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How much is really known about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book, Ken Thompson explains what we do and don't understand about biodiversity. We know that most species remain undiscovered, and that biodiversity is gravely threatened by overfishing, habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. Life on Earth has previously experienced five episodes of mass extinction, and we are now in the middle of a sixth. Do We Need Pandas? surveys the Earth's biodiversity, its origins, and some of the threats it currently faces. It then asks how biodiversity loss will affect the human race. Will we even notice, and if we do, what will we notice? It asks what we should be doing to secure the survival not only of the species with which we share the planet, but of ourselves—and whether we need to be more concerned about ecosystems as a whole than about iconic species.
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Ken Thompson is a former senior research fellow and honorary senior lecturer in the department of animal and plant sciences at the University of Sheffield. He is the author of several books, including The Book of Weeds, An Ear to the Ground: Understanding Your Garden, and No Nettles Required: The Reassuring Truth About Wildlife Gardening. He is a coauthor of The Ecology of Seeds.
"Closing with reasons to be cheerful, it offers a fresh and fascinating look at a subject of increasing importance." —Positive News newspaper
"By putting the focus only on what nature can do for us, Thompson leaves open to possibilities that ecosystems that do not deliver sufficient services might be thrown out with all the biodiversity that they contain." —Nature journal
"This readable book persuasively explains the calamity of the modern biodiversity crisis and presents a thoughtful analysis of how best to conserve the world's species." —Plantlife magazine
"To those of us who do not have ready access to scientific periodicals, this short book is a revelation." —Garden Talk
"An accessible and engaging read. The author's ideas are well organized, with specific examples cited to demonstrate what is being discussed." —National Library of Scotland
“I'm not a scientific expert . . . but I could see the well-reasoned logic of Thompson's argument. And, if all those delegates in Nagoya could read this and note that just $5 billion (US) could solve the most urgent conservation problem, they might be won over, too.” —Resource Magazine
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