Catalogue 2026
Introducing....
Woodslane is now a proud distributor of Pelagic Publishing titles!
“Our mission is to publish award-winning books for scientists and nature lovers. Our books support and advance Sustainable Development Goals including: SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-Being, SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities, SDG 13 - Climate Action, SDG 15 - Life on Land and SDG - Life Below Water.”
We publish a mix of scholarly and general readership titles that:
Deliver cutting-edge knowledge, published rapidly in traditional and eBook formats.
Promote best-practice in research techniques and management methods. Encourage and assist practical wildlife investigation and field exploration.
Bridge the gap between scientific theory and practical implementation.
Share wildlife experiences.
Promote taxonomic and identification skills.
Highlight the use of technology in science and wildlife exploration.
101 Curious Tales of East African Birds
A Brief Introduction to Tropical Ornithology
By Colin Beale
Is there any bird as dishonest as the Fork-tailed Drongo? Did you know that the Tawny Eagle is an ‘obligate Cainist’? And what of the irresistible-to-predators and highly cryptic Spotted Thick-knee?
East Africa’s birds are extraordinary in their evolution, diversity and behaviour, often proving to be the unexpected highlight of a safari. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful photographs of each species, this book tells the fascinating, surprising, amusing stories of 101 regularly encountered birds – whether iconic or unjustly overlooked. In the process, the reader is introduced to ornithology in East Africa through the eyes of a passionate birder and professional ornithologist.
Filling a niche between field guide and textbook, 101 Curious Tales of East African Birds offers a wealth of information, including insights on the evolution of birds, the distributions and migrations of species, bird adaptations and senses, their lifecycle, ecology and conservation, as well as cultural and historical associates – each collated and referenced with the latest scientific papers. The author’s deep understanding of this region’s avifauna ensures that there will be new and engaging material for all, whether you have a general interest in wildlife or are a dedicated birder.
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Release Date: September 2023
A Birdwatcher's Guide to Norway
Where, when and how to find Scandinavia's most sought-after birds
By Bjorn Olav Tveit
A Birdwatcher’s Guide to Norway helps you find all the birds of Norway and Svalbard, and guides you in detail to more than 350 of the best birdwatching sites in this beautiful and wild but still highly developed and civilised country.
The book explains in detail: where and when to go, what species to expect and hope for! The best tactics to approach each site, how to use tower hides and observation shelters and other animals you may encounter.
Norway offers some of the most sought-after species in Europe, including King Eider, Steller’s Eider, Gyrfalcon, displaying Capercaillie, Jack Snipe, Ruff and other Arctic shorebirds in full breeding plumage, singing Little Bunting and Arctic Warbler, and many more. The country can be referred to as ‘an easily accessible part of Siberia’.
Packed with 265 photos, 95 maps and comprehensive information about each site, A Birdwatcher’s Guide to Norway an essential travel guide essential for anyone planning a trip to watch birds in Norway or Svalbard.
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240 X 160 mm
Release Date: August 2024
224 pages
COLOUR SECTION(S) 9781784272913 AUD$: 83.99
9781784275082
478 pages
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A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Romania
By Laszlo Rakosy
Through its geographical position, varied topography, particular climate and complex cultural history, Romania has managed to sustain enormously rich biodiversity. Traditional practices, which have survived longer than in most other parts of Europe, have allowed the preservation of large areas of natural habitat, little altered by human activity. All this is reflected in the breadth of lepidoptera encountered in the country – from the dazzling Freyer’s Purple Emperor to the elusive Moorland Clouded Yellow, from the almost bird-like Great Banded Grayling to the diminutive Osiris Blue.
This book considers all the species (and subspecies) of butterflies known to occur in Romania. This identification guide to the butterflies of Romania is set out in a format easy to understand not only by specialists but also for the more general naturalist or butterfly enthusiast. An expansive introduction covers the various life stages (ovum, larva, pupa and imago), biology and ecology, as well as protection and conservation, and butterfly research. The next section identifies the 14 most important habitat types frequented by butterflies in Romania.
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Release Date: January 2025 COLOUR SECTION(S) 9781784274771 AUD$: 97.99
Africa's Threatened Rhinos
A History of Exploitation and Conservation
By Keith Somerville
Africa’s surviving rhinos are under serious threat. Poaching for their horns, massive extermination by ‘sports’ hunters in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, and progressive habitat loss have all driven black and white rhino close to the edge. This book considers human interactions with these magnificent and enigmatic animals – charting hunting for food and hides, and then hunting for horn to meet external demand for this much-coveted commodity, as well as peaceful coexistence, over the course of three millennia.
With only two females alive in a closely protected reserve in Kenya, the Northern White Rhino is on the brink of extinction. The Southern White Rhino was increasing in numbers, but poaching in South Africa, Botswana and Namibia has now reduced the population to fewer than 20,000, while Black Rhino are hovering around the 6,000–6,500 mark, also with the danger of extirpation everywhere but in parts of eastern and southern Africa.
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Release Date: April 2025
9781784274542
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358 pages
AUD$: 83.99
Animals of the surface film
By Marjorie Guthrie, Peter J. Hayward
A calm water surface on any freshwater habitat can support a community of animals and plants of great interest. Some live above the water but in regular contact with it, and others hang down from the surface. This handbook deals with the smaller invertebrate animals of this surface community. Among these are springtails, pondskaters, water boatmen, water beetles and water spiders, as well as protozoa, rotifers and tiny crustaceans.
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210 X 148 mm
100 pages
Release Date: August 2024 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781784275112 AUD$: 69.99
Bats & Ladders
Stories from the Real World
of Bat Conservation
Aphid predators
By George Bemment
Here are the remarkable and captivating tales from one woman’s nearly 40-year career spent looking for bats and their roosts. Humorous and honest, she writes about these fascinating animals, and about dodgy ladders, small spaces and a multitude of characters – sometimes delightful, occasionally awful, but always human.
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124 pages
Release Date: October 2025 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784275815 AUD$: 41.99
By Graham E. Rotheray
Witness nature’s tiny battle: predators versus aphids in miniature colonies. Aphids and their colonies are excellent arenas in which to observe predators in action. A range of insects come to eat or parasitise the aphids or to drink their honeydew.
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210 X 148 mm
84 pages
Release Date: August 2024 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781784275105
AUD$: 78.99
Big Bat Year A Conservation Story
By Nils Bouillard
During his itinerary covering just shy of 30 countries, Nils was lucky enough to encounter no fewer than 400 bat species. But beyond the impressive list, Big Bat Year is a passionate tale about the people who are protecting bats all over the world, the amazing life of these animals and the unique and doughty journey it required to set a world record.
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234 X 156 mm
232 pages
Release Date: July 2023 COLOUR SECTION(S) 9781784273101
61.99
Bird Pellets
A Complete Photographic Guide
By Ed Drewitt
This book is the first comprehensive guide to bird pellets, the undigested remains of food that form together into a ball or sausage-like shape and are regurgitated. It showcases the range of pellets that different bird species produce, including owls, hawks, falcons, corvids such as ravens and magpies, as well as waders – and even garden birds!
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Release Date: September 2024
9781784274719
258 pages
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Birds and Flowers
An Intimate 50 Million Year Relationship
Birding with AI Concepts and Projects for Ornithology
By Jeff Ollerton
Hummingbirds, and the balletic ways in which they feed on flowers, are familiar to most people. But they belong to just one of at least 74 bird families that are known, or suspected, to be pollinators. Relationships between plants and birds first emerged at least 50 million years ago and over time have influenced the evolution of both groups.
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Release Date: May 2024
9781784274511
336 pages
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By Ronald T. Kneusel
Birding with AI introduces readers to the increasingly ubiquitous realm of artificial intelligence and its applications in ornithology and wildlife biology. As well as showcasing the potential utility of deep learning in ornithology, the book demonstrates how to understand, design, implement and evaluate AI models for ornithology and related fields.
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244 X 170 mm
212 pages
Release Date: January 2026 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784276027
AUD$: 168.00
Crossbills and Conifers
One Million Years of Adaptation and Coevolution
By Craig Benkman
Crossbills and Conifers explores an intimate natural historical connection, revealing why crossbills have become an exemplar of diversification and coevolution. Craig Benkman takes readers on his 40-year journey of research and discovery, exploring a series of unique and interrelated findings about the behavior, ecology, evolution and conservation of a remarkable group of birds.
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Release Date: October 2025
9781784275525
224 pages
AUD$: 182.00
Fenland Nature
By Duncan Poyser, Simon Stirrup
While recognising that only a fraction of the Fens is left, Fenland Nature celebrates the breadth of wildlife still to be found in the region, from vast flocks of visiting wildfowl in the winter months, to rare and specialised plants and insects – all illustrated with detailed and evocative photographs.
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Release Date: August 2025
9781784274108
376 pages
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Field Guide to the Snakes of Eswatini
Field Guide to the Birds of North America
By Miles McMullan, Derek Sallmann
Field Guide to the Birds of North America is a complete, compact, and user-friendly guide to all the birds of the USA and Canada (excluding Hawaii). Drawing on years of guiding experience, the book is perfectly designed for use in the field. Pocket-sized and at just 372 pages, it covers 1,100 species –more than any other guide to North America – and includes over 6,000 illustrations.
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9781784275426
By Rupert Wilkey, Sarah Nann
Field Guide to the Snakes of Eswatini offers a complete account of all 63 snake species recorded in the Kingdom of Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland). Each species is illustrated with stunning photographs, over 300 images in all. The species are described in detail, including size, colouration, habits and diet
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Release Date: February 2026
9781784275457
288 pages
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Harbour Ecology Environment and Development in Poole Harbour
Poole Harbour is protected and recognised, nationally and internationally, for its ecological importance. However, it has also been classified as polluted and eutrophic. These twin designations – protected yet polluted – exemplify the condition of many estuaries, making Poole Harbour an ideal subject for elucidating the circumstances behind this apparent paradox.
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292 pages
Release Date: February 2023 COLOUR SECTION(S) 9781784274030
280.00
By John Humphreys, Alice E. Hall
Identifying Bats of
Britain
and Ireland A Field Worker's Guide
By James Shipman
This book will help anyone understand the fun and adventures to be had working with these fascinating animals. Packed with insider information, it offers expert guidance on how to identify bats in the hand. As you learn the process of handling them safely, you will also discover the key features that distinguish one species from another.
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234 X 156 mm 128 pages
Release Date: May 2025
9781784274924
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Rebirding
Restoring Britain's Wildlife
Insects, plants and microclimate
By Benedict Macdonald
Britain has all the space it needs for an epic return of its wildlife. Only six percent of our country is built upon. Contrary to popular myth, large areas of our countryside are not productively farmed but remain deserts of opportunity for both wildlife and jobs. It is time to turn things around. Praised as ‘visionary’ by conservationists and landowners alike, Rebirding sets out a compelling manifesto for restoring Britain’s wildlife, rewilding its species and restoring rural jobs.
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Release Date: June 2026 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781784272197 AUD$: 24.99
By D. M. Unwin, Sarah Corbet
Microclimate is the very local climate close to the ground or another surface. The microclimate around a plant is particularly complex and interesting, and an insect sitting on a leaf may be inhabiting a weather system completely different from the weather outside.
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210 X 148 mm 76 pages
Release Date: October 2024
9781784275341
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Sound Identification of Terrestrial Mammals of Britain & Ireland
By Neil Middleton, Stuart Newson
This ground-breaking volume covers 42 species of terrestrial mammal – from the red deer to the pygmy shrew, from the pine marten to the hedgehog. The subject is introduced for the first time as a single overarching field of study, including guidance on survey methods, analysis of sound recordings and appropriate software. The book covers species in Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands.
