1. Canada and the State of the Planet
   The Social, Economic and Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Lives
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   
2. Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
3. The Eternal Frontier
   An Ecological History of North America and its People
   Resource Type: Book
   
4. Extinction
   A Radical History
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2016
   Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has continued to the present. This relentless extinction, Ashley Dawson contends in a primer that combines vast scope with elegant precision, is the product of a global attack on the commons, the great trove of air, water, plants and creatures, as well as collectively created cultural forms such as language, that have been regarded traditionally as the inheritance of humanity as a whole.
5. Hope for Animals and Their World
   How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of endangered species.
6. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2008
   Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
7. Looming Climate Catastrophe: Extinction in Nine Years?
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   Reports from the Arctic are getting pretty grim.
8. Major study shows species loss destroys essential ecosystems
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2017
   Long term research by German ecologists proves that loss of biodiversity has "direct, unpleasant consequences for mankind."
9. A Short History of Progress
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
10. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2014
    An examination of how we have come to understand the concept of extinction and how we have come to recognize our role in it.
11. The World Without Us 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
    

Experts on Extinci¢n in the Sources Directory

1. International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources