Foreword by Tony Kendle Introduction What is biodiversity? Biodiversity: where and why? Inside species What is biodiversity worth? Threats to biodiversity Are species necessary? Reasons to be cheerful? Glossary References
A fascinating popular science book that explores why we need to be more concerned about ecosystems than individual iconic species.
Dr. Ken Thompson recently retired as Senior Research Fellow and Honorary Senior Lecturer of the Department of Animal and Plant Sciences at the University of Sheffield. He is author of several books, including The Books of Weeds, An Ear to the Ground: Understanding Your Garden and No Nettles Required: The reassuring truth about wildlife gardening, and co-author of The Ecology of Seeds.
I would recommend this book as a very good read to anyone involved
in nature conservation.
*Journal of Biological Education*
To those of us who do not have ready access to scientific
periodicals, this short book is a revelation.
*Garden Talk*
Do We Need Pandas? is an accessible and engaging read. The author's
ideas are well organised, with specific examples cited to
demonstrate what is being discussed.
*National Library of Scotland*
I'm not a scientific expert [...] but I could see the well-reasoned
logic of Thompson's argument. And, if all those delegates in Nagoya
could read this and note that just $5 billion (US) could solve the
most urgent conservation problem, they might be won over, too.
*Resource Magazine*
Closing with reasons to be cheerful, it offers a fresh and
fascinating look at a subject of increasing importance.
*Positive News*
By putting the focus only on what nature can do for us, Thompson
leaves open to possibilities that ecosystems that do not deliver
sufficient services might be thrown out with all the biodiversity
that they contain.
*Nature*
This readable book persuasively explains the calamity of the modern
biodiversity crisis and presents a thoughtful analysis of how best
to conserve the world's species.
*Plant Life*
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