Laura Rosa’s Reviews > Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds > Status Update

Island biodiversity is determined by a balance between the rate at which new species colonize islands and the rate at which established species go to extinct.

In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand and we will understand only what we are taught.

[…] in the meantime, it became clear that birds - conspicuous l, easily viewed and intensively studied - could be successful indicators for detecting and monitoring the effects of contaminants and other environmental perturbations […]