Thank You, Madagascar [[electronic resource] ] : The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly
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| Autore: |
Jolly Alison
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| Titolo: |
Thank You, Madagascar [[electronic resource] ] : The Conservation Diaries of Alison Jolly
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| Pubblicazione: | London, : Zed Books, 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (458 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.72092 |
| Soggetto topico: | Conservationists -- Biography |
| Island ecology -- Madagascar | |
| Jolly, Alison | |
| Naturalists -- Biography | |
| Nature conservation -- Madagascar | |
| Nature conservation | |
| Earth & Environmental Sciences | |
| Ecology | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | BradtHilary |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front Cover; About the Author ; Title Page; Copyright ; Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Foreword ; Introduction: My Adventurous and Astonishing Mother ; Chronology of Events ; Dramatis Personae ; Map of Madagascar ; 1 'Our Country Is Committing Suicide' ; Part I: Villages ; 2: Dancing in the Rainforest ; 3: Burning Baobabs; Death of Children ; 4: David Attenborough, Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur, and School among the Baobabs; 5: Eleanor and the Aye-Ayes; Part II: Politics; 6: Where Indri Sing; 7: Napoleon versus the Zoos; 8: The Bank Corrals the Donors; 9: Dishing Out the Dough |
| 10: Our Cash Killed Bedo11: The Bank Goes to the Forest; Part III: Environment and Development; 12: Golden Bamboo Lemurs of Ranomafana; 13: Patricia Walked the Boundaries; 14: The Village of the Fig Tree; 15: Development Meltdown; 16: Real Life and Dreamworks; 17: President Ratsiraka; 18: Madame Berthe was Dancing; Part IV: Weather; 19: Famine in the South; 20: Lemurs Coping; 21: Scientists, People, Lemurs: Berenty, Bezà Mahafaly and Tsimanampetsotsa; 22: Climate Change; Part V: Money; 23: Durban Vision; Rosewood Massacre; 24: The New Mines; 25: Where are We Now?; References ; Photographs | |
| Photographic Credits Index ; Back Cover | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Thank You, Madagascar is an eyewitness account of attempts to rescue the extraordinary biodiversity of Madagascar and the environment of its people. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Thank You, Madagascar |
| ISBN: | 1-78360-321-6 |
| 1-78360-319-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463712403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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