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"Nina is used to feeling like the odd one out, both at school and in her large family. But while trying to fit in at summer camp, she discovers something even more peculiar: two majestic birds have built a nest in the marsh behind an abandoned infirmary. They appear to be whooping cranes, but that's impossible--Nina is an amateur bird-watcher, and all her resources tell her that those rare birds haven't nested in Texas for over a hundred years. When...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 2000 in the jungles of Panama, a young journalist, named Ana, has a chance encounter with a tiny orphaned sloth, which she names Velcro. For nearly two years, the pair is inseparable until finally Ana travels up a remote river to reintroduce Velcro back to the wild. This is the story Ana’s return to Central and South America to see how much has changed since Velcro came into her life. Sloths, once largely ignored, have become a hot topic of scientific...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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This program observes the National Parks and Wildlife Service as it conducts a training program for Indigenous people to work as wildlife rangers in Kakadu National Park. Local Aboriginal people, with excellent land management skills and a keenness to help preserve the natural beauty and heritage of their land, are learning to combine their practices with those of the Wildlife Service to provide a unique form of management in keeping the park’s...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Follows the quest of professional surfer Dave Rastovich and his friends to protect dolphins, whales and the oceans they all share. Through Dave's journey, a five-year adventure spanning the globe from Australia to the Galapagos, Tonga, California, Alaska and Japan, we see one surfer's quest to activate his community to help protect the ocean and its inhabitants.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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How far would you go to save a species? How I became an elephant is one girl's journey to inspire a movement. When Juliette West set out on a quest to educate herself she got far more than she bargained for. Now she is angry, but her anger is driven by love; love for all that is natural and free. How I became an elephant follows this wide-eyed fourteen year-old from suburban California on her quest to save the world's largest land mammals; a quest...
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Saving H'non volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Young conservationist Chang overcomes the odds to save and return an elephant to its natural habitat.
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Grantravesía, una huella de Océano
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"La tierra es vieja, pero nosotros no, y no debemos olvidarlo. Una fábula entrañable que ilumina la importancia de reconocer que todos los seres vivos tienen un propósito en nuestro mundo maravillosamente complejo y son dignos de nuestro cuidado y estima" --
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Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"A true tale of big cats and even bigger courage, inspired by the personal story of Gir Forest's first female guard and Lion Queen, Rasila Vadher. 'Never look a lion in the eyes,' a mother tells her fearless girl. After a field trip to the Gir Forest, the girl learns all about the rare Asiatic lions of India, and from that day on, she dreams of taking care of them when she grows up. But not everyone thinks a girl has a right to such a dream, and so...
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St. James Press
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.
14) Jane's Journey
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It would be hard to name anyone who has had more of an impact in the realm of animal research and wildlife conservation than Jane Goodall, whose 45 year study of wild chimpanzees in Africa is legendary. In Jane's Journey, we travel with her across several continents, from her childhood home in England, to the Gombe National Park in Tanzania where she began her groundbreaking research and where she still returns every year to enjoy the company of the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Bitter roots: the ends of a Kalahari myth is set in Nyae-Nyae, a region of Namibia located in southern Africa's Kalahari desert, traditional home of the Ju/'hoansi. It updates the ethnographic film record begun in the 1950s by John Marshall, whose films documented 50 years of change, and who together with Claire Ritchie, established a grass-roots development foundation, which Adrian Strong (the filmmaker) joined in the late 1980s. Shot in 2007, two...
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