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Botanic Gardens

Categorie	Tuin & Tuinieren
Boeknummer	#334283
Titel	Botanic Gardens: Modern Day Arks
Auteur	Oldfield, Sara
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	London etc. : New Holland Publishers
Jaar van uitgave	2010
ISBN10	1847735193
ISBN13	9781847735195
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original glazed pictorial boards in matching dust jacket, decorated endpapers, illustrated with numerous (full page) colour photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting	All life depends on plants but they are often taken for granted in our everyday lives. It is easy to ignore the fact that we are facing a crisis, with scientists estimating that one third of all flowering plant species are threatened with extinction. Modern Day Arks considers the essential conservation role of botanic gardens. Chapters feature gardens from around the world, including the UK, US, Australia, Germany, Turkey, Uganda, South Africa, Mexico, Brazil and China, revealing how a global network is striving to save our botanical heritage. Comments and photographs from the botanists involved lend an important personal angle to the text and reveal the important but little-known work that goes on behind the scenes of these beautiful gardens. In this elegant and engaging book, Sara Oldfield shows how botanic gardens truly are 'modern day arks' safeguarding species and saving resources on which we may soon depend. It is to be published in 2010, a year that sees the culmination of the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation.
Pagina's	240
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 15,00

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