Their fate is our fate [electronic resource] : how birds foretell threats to our health and our world / Peter Doherty.

9781615191826 (electronic book)
9781615190911

New York : The Experiment, 2013.

English

1 online resource (247 p.) : ill.

QL699 .D64 2013eb

598

In a time of unprecedented environmental change, we can look to birds for the earliest signs of the challenges we face'and how we can solve them Nobel Prize'winning immunologist and professor Peter Doherty shows us how watching birds can be much more than a hobby. Our close relatives, birds act as an early warning system for the health of our world, calling our attention to the earliest effects of climate change, emerging disease, and a host of other global challenges to our well-being. A call for 'citizen science,' Their Fate Is Our Fate proves that we don't need formal scientific training to make a difference. With nothing more than a willingness to closely observe the birds that are all around us, we can discover the ways that human activity is adversely affecting the planet'and how we can reverse course.

"An earlier version of this book was originally published by Melbourne University Publishing Limited, Australia, in 2012"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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