Books for World Wildlife Day

By Coll Rowe | February 29 2024 | Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

For World Wildlife Day on March 3rd, we are sharing books to educate on wildlife and conservation and provide tools to connect students and the planet.

The Backyard Bird Chronicles
The Backyard Bird Chronicles
Amy Tan
9780593536131
A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight, written and illustrated by the best-selling author of The Joy Luck Club • With a foreword by David Allen Sibley
$36.00 US
Apr 23, 2024
Hardcover
320 Pages
Knopf
Sounds Wild and Broken
Sounds Wild and Broken
Sonic Marvels, Evolution's Creativity, and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction
David George Haskell
9781984881564
“[A] glorious guide to the miracle of life’s sound.” —The New York Times Book Review A lyrical exploration of the diverse sounds of our planet, the creative processes that produced these marvels, and the perils that sonic diversity now faces
$18.00 US
Mar 07, 2023
Paperback
448 Pages
Penguin Books
An Immense World
An Immense World
How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed Yong
9780593133255
A tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong
$20.00 US
Aug 29, 2023
Paperback
480 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
National Geographic The Photo Ark
National Geographic The Photo Ark
One Man's Quest to Document the World's Animals
Joel Sartore, Douglas Chadwick
9781426217777
The National Geographic Photo Ark is photographer Joel Sartore’s lifelong mission—a more than 20-year project to photograph every species living in the world’s zoos, aquariums, and wildlife sanctuaries.
$35.00 US
Mar 07, 2017
Hardcover
400 Pages
National Geographic
A Most Remarkable Creature
A Most Remarkable Creature
The Hidden Life of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
Jonathan Meiburg
9781101911549
Here is an enthralling account of the clever, social birds of prey called caracaras, which puzzled Darwin, fascinate modern-day falconers, and carry secrets of our planet's deep past in their family history.
$21.00 US
Feb 22, 2022
Paperback
400 Pages
Vintage
Entangled Life
Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
9780525510321
A “brilliant [and] entrancing” (The Guardian) journey into the hidden lives of fungi—the great connectors of the living world—and their astonishing and intimate roles in human life, with the power to heal our bodies, expand our minds, and help us address our most urgent environmental problems.
$20.00 US
Apr 13, 2021
Paperback
368 Pages
Random House Trade Paperbacks
National Geographic The Photo Ark Vanishing
National Geographic The Photo Ark Vanishing
The World's Most Vulnerable Animals
Joel Sartore
9781426220593
Celebrated National Geographic photojournalist Joel Sartore continues his Photo Ark quest, photographing species around the world that are escaping extinction thanks to human efforts.
$40.00 US
Sep 10, 2019
Hardcover
400 Pages
National Geographic
What an Owl Knows
What an Owl Knows
The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
Jennifer Ackerman
9780593298886
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination
$30.00 US
Jun 13, 2023
Hardcover
352 Pages
Penguin Press
Tenacious Beasts
Tenacious Beasts
Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
Christopher J. Preston
9780262548335
An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet.
$24.95 US
Mar 05, 2024
Paperback
328 Pages
The MIT Press
Spying on Whales
Spying on Whales
The Past, Present, and Future of Earth's Most Awesome Creatures
Nick Pyenson
9780735224582
A dive into the secret lives of whales, from their evolutionary past to today's cutting edge of science
$17.00 US
Jun 25, 2019
Paperback
336 Pages
Penguin Books
Finding the Mother Tree
Finding the Mother Tree
Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
Suzanne Simard
9780525565994
From the world’s leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery.
$18.00 US
Jun 21, 2022
Paperback
384 Pages
Vintage
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