Earth's Last Great Places: Exploring the Nature Conservancy Worldwide

The Nature Conservancy has been working to protect habitat for more than fifty years now. The National Geographic Society has been working for "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge" for well over one hundred. In this 2003 book these two venerable organizations team up to showcase TNC's work as it goes global in the new century. The book is divided into five sections, each focusing on one project representative of the work being done in a geographic region. We visit the Pacific (Indonesia), Central / South America (Guatemala), the eastern US (the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania), the western US (Colorado's San Luis Valley grasslands), and Asia (Yunnan Province, China). Each section concludes with a photo portfolio of other sites in the region. This volume is part of the National Geographic's Special Publications Series, one of the best-kept secrets in the world of books. Since 1966 the Society had released four titles per year. The same size and shape as their iconic magazine, these hardcovers present the best that National Geographic has to offer, and without the ads! Authors have included such scientific luminaries as Isaac Asimov, Bob Ballard, Jane Goodall and Louis Leakey.