- Ecology (361)
- Endangered Species (64)

Best Sellers
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Last Chance to See
- By: Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
- Narrated by: Matthew Baynton, Stephen Fry
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Join Douglas Adams, best-selling and beloved author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and zoologist Mark Carwardine on an adventure in search of the world’s most endangered and exotic creatures....
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can someone wake the narrator up please?
- By OmniCognateSnr on 13-07-20
By: Douglas Adams, and others
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Curlew Moