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        Book Sale (posted 20 March 1998)

        WCMC is offering the Biodiversity Data Sourcebook (1994) and Global Biodiversity: status of the Earth's living resources (1992) at a special combined price of UK £22.00 (sterling). This price is for surface mail. The price for air mail is UK £32.00 (sterling). This offer includes a free copy of our bulletin Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics (1996).

        We are also offering Biodiversity Data Sourcebook and a free copy of the bulletin for UK £12.00 (sterling). This is for air mail.

        Contact our Information Officer at the following email address info@wcmc.org.uk, putting Book Sales as the subject.

        Biodiversity Data Sourcebook and Priorities for Biodiversity Conservation in the Tropics are also available on-line.

        Global Biodiversity: status of the Earth's living resources
        1994
        Published by Chapman & Hall

        This is the most comprehensive compendium of conservation ever published. It provides the first systematic report on the status, distribution, management, and utilisation of the planet's biological wealth. With extensive use of tables, graphics and maps, it presents standardised and comparable data for 205 countries of the world.

        The report is divided into three sections:

        Part 1 documents diversity at the genetic, species and ecosystem levels, including micro-organisms, species extinctions and rates of habitat loss.

        Part 2 covers the benefits and values of biodiversity, focusing on wildlife utilisation, domestication and the economic valuation of diversity.

        Part 3 reviews the conservation and management of biodiversity at the national and international levels, including in situ and ex situ management, international conventions, and institutional and financial support.

        Contact our Information Officer at the following email address info@wcmc.org.uk, putting Book Sales as the subject.

        For further information please write to:
        Information Officer, 219 Huntingdon Road, Cambridge, CB3 0DL United Kingdom, Tel: +44 1223 277314, Fax: (44) 1223 277136 OR
        General e-mail: info@wcmc.org.uk
        Document URL: http:// www.wcmc.org.uk /latenews/book1.htm
        Revision date: 20-March-1998
        Current date: 21-January-2000
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