Richard Mackay is a specialist in environmental impact assessment and environmental policy maker for major companies. His wildlife surveys include a report for the Aride Island Nature Reserve, Seychelles. He is co-author of the World Health Organization's award-winning Inheriting the World: The Atlas of Children's Health and the Environment.

'Highly engaging...pictures, maps and graphics that bring immediately home the ever increasing crisis of extinction.' The Ecologist 'The first fully-illustrated and comprehensive guide to the world's endangered plants and animals.' The Bookseller 'A pleasure to read...fantastic use of colour and photography.' What on Earth 'A must for budding botanists and ecologists.' Rocky Road 'Quite simply, every school and institution library should get a copy.' British Ecological Society 'A compact, clear and informative book that should have a place on the bookshelf of all readers interested in nature conservation.' Entomofauna 'Superbly illustrated and thoughtfully written... The Atlas of Endangered Species offers valuable statistics enforced with extraordinary images that put in numbers the total endangered species of each country, the protected ecosystems and biodiversity. A book that everyone should read.' Astigan.com

• Introduction Part I: Extinction is Forever Part II: Fragile Regions Part III: Ecosystems Part IV: Endangered Plants and Trees Part V: Endangered Birds Part VI: Issues of Conservation Part VII: World Tables Fact File Further reading Index

Richard Mackay is a specialist in environmental impact assessment and environmental policy maker for major companies. His wildlife surveys include a report for the Aride Island Nature Reserve, Seychelles. He is co-author of the World Health Organization's award-winning Inheriting the World: The Atlas of Children's Health and the Environment.

'Highly engaging...pictures, maps and graphics that bring immediately home the ever increasing crisis of extinction.' The Ecologist 'The first fully-illustrated and comprehensive guide to the world's endangered plants and animals.' The Bookseller 'A pleasure to read...fantastic use of colour and photography.' What on Earth 'A must for budding botanists and ecologists.' Rocky Road 'Quite simply, every school and institution library should get a copy.' British Ecological Society 'A compact, clear and informative book that should have a place on the bookshelf of all readers interested in nature conservation.' Entomofauna 'Superbly illustrated and thoughtfully written... The Atlas of Endangered Species offers valuable statistics enforced with extraordinary images that put in numbers the total endangered species of each country, the protected ecosystems and biodiversity. A book that everyone should read.' Astigan.com

• Introduction Part I: Extinction is Forever Part II: Fragile Regions Part III: Ecosystems Part IV: Endangered Plants and Trees Part V: Endangered Birds Part VI: Issues of Conservation Part VII: World Tables Fact File Further reading Index

Richard Mackay is a specialist in environmental impact assessment and environmental policy maker for major companies. His wildlife surveys include a report for the Aride Island Nature Reserve, Seychelles. He is co-author of the World Health Organization's award-winning Inheriting the World: The Atlas of Children's Health and the Environment.

'Highly engaging...pictures, maps and graphics that bring immediately home the ever increasing crisis of extinction.' The Ecologist 'The first fully-illustrated and comprehensive guide to the world's endangered plants and animals.' The Bookseller 'A pleasure to read...fantastic use of colour and photography.' What on Earth 'A must for budding botanists and ecologists.' Rocky Road 'Quite simply, every school and institution library should get a copy.' British Ecological Society 'A compact, clear and informative book that should have a place on the bookshelf of all readers interested in nature conservation.' Entomofauna 'Superbly illustrated and thoughtfully written... The Atlas of Endangered Species offers valuable statistics enforced with extraordinary images that put in numbers the total endangered species of each country, the protected ecosystems and biodiversity. A book that everyone should read.' Astigan.com

• Introduction Part I: Extinction is Forever Part II: Fragile Regions Part III: Ecosystems Part IV: Endangered Plants and Trees Part V: Endangered Birds Part VI: Issues of Conservation Part VII: World Tables Fact File Further reading Index