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Release Date: February 2024 COLOUR SECTION(S) 9781784273811 AUD$: 140.00
The Conservation and Biogeography
of Amphibians in the Caribbean
By Neftali Rios-Lopez, Harold Heatwole
An expansive and detailed review of the biology of Caribbean amphibians, considering their threats, conservation and outlook in a changing world. Amphibians are the group of vertebrates undergoing the fastest rate of extinction; it is urgent that we understand the causes of this and find means of protecting them.
The Green Woodpecker
The Natural and Cultural History of Picus viridis
By Gerard Gorman
The text is richly illustrated throughout with quality photographs as well as sound spectrograms. Many eye-opening observations of Green Woodpecker behaviour are detailed. This all-encompassing and engaging account has been written for a wide audience, whether professional ornithologist, citizen scientist, amateur birder, woodpecker aficionado or simply someone who wishes to learn more about this curious and remarkable bird.
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Release Date: May 2023
618 pages
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The Merlin
The Ecology of a Magical Raptor
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Release Date: July 2023
9781784274368
By Frank Rennie
The Merlin Falco columbarius is Europe’s smallest falcon, and its breeding presence is often regarded as a key indicator of a healthy natural environment. A highly adaptable species, it displays a variety of intriguing and contrasting behaviours across its extensive Northern Hemisphere range.
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234 X 156 mm 256 pages
Release Date: October 2025
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224 pages
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The Painted Stork
Exploring Ecology and Conservation in India
By Abdul Jamil Urfi
A charismatic and arresting bird, the Painted Stork inhabits the plains and wetlands of India and Southeast Asia. This nearthreatened species provides a good model through which to explore a variety of ecology and conservation issues. As a colonial nester, it is also useful for considering questions related to evolution and the development of avian coloniality.
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Release Date: April 2024
208 pages
83.99
Brown Seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) of Britain and Ireland
By Robert L. Fletcher
Brown Seaweeds (Phaeophyceae) of Britain and Ireland provides the first complete, up-to-date, detailed illustrated guide and keys to the nearly 200 species of brown algae present around the coasts of Britain and Ireland. It is the culmination of over 30 years of field and laboratory studies by the author.
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Release Date: December 2024 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784272470
Frustrating Flowers and Puzzling Plants
Identifying the difficult species of Britain and Ireland
By John M. Warren
If you have tried to identify wildflowers, you’ll already know exactly what is meant by the title of this book. Although a lot of plants are relatively straight forward to recognise, many others are not. Standard wildflower guides tend to provide as much guidance with identifying the easy and distinctive as they do with complex, tricky species.
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Identification Guide to the Non-Native Invasive Plants of Britain
and Ireland
By Fran Giaquinto, Phoebe O'Brien
This accessible guide gives you the tools to be confident in identifying and managing frequently encountered non-native invasive plants in Britain and Ireland. Invasive alien species (IAS) are one of the biggest drivers of global biodiversity loss along with climate change and habitat fragmentation. If allowed to colonise unchecked, they can have irreversible negative impacts on the integrity of the natural environment and associated ecosystem services.
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Release Date: August 2025
9781784275648
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168 pages
AUD$: 83.99
304 pages
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9781784273316
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Treewilding
Our Past, Present and Future Relationship with Forests
By Jake Robinson
As we clear millions of hectares of forests globally, the challenge of restoring these precious ecosystems becomes ever more pressing. The stakes are high: a staggering 95% of Earth’s land could succumb to degradation by 2050. While the task might appear straightforward – simply plant millions of trees – the reality is far more perplexing. Haphazard tree-planting in unsuitable locations can wreak havoc on ecosystems and jeopardise the livelihoods of local communities.
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336 pages
Release Date: October 2024 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784274801
AUD$: 55.99
A Field Guide to Urban Plants
Common Species of Pavements, Walls and Waste Ground
By Alexandra-Maria Klein, Julia Krohmer
In this handy guide, we introduce the most commonplace flowers, shrubs, grasses, mosses and ferns that are to be found on the street, and show the main characteristics by which you can recognise them. Soon you’ll be more alert than ever to the rebellious species of tarmac, wall and gutter as they defy weedkiller, climate change and dog wee.
