The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals by Cioc, Mark
The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals by Cioc, Mark

The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals

The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the...
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Author: Mark Cioc
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The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals by Cioc, Mark

The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals

$124.38
The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals by Cioc, Mark

The Game of Conservation: International Treaties to Protect the World's Migratory Animals

$124.38
Author: Mark Cioc
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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The Game of Conservation is a brilliantly crafted and highly readable examination of nature protection around the world.

Twentieth-century nature conservation treaties often originated as attempts to regulate the pace of killing rather than as attempts to protect animal habitat. Some were prompted by major breakthroughs in firearm techniques, such as the invention of the elephant gun and grenade harpoons, but agricultural development was at least as important as hunting regulations in determining the fate of migratory species. The treaties had many defects, yet they also served the goal of conservation to good effect, often saving key species from complete extermination and sometimes keeping the population numbers at viable levels. It is because of these treaties that Africa is dotted with large national parks, that North America has an extensive network of bird refuges, and that there are any whales left in the oceans. All of these treaties are still in effect today, and all continue to influence nature-protection efforts around the globe.

Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Mark Cioc shows that a handful of treaties-all designed to protect the world's most commercially important migratory species-have largely shaped the contours of global nature conservation over the past century. The scope of the book ranges from the African savannahs and the skies of North America to the frigid waters of the Antarctic.



Author: Mark Cioc
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780821418673


Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2010
Scitech Book News 06/01/2010 pg. 47

About the Author
Mark Cioc is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the author of The Rhine: An Eco-Biography, 1815-2000. He is a coeditor of How Green Were the Nazis? Nature, Environment, and Nation in the Third Reich.
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