Nature Out of Balance: How Invasive Species Are Changing the Planet
Feb 2021 · Orca Footprints Book 19 · Orca Book Publishers
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Key Selling Points
- In Nature Out of Balance, we find out how and why species become invasive and practical tips about what we can do to stop their spread.
- Globalization means that new invasive species are being found around the world every day, threatening the biodiversity of our neighborhoods, cities, countries and the planet as a whole.
- The author has studied ecological restoration and examines invasive species starting in her own backyard.
- This book offers a unique perspective on invasive species and how it might be time to rethink how we coexist with them.
- Author Merrie-Ellen Wilcox has also written What's The Buzz: Keeping Bees in Flight in the Orca Footprints series, which was a Junior Library Guild selection and was short-listed for numerous awards, including the Red Cedar Book Award, the Rocky Mountain Book Award and the Information Book Award.
- Invasive species are often described as the most overlooked environmental threat in the world (in the US they cause $120 billion a year in damage, in BC alone they cost farmers $50 million a year).
About the author
Merrie-Ellen Wilcox is a writer and editor in Victoria, British Columbia. Her first book for children, What’s the Buzz? Keeping Bees in Flight, is part of the Orca Footprints series. When several huge Garry oak trees were cut down at the end of her street to make way for a parking lot, she became a passionate defender of the trees and the ecosystem they are part of. She studied ecological restoration at the University of Victoria and continues to naturescape her garden.
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