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Release Date: August 2025
9781784274740
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144 pages
AUD$: 50.99
Countryside History
The Life and Legacy of Oliver Rackham
Are Viruses Alive?
Mind-Altering Stories about Life and Evolution
By Ian D. Rotherham, Jennifer A. Moody
Like one of the ancient trees he wrote about so elegantly and perceptively, Oliver Rackham’s roots run deep while his influence branches far. He was undoubtedly the leading scholar in landscape history and historical ecology, and his work continues to resonate not just with his peers but with a much wider public audience too.
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Release Date: September 2024
438 pages
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By Noga Wies
What, exactly, is life? As young children we are taught about animals such as giraffes, lions, elephants and itsy-bitsy spiders with eight legs; we learn about trees and flowers from the plant kingdom, about toadstools in the woods and fish in the sea. This teaches us to think of living things as discrete entities with characteristic distinguishing features.
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Release Date: November 2025
9781784275778
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140 pages
AUD$: 33.99
Human, Nature
A Naturalist's Thoughts on Wildlife and Wild Places
By Ian Carter
What does it mean to be a part of rather than apart from nature? This book is about how we interact with wildlife and the ways in which this can make our lives richer and more fulfilling. But it also explores the conflicts and contradictions inevitable in a world that is now so completely dominated by our own species.
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Release Date: July 2025
220 pages
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9781784275419 AUD$: 27.99
Invisible Friends
How Microbes Shape Our Lives and the World Around Us
By Jake Robinson
This topical, engaging and original book counters the prevailing narrative of microbes as the bane of society, along the way providing much-needed clarity on the overwhelmingly beneficial role they play. We discover how the microbiome is highly relevant to environmental and social equity issues, while there’s also discussion about how microbes may influence our decisions.
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296 pages
Release Date: September 2025 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784275686 AUD$: 33.99
The Game of Species
An Introduction to Biodiversity
Moss Safari
Exploring the Secret Life in Moss
By Julian Simon Lopez-Villalta
Richly illustrated, accessible and engaging, The Game of Species is structured like the instruction manual for a board game whose separate pieces are individual species. Each chapter explores a different aspect of this game: the origin of the pieces, how they interact with each other, the rules of the different types of board on which species exist.
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Release Date: October 2025 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784275587 AUD$: 61.99
By Andrew Chandler-Grevatt
Embark on an extraordinary journey into the hidden world of moss. Just like adventurers seeking the Big Five animals on an African safari, we invite you to discover the wonders of the microscopic Big Five organisms that dwell within the mosses on our roofs, walls and pavements. Let’s go on a Moss Safari!
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Release Date: September 2025
184 pages
9781784275617 AUD$: 69.99
Traffication
How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It
By Paul Donald
Traffication develops a bold new idea: that the trillions of miles of driving we do each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat loss or intensive farming. The problem is not simply one of roadkill; the impacts of roads are far more pervasive, and they impact our wildlife in many subtle and unpredictable ways.
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Release Date: November 2024 B&W THROUGHOUT 9781784274849 AUD$: 33.99
Ancient Woods, Trees and Forests
Ecology, History and Management
By Alper H. Colak, Simay Kirca
From antiquity until today, trees and woods have inspired artists, writers and scientists; they have shaped cultures and reverberated through belief systems. Yet worldwide forest cover has declined dramatically over the last 1,000 years. Now, primeval forests are only to be found at a few sites unreachable by humans, and even then they are affected by climate change, atmospheric pollution and species extinctions.
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Release Date: July 2025 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781784275396
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Living with Lynx
Sharing Landscapes with Big Cats, Wolves and Bears
The History and Development of Public Participation in Science
By Jonny Hanson
This book investigates a vital and controversial question for conservation and rewilding in Britain and Ireland: could and should we learn to live with lynx, wolves and bears again? We travel back in time, around the world and into the future to explore this contested topic.
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9781784274955
By Wilson Wall, David Morgan
This book charts the historical development of citizen science, from its earliest days with amateur individuals working on their own, to the modern incarnation which often sees large numbers of people cooperating on environmental or health projects. This book will be of great interest to anyone participating in or organising collaborative citizen science projects.
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248 pages
Release Date: December 2025 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784275846
AUD$: 126.00
Protected Species and Biodiversity
A Guide for Planners and Ecologists
By Tim Reed
This book provides a single source of guidance on the protected-species survey data that accompany planning applications. Comprehensive and clear, it is an essential reference for planners and ecological consultants. New development proposals potentially affect protected species on a daily basis.
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280 pages
AUD$: 55.99
256 pages
Release Date: February 2025 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784275020 AUD$: 140.00
Reconnection
Fixing our Broken Relationship with Nature
By Miles Richardson
Reconnection explores our hidden links with nature through the science of nature connectedness, setting out a way to revivify the relationship across society. Here is a route to a meaningful life that unites both human and nature’s wellbeing for a truly sustainable future. What’s more, everybody has a role to play.
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Release Date: October 2024
9781784274856
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280 pages
AUD$: 33.99
Reflections
What
Wildlife Needs and How to Provide it
Reflections Underwater
A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Coral Reef Wonders
By Oded Degany
Coral reefs are one of the world’s great natural wonders: endlessly surprising and mesmerizing kaleidoscopic fractals of color and life. But they are also under serious threat from the effects of climate change and development. Reflections Underwater is a unique, illuminating book that explores a stunning variety of topics and concepts relating to coral reefs.
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Release Date: May 2023
9781784274139
By Dr. Mark Avery
We know how to conserve species and habitats – it’s time to roll out conservation measures on a much bigger scale. This is a societal choice in which every nature lover can play their part. Reflections sets out what is needed, and what part the state, environmental charities and we as individuals can play in making that happen.
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Release Date: October 2023
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248 pages 9781784273903 AUD$: 55.99
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Tadpole Hunter
A Personal History of Amphibian Conservation and Research
By Arnold Cooke
This book describes the history of amphibian conservation and research in Britain. It is packed with unique insights from the author who, in the late 1960s, was probably Britain’s first professional amphibian conservationist. At that time, the situation for amphibians was extremely serious after three decades of population decline.
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Release Date: November 2023
305 pages
COLOUR SECTION(S) 9781784274481 AUD$: 83.99
A Miscellany of Bats
By M. Brock Fenton, Jens Rydell
Bats have long been the focus of fascination, and sometimes fear: they move faultlessly through the darkness and spend the day hanging upside down in gloomy caverns and cracks – most at home where humans are least comfortable. Bats also represent a hugely important, numerous and varied group, accounting for 20% of all mammal species worldwide.
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256 pages
Release Date: April 2023 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781784272944
89.99
Animals under logs and stones
A Wildlife Guide to Georgia
By C. Philip Wheater, Helen J. Read
Logs, stones, and the like provide an interesting interface between the damp depths of the soil and the drier open ground surface, offering refuges for a fascinating array of animals. The communities of organisms that live beneath them are little noticed and even less studied, yet the potential for ecological work here is great. Some of the animals are relatively large and frequently not difficult to find.
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By Brecht De Meulenaer
Considered by many to be one of the most interesting, varied and biodiverse destinations in the Western Palearctic, Georgia has a great deal to offer for the naturalist-traveller. This guidebook is the first of its kind for the area, not only giving information on where to go birding, but also covering mammals, reptiles, butterflies, dragonflies, flora and numerous other items of note.
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144 pages
Release Date: January 2025 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781784273019 AUD$: 69.99
Ants are found everywhere from garden to mountaintop. They are at their most diverse in the tropics, but that does not make the 60 or so species in our part of the world any less intriguing or significant. As social insects, ants have fascinating life histories. Ecologically, they are highly important and influential.
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Release Date: May 2025
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Ants
By Gary J. Skinner, Andrew P. Jarman
Clinging to the Edge
A Year in the Life of a Little Tern Colony
By Richard Boon
A summer migrant to Europe from West Africa, the Little Tern is one of our most threatened and most captivating seabirds. This book is the story of one breeding season at the Beacon Ponds colony on the North Sea coast, near Spurn Point in East Yorkshire. In elegant and evocative prose it offers an intimate portrait of these endangered birds, covering everything from foraging and breeding to predators and conservation.
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234 X 156 mm
Release Date: January 2025
9781784274894
152 pages
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AUD$: 78.99
Pine Marten
The Secret Life of Martes martes
No Island Too Far Searching for Seabirds on Remote Specks of Land
By Dan Bagur
Offering new insights into how they grow, learn and live, this book delves deep into the secretive behaviour of one of our rarest and most elusive mammals. It covers Pine Marten social interactions, courtship, mating, nesting and kit rearing, feeding and diet, as well as relationships with other wildlife. It also examines the considerable advantages of having these animals around and why it is in our interest to help them.
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234 X 156 mm
Release Date: June 2025
9781784274276
232 pages
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AUD$: 78.99
By Michael Brooke
Through a lifetime of biological and seabird research, Michael Brooke has been blessed with the opportunity to visit a huge array of islands dotted across all the oceans of the world. His is an island list fit to make the armchair traveller green with envy – and potentially seasick. Truly no island has been too far
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234 X 156 mm
Release Date: October 2025
9781784275921
312 pages
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AUD$: 75.00
Purposeful Birdwatching
By Rob Hume
Illuminatingly illustrated throughout with the author’s sketches and fieldnotes, at its heart this is a call to appreciate birds for themselves, as individuals and as species, and not merely as numbers on a list. It will help lead beginners towards a practical and more satisfying hobby, while also being of great interest to experienced birders who will relate to the content through their own experiences.
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234 X 156 mm
304 pages
Release Date: May 2024 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784274689
AUD$: 61.99
Rhythms of Nature
Wildlife and Wild Places Between the Moors
By Ian Carter
Time outdoors is always well spent. It raises the spirits, sparks the imagination and, as research increasingly shows, measurably improves our physical and mental wellbeing. Rhythms of Nature celebrates this fundamental relationship with the natural world, and considers some ways we might rediscover it.
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178 X 127 mm
Release Date: October 2025
9781784275402
Paperback
216 pages
AUD$: 27.99
The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife
Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution
Southern African Moths and their Caterpillars
By Hermann Staude, Mike Picker
Southern Africa boasts wonderful invertebrate diversity and abundance. In this book, approximately 1,500 species of the region’s moths – and most of their caterpillars – are illustrated with images of live specimens. A diagnosis based on visible characters is provided, also enabling the user to readily identify many closely related species not illustrated.
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245 X 168 mm
By Lee Raye
What was the state of wildlife in Britain and Ireland before modern records began? The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife looks at the era before climate change, before the intensification of agriculture, before even the Industrial Revolution. In the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, beavers still swim in the River Ness. Isolated populations of wolves and lynxes linger in the uplands. Sea eagles are widespread around the coasts. Wildcats and pine martens remain common in the Lake District.
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244 X 170 mm
408 pages
Release Date: October 2023 B&W THROUGHOUT
9781784274078
464 pages
Release Date: December 2023 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781784273477
AUD$: 126.00
Walking Safaris of Africa
Guided walks from the Cape to Kenya
By Denis Costello
The survival of Africa’s wilderness is dependent on wildlife tourism, and walking is the most sustainable way to appreciate it. First-time safari travellers are often surprised to discover that walking with elephants and other big game is possible, always in the care of professional guides. Swapping a game drive for a walk one morning, they become hooked on this immersive experience which offers a deeper dive into the natural world.
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210 X 148 mm
AUD$: 140.00
352 pages
Release Date: June 2025 COLOUR SECTION(S)
9781784275051
AUD$: 83.99
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