Table of Contents

Prologue
1: The Goddess of the Yangtze
2: The Amazon of the East
3: Qi Qi
4: A New Hope?
5: The Rarest Animal in the World
6: Everything Is Going to be OK
7: The Politics of Extinction
8: End Game
9: The Hunting of the Snark
10: The Golden Channel
11: So Long, and Thanks For All the Fishing
12: What Have We Learnt?

About the Author

Samuel Turvey was born in Lohja, Finland, and was educated at Bristol Grammar School and St John's Collge, Oxford. He received a D.Phil. in Chinese palaeontology in 2002, and currently works at the Zoological Society of London. He is one of the team of scientists who have developed the EDGE of Existence conservation programme, which aims to identify and protect Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered species.

Reviews

Turvey weaves natural history, ecology, and politics into a tapestry that illusrates the pattern of human impact across the globe. A must-read perspective for those who think of conservation as a vigorous fight to save biodiversity rather than an academic discipline. Written from the point of view of a scientist actively involved in the fight to save the dolphin, the book seethes with personal anger while at the same time being highly scholarly. Quarterly Review of Biology