. 2000. Australia. A Harsh Awakening. National Geographic, July.
Paul, S.M. 1998. After the Blaze. Animals, Sept./Oct. (Massachusetts Society
  for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.)
Peck, R.M. 1990. Land of the Eagle. A Natural History of North America.
  Summit Books, New York.
Peters, R.L. and T.E. Lovejoy. 1990. Terrestrial Fauna. In: The Earth as
  Transformed by Human Action. Ed. by B.L. Turner II et al. Cambridge
  University Press, Cambridge, UK.
Preston-Mafham, K. 1991. Madagascar. A Natural History. Facts On File,
  New York.
Russell, C. 1994. Spirit Bear. Encounters with the White Bear of the Western
  Rainforest. Key Porter Books, Toronto, Canada.
Schafer, K. and M. Hill. 1993. The Logger and the Tiger. Wildlife
  Conservation, May/June, Vol. 96, No. 3, pages 22‑29.
Schaller, G.B. 1993. The Last Panda. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago,
  IL.
Silcock, Lisa (ed.). 1992. The Rainforests. A Celebration. Foreword by H.R.H.
  The Prince of Wales. The Living Earth Foundation. Chronicle Books, San
  Francisco, CA.
Strier, K.B. 1992. Faces in the Forest. The Endangered Muriqui Monkeys of
 Brazil. Oxford University Press, New York.
Whitten, T. and J. Whitten. 1992. Wild Indonesia. The Wildlife and scenery
  of the Indonesian archipelago. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
Wilford, J.N. 1994. Australians Find Trees of Dinosaur Vintage. The New York
  Times. Dec. 15.
Wolfe, Art. 2000. The Living Wild. Ed. by Michelle A. Gilders, with essays
  by William Conway, Richard Dawkins, Jane Goodall, John C. Sawhill and George
  B. Schaller. Wildlands Press, Art Wolfe, Inc.
Yates, S. 1992. The Nature of Borneo. Facts On File, New York.


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