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Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Combines engaging facts with photography in a species portrait that reveals the real-life survival challenges that have caused lions to become endangered, sharing information about what kids can do to help.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement--told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Tigers are pretty special -- and so are ground iguanas and partula snails and even white-rumped vultures. But these and many other animals are in danger of disappearing altogether, joining the dodo, the marsupial wolf, the great auk, and countless other animals we will never see again. Using the experiences of a few endangered species as examples, Martin Jenkins highlights the ways human behavior can either threaten or conserve the amazing animals...
56) Whales
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Enterprises
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
Describes the twelve species of whales, threats to their existence, and efforts of the Wworld Wildlife Fund to save whales from extinction.