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Kent H. Redford

Kent H. Redford is the principal of Archipelago Consulting in Irvington, New York. Kent was previously director of the WCS Institute and vice president of Conservation Strategies at the Wildlife Conservation Society.

State of the Wild 2010-2011

State of the Wild 2010-2011

A Global Portrait

State of the Wild is a biennial series that brings together international conservation experts and writers to discuss emerging issues in the conservation of wildlife and wild places. Each volume in the series combines evocative writings with a fascinating tour of conservation news highlights and vital statistics from around the world.
 
One-third of each volume focuses on a topic of particular concern to conservationists.

State of the Wild 2008-2009

State of the Wild 2008-2009

A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans

State of the Wild is a biennial series that brings together international conservation experts and writers to discuss emerging issues in the conservation of wildlife and wild places.
 
Each volume in the series combines evocative writings with a fascinating tour of conservation news highlights and vital statistics from around the world. One-third of each volume focuses on a topic of particular concern to conservationists working to protect wildlife and our last wild places.

State of the Wild

State of the Wild

A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands, and Oceans

In wild places where nature thrives, humanity prospers; our well-being is inextricably linked with that of the planet's web of life. In fact, one could argue that the state of the world can be measured by the state of the wild.

But how do we gauge the state of earth's wildlife, wildlands, and oceans?

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity

Large Carnivores and the Conservation of Biodiversity brings together more than thirty leading scientists and conservation practitioners to consider a key question in environmental conservation: Is the conservation of large carnivores in ecosystems that evolved with their presence equivalent to the conservation of biological diversity within those systems? Building their discussions from empirical, long-term data sets, contributors including James A. Estes, David S. Maehr, Tim McClanahan, Andrès J.

Natural Connections

Natural Connections

Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation

Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The most promising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation efforts.

Natural Connections focuses on rural societies and the conservation of biodiversity in rural areas.