Going, Going, Gone?: Animals and Plants on the Brink of Extinction and How You Can Help

by Malcolm Tait

Book Overview

In 'Going, Going, Gone?', 100 conservation organisations around the world each nominate the species that gives them most cause for concern. Between them, they provide an overview of the work that we... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845250273
• ISBN13: 9781845250270
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Think Books
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.9" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

A Beautiful Book on a Terribly Sad Subject!

This book, which deals with endangered species and habitats worldwise, is at once marvelous to view yet saddening. Paging through the gorgeous photographs of cheetahs, Siberian cranes, monarch butterflies, woolly monkeys, corncockles and sumatran rhinos, it's disheartening to read that so many precious species are in danger of extinction. Conversely it cheers the soul to read of the various organizations that are trying to stem the tide and what 'Joe Average Citizen' can do to help. A great deal of information is packed into the two-page spread given each animal, plant, fish, etc. Two photographs illustrate each species. Several short paragraphs describe the species and the reasons for its decline. A 'Fact Box' gives details on that species' lifespan, population, range and the threats they face. Finally a short section on 'What You Can Do' caps off the section. Despite its small size, this book packs a big wallop. The images are disturbing enough but then to read that, for instance, there are only 1,600 giant pandas left on earth is heartbreaking! Anyone concerned with life on earth should read this book...and then take action.

An excellent, though limited, book.

I found this book's assemblage of some one hundred endangered or threatened animals from around the world to be a unique and well done idea. You'll find little favoritism as the animals featured run from the well known to others that you may have never heard of, as well as plants. In particular I found photos of animals I've never seen photographed in books before, like the Pygmy Hog. It also contains a lot of information on conservation groups large and small from around the world. The nature of the book is by no means comprehensive, but rather is a selection of animals, one each recommended by the some one hundred conservation groups featured. It contains little information regarded the animal's lifestyles but mainly centers on their conservation status. Of particular note is that each entry contains a "what can I do?" area, which allows the reader to easily do something more than worry about the crisis.