[Anne Labastille] ☆ Mama Poc: An Ecologist's Account of the Extinction of a Species [a Book] PDF ☆ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB

“This is the first careful account I have ever read of the death of one of the myriad types of creation. Her population count revealed that a mere eighty-two birds remained. It covers the last twenty years not of an individual life but of a form

• Title : Mama Poc: An Ecologist's Account of the Extinction of a Species
• Author : Anne Labastille
• Rating : 4.88 (893 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-12-1
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 320 Pages
• Asin : 0393308006
• Language : English

“This is the first careful account I have ever read of the death of one of the myriad types of creation. Her population count revealed that a mere eighty-two birds remained. It covers the last twenty years not of an individual life but of a form of life. These marvelous birds deserve at the very least an obituary, and Anne LaBastille has given them a fine and moving one.” Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature Every day some species of plant or animal on our planet becomes extinct. In Mama Poc, the bestselling author of Woodswoman and Beyond Black Bear Lake relates her own attempts to halt the decline of a single species of bird found only in Guatemala. This is the story of her life in Guatemala, observing the birds a

This is a tragic story, sensitively recounted, with implications far beyond one species and one lake. of Wyoming Lib., LaramieCopyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. LaBastille also wrote Woodswoman ( LJ 5/1/76) and Beyond Black Bear Lake ( LJ 12/15/86). . Cors, Univ. Her latest book is recommended for all natural history collections.- Paul B. From Library Journal The giant grebe bird ( poc in Mayan) is now extinct: confined to Lake Atitlan in the Guatemalan highlands and probably never numbering more than 300, it has succumbed to both human (the development of the lake as a resort) and natural (an earthquake that permanently lowered water levels and destroyed breeding habitat) influences. The author first saw the birds in 1960; in 1964 she began the campaign to save them that won her the name "Mama Poc" and is chronicled in this memoir; while she failed, it was not from lack of support in either Guatemala City or the loca

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. Anne LaBastille is the author of nine books, including Woodswoman and Woodswoman III