New & Noteworthy

In the current issue of Wildlife Conservation

The Human Footprint
According to WCS landscape ecologist Eric Sanderson, people have impacted 83 percent of the Earth’s land surface. However, human influence is not inevitably negative. WCS and other conservation groups are finding solutions to help people and wildlife co-exist.

Kotto’s Story
Scientists struggle to save a baby elephant orphaned deep in the forests of Gabon.

The Bronx Zoo Goes Green
At every conceivable venue—from exhibits, to dining facilities, right down to the new Eco-Restroom—the Bronx Zoo is on its way to becoming one of the greenest places in New York City.


Also featuring

• Nature Off-Off-Broadway, Resuscitating New York Harbor
• Saving the Saiga
• American Wildlife—Hatching a future for diamondback terrapins
• Wild Places—West Virginia’s Canaan Valley

Earth: The Sequel

In Earth: The Sequel—The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming, author and longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund Fred Krupp energizes readers to act on this most pressing environmental issue. Krupp profiles the innovators and investors who are reinventing energy and the ways to use it. He presses the U.S. government to provide the policy support needed to bolster American environmental entrepreneurs. If we act together, Krupp argues, we can solve global warming, and in so doing, build new industries, jobs, and fortunes in the twenty-first century.

Visit www.edf.org to read more about Earth: The Sequel and to watch an interview with author Fred Krupp.

Hidden Giants

Edited by the Wildlife Conservation Society and written by WCS forest elephant coordinator Stephen Blake, Hidden Giants: Forest Elephants is a comprehensive and lively guide to these mysterious and endangered creatures. The book’s scope includes the origin of the species, the workings of its matriarchal society, and the elephant’s vital role in the ecology of the forest. It also focuses on the serious threats that darken the species’ future. A “superb tour d’elephant,” according to science writer Eugene Linden, this companion satisfies even the weightiest curiosities about these huge herbivores.

Copies of Hidden Giants are available for $20 each by e-mailing wcsafrica@wcs.org, attention: Nadya Cartagena. Please send checks payable to Wildlife Conservation Society to Nadya at 2300 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY 10460.

A Naturalist and Other Beasts

Since the 1950s, eminent biologist George Schaller, vice president and science director of WCS, has roamed through many lands, observing wild animals and conducting landmark studies that have deepened our understanding of these creatures. A Naturalist and Other Beasts: Tales from a Life in the Field (Sierra Club Books, 2007) features 19 short pieces, brought together in book form for the first time, that offer a unique overview of his remarkable career.

Schaller describes stalking tigers in India and jaguars in Brazil’s Pantanal swamps, studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda, searching for snow leopards in the Hindu Kush, and his groundbreaking work with giant pandas in Sichuan. Later accounts broaden the focus from individual species to whole ecosystems. “The careless rapture of my early studies has been replaced more and more by efforts to protect animals and their habitats,” he writes.