Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer Capa dura - 2016
por Peter P. Marra; Chris Santella
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"Very few people enjoy thinking about the calamitous problem of free-roaming cats and biodiversity, and even fewer dare to talk about it openly. Marra and Santella's book is therefore doubly welcome. It's not only important reading for anyone who cares about nature. With its engaging storytelling, its calmly scientific approach, and its compassionate handling of a highly fraught issue, this is also a book that a person might actually read for pleasure."--Jonathan Franzen
"Cats, most of them unowned free-ranging cats, kill as many as four billion birds in the United States each year. What, if anything, should be done about it? Cat Wars tackles this difficult dilemma. If you are a cat lover, a bird lover, a philosopher, an ethicist, or just anyone interested in gut-wrenching dilemmas, you will find this a gripping book."--Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel
"Here, at last, is what native-ecosystem advocates have been waiting for--a complete, dispassionate examination of America's free-ranging cat debacle. It's all here--from the horrendous bird mortality to the cat-borne pathogens blighting wildlife and humans to the cruelty and futility of Trap-Neuter-Return. Everyone gets to speak--including the feral-cat lobby."--Ted Williams, environmental journalist
"The level-tempered approach of Cat Wars will win many advocates. Anyone interested in the broader topics of a healthy environment and healthy human society will benefit from reading this book. It's as powerful as TV ads featuring the 'crying Indian' in the antilittering campaign of the early 1970s."--Bill Thompson III, editor of Bird Watcher's Digest
"In Cat Wars, Peter Marra and Chris Santella lay out the extraordinary (and extraordinarily devastating) toll that America's favorite pet inflicts on America's favorite birds. At a time when native bird populations are in desperate trouble, and the number of free-ranging cats has never been higher, the authors bring clear-eyed science and commonsense solutions to one of the most polarizing issues in avian conservation. This is an important book, even if the message is not a comfortable one."--Scott Weidensaul, author of Living on the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
"A great overview of a complex and often emotional challenge. Cat Wars unravels yet another layer of the global decline in biodiversity and frames the potentially drastic consequences of inaction."--Grant Sizemore, American Bird Conservancy
"Cat Wars is a brave, engaging, and careful accounting of the cats we love and the devastation they inflict on birds and other wildlife."--John M. Marzluff, author of Welcome to Subirdia: Sharing Our Neighborhoods with Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife
Detalhes
- Título Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer
- Autor Peter P. Marra; Chris Santella
- Encadernação Capa dura
- Edição Hardback
- Páginas 216
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.
- Data de publicação 2016-09
- Ilustrado Sim
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780691167411 / 0691167419
- Peso 1.2 libras (0.54 kg)
- Dimensão 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.1 in. (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.79 cm)
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Temas
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Human-animal relationships, Feral cats - Environmental aspects
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2016016785
- Dewey Decimal Code 636.8
Revisões da mídia
Citações
- Library Journal, 09/01/2016, Page 136
- Publishers Weekly, 09/12/2016, Page 0
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