Stinging Trees & Wait-A-Whiles Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist
The book is his record of the time he spent in this remote area and his run-ins with plant, animal, and human species alike. Laurance lived in a tiny town of loggers and farmers, and he witnessed firsthand the impact of conservation issues on individual lives. He found himself at the center of a bitter battle over conservation strategies and became not only the subject of small-town gossip but also the object of many residents' hatred. Keeping ahead of his high-spirited young volunteers, hounded by the drug-sniffing local policeman, and all the while trying to further his own research amid natural and unnatural obstacles, Laurance offers us a personal and hilarious account of fieldwork and life in the Australian outpost of Millaa Millaa. Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles is a biology lesson, a conservation primer, and an utterly energetic story about an impressionable young man who wound up at the epicenter of an issue that tore a small town apart.
Publisher Name | University of Chicago Press |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | NAT |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 0226468968 |
Isbn 13 | 9780226468969 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.92" H x 70.06" L x 26.00" W |
Page Count | 196 |
William Laurance is a senior research scientist with the Smithsonian Institution and Brazil's National Institute for Amazonian Research. The recipient of the American Society of Mammalogists Award for his work on tropical forest fragmentation, he is the lead editor of Tropical Forest Remnants.