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William Allen

Green Phoenix

Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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Can we prevent the destruction of the world's tropical forests? In the fire-scarred hills of Costa Rica, award-winning science writer William Allen found a remarkable answer: we can not only prevent their destruction--we can bring them back to their former glory.In Green Phoenix, Allen tells the gripping story of a large group of Costa Rican and American scientists and volunteers who set out to save the tropical forests in the northwestern section of the country. It was an area badly damaged by the fires of ranchers and small farmers; in many places a few strands of forest strung across a charred landscape. Despite the widely held belief that… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-534757-9
  • EAN: 9780195347579
  • Produktnummer: 13863430
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 4'399 KB
  • Abbildungen: 36 b/w halftones, line illus. & maps

Über den Autor


William Allen is an award-winning science writer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His reporting on tropical forests has appeared in such publications as The Sciences, BioScience, and Harvard. He lives in Chesterfield, Missouri.

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