Review Of "No Way Home: The Decline Of The World's Great Animal Migrations" By D. S. Wilcove

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Book Review

Publication Date

5-1-2008

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Abstract

Migratory animals are especially vulnerable to habitat loss as they cross many different habitats; in addition, their preservation is especially difficult as so many different governmental jurisdictions must cooperate. This is a current review of the major animal migrations on land, in the sea, and in the air, and the conservation status of the populations involved. Although the great migrations of bison, salmon, monarch butterflies, and shorebirds, for example, are all reduced to a trickle from their original torrent, Wilcove (Princeton Univ.) gives the reader reason to hope for some recovery, as with the wildebeest of the Serengeti. Undergraduates will find this a useful resource since it is broad in scope, nontechnical, well documented in footnotes, and equipped with a good index. General readers may find Wilcove's work less inspiring than classics such as Scott Weidensaul's Living on the Wind (CH, Dec'99, 32-2178), which give a more intimate sense of the sweep of migration and the personalities of scientists involved. The volume is well produced with attractive pen-and-ink drawings, but it lacks graphs or tables for data presentation. Summing Up: Recommended. All libraries.

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