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Rainforest :Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines

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Rainforest

Rainforest :Dispatches from Earth's Most Vital Frontlines

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4.41 (54 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 29 March, 2018
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Rainforests are the lungs of our planet - regulators of the earth's temperature and weather. They are also home to 50 per cent of the world's animals and plants - which for centuries have been the source of many of our key medicines. And yet we've all heard of their systematic destruction; the raising of trees to make way for plantations of oil palms or cattle, the disenfranchisement of indigenous peoples, and the corruption that leads to illegal logging and pollution. But this is the full story you've never heard: an in depth, wide-ranging, first-hand narrative that not only looks at the state of the world's tropical rainforests today and the implications arising from their continuing decline, but also at what is being done, and can be done in future, to protect the forests and the 1.6 billion people that depend upon them. It is inspirational, too, in its descriptions of the rainforest's remarkable birds and plants ... and its indigenous people. Rainforest is a personal story, drawing on the author's many years' experience at the frontline of the fight to save the rainforests, explaining the science and history of the campaigns, and what it has felt like to be there, amid the conflicts and dilemmas.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781781256367
ISBN10 1781256365
Number Of Pages 448
Item Weight 688 g
Product Dimensions 144 x 222 x 40 mm
Publisher / Reseller Profile Books Ltd
Format hardback
Edition Main
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A spirited book ... revealing just how fascinating rainforests can be ... Juniper's sheer wonderment at the world's rainforests is ever bit as compelling as his environmental passion. -- Jon Wright * Geographical *
People take action when they are inspired. And this is exactly what Tony's book does. It is an incredible, first-hand account of one of the most important environment battles of our time, one that we simply cannot afford to lose. Because a fight for the rainforests is a fight for planet earth. And for the peoples of the world. -- Eric Solheim, Head of the United Nations Environment Programme
Praise for Tony Juniper: 'He is by popular consent the most effective of Britain's eco-warriors * Independent *
One of the top ten environmental figures of the last thirty years -- The ENDS Report
[Tony Juniper] is among the 100 people who are making the decisions that affect your life * Country Life *
[What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? is] a brilliant resume of Nature's New Deal: nurture me and I'll nurture you. -- Nick Crane

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Author's Bio

Dr. Tony Juniper is Britain's best known environmental campaigner. He has published several successful and award-winning books including the Sunday Times bestseller What Has Nature ever done for us? and Saving Planet Earth. He has worked on efforts to conserve tropical forests for more than thirty years, including with BirdLife International, Friends of the Earth (where he served as director) and as an Advisor to The Prince's Rainforests Project. Find him on Twitter @TonyJuniper | www.tonyjuniper.com

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