Wildness beats in the heart of California's urban areas. In Los Angeles, residents are rallying to build one of the largest wildlife crossings in the world because of the plight of one lonely mountain lion named P-22. Porpoises cavort in San Francisco Bay again because of a grassroots effort to clean up a waterway that was once a toxic mess. And on the Facebook campus in Silicon Valley, Mark Zuckerberg and his staff have provided a home for an endearing...

A tour of the world of the endangered Asian arowana, or "dragon fish," describes the violence, expense, cultural beliefs, and sophisticated smuggling operations surrounding its illegal possession, tracing the author's years-long quest in search of surviving populations.

Asks young readers to guess the identity of eleven endangered animals around the world, with photographs of their faces seen through die-cut openings.

"A vibrant history of the modern conservation movement-told through the lives and ideas of the people who built it. In the late nineteenth century, as humans came to realize that our rapidly industrializing and globalizing societies were driving other animal species to extinction, a movement to protect and conserve them was born. In Beloved Beasts, acclaimed science journalist Michelle Nijhuis traces the movement's history: from early battles to save...

Examines the lives, habits, and bodies of penguins, as well as the dangers of pollution and other threats to their existence.

Examines the lives, habits, and bodies of zebras, as well as their loss of habitat and other threats to their existence.