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Patagonia. The name connotes the exotic and a distance that seems almost mythical. Tucked toward the feet of South America, this mainly unsettled landscape has become the varied and breathtaking on the planet - aching in its beauty as it sweeps from the Andes through wide, arid steppes to pristine beaches and down to a famously violent sea. It is also home to a massive array of exceptional wildlife as diverse and attractive as the spot itself. Function III in Patagonia is the first booklet to use an in-depth look at wildlife and individuals relationship in this breathtaking area of the world. Compiled by William Conway, past chief executive of the Wildlife Conservation Contemporary society, the book is unique in its focus on the long Patagonian shoreline - filled by bright colored cormorants, penguins, elephant seals, dolphins, sea lions, and numerous species of whale - and an increasing number of humans. Threatened by overfishing, invasive species, artificially abundant predators, and overgrazing, the Southern Cone of Patagonia is currently the scene of your little-known conservation drama distinguished by the work of your dedicated band of local and foreign scientists determined to save one of the Earth's least-inhabited places. From traffic monitoring elephant seals in the Atlantic to following flamingos in the Andes, Function III in Patagonia can take readers to the websites where real-life field technology is occurring. It further illuminates the ecology of the spot through a brief history that gets to from the time of the Tehuelche Indians known by Magellan, Drake, and Darwin to the present. Conway has helped to determine more than a dozen wildlife reserves in South America and it is thus able not and then tell Patagonia's history, but to handle its future. He brings a wealth of understanding of Patagonia and its wildlife and responds to the difficult questions of the way the pursuits of humans and wildlife are best well balanced.
