TY - BOOK AU - Kaufman Les AU - Mallory Kenneth ED - New England Aquarium Corporation TI - The Last extinction SN - 0262111152 AV - QH75 PY - 1986/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - Published in cooperation with the New England Aquarium [by] the MIT Press KW - Nature conservation KW - Wildlife conservation KW - Extinction Biology N1 - Based on a public lecture series, "Extinction: saving the sinking ark," held in Boston at the New England Aquarium during fall 1984; Includes bibliographies and index; Why the ark is sinking / Les Kaufman -- Mass extinctions / David Jablonski -- The Amazon : paradise lost? / Ghillean T. Prance -- Vanishing species in our own backyard : extinct fish and wildlife of the United States and Canada / James D. Williams and Ronald M. Nowak -- Riders of the last ark : the role of captive breeding in conservation strategies / Thomas J. Foose -- Life in the next millennium : who will be left in earth's community? / David Ehrenfeld ER -