The game of conservation : international treaties to protect the world's migratory animals / / Mark Cioc

• Autore: Cioc Mark
• Pubblicazione: Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Disciplina: 591.56/8
• Soggetto topico: Migratory animals - Conservation - International cooperation; Wildlife conservation (International law); Animal welfare - Law and legislation; Treaties
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Africa's apartheid parks -- The North American bird war -- The Antarctic whale massacre.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 c
• Titolo autorizzato: The game of conservation
• ISBN: 9780821443606; 0821443607
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910527000803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ohio University Press series in ecology and history.