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Ecology of Indonesian Papua Part One (Ecology Of Indonesia Series Book 6) by Andrew J. Marshall; Bruce M. Beehler is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Ecology of Papua provides a comprehensive review of current scientific knowledge on all aspects of the natural history of western (Indonesian) New Guinea. Designed for students of conservation, environmental workers, and academic researchers, it is a richly detailed text, dense with biogeographical data, historical reference, and fresh insight on this complicated and marvelous region. We hope it will serve to raise awareness of Papua on a global as well as local scale, and to catalyze effective conservation of its most precious natural assets. New Guinea is the largest and highest tropical island, and one of the last great wilderness areas remaining on Earth. Papua, the western half of New Guinea, is noteworthy for its equatorial glaciers, its vast forested floodplains, its imposing central mountain range, its Raja Ampat Archipelago, and its several hundred traditional forest-dwelling societies. One of the wildest places left in the world, Papua possesses extraordinary biological and cultural diversity. Today, Papua's environment is under threat from growing outside pressures to exploit its expansive forests and to develop large plantations of oil palm and biofuels. It is impo

Who reads Ecology of Indonesian Papua Part One (Ecology Of Indonesia Series Book 6)?

Author

Andrew J. Marshall; Bruce M. Beehler

Publisher

Tuttle Publishing

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781462906796

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Nature, History, Travel