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Author Miller, Kenton.

Title Trees of life : saving tropical forests and their biological wealth / Kenton Miller and Laura Tangley.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [1991]
©1991

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  333.75 M648T    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Series WRI guides to the environment
World Resources Institute guide to the environment.
Contents What have we got to lose? -- A short history of assaults -- Amazonia: the last frontier? -- Other tropical forests under siege -- What can governments do? -- The forests' volunteer protectors -- What can you do? -- Epilogue: Last stand for North America's old-growth forests -- Appendix 1: Organizations that can help -- Appendix 2: Forests and genetic diversity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-200) and index.
Subject Forest conservation -- Tropics.
Rain forests.
Deforestation -- Control -- Tropics.
Forest policy -- Tropics.
Forests and forestry -- Tropics.
Biodiversity conservation.
Added Author Tangley, Laura.
ISBN 0807085057 paperback
0807085081 cloth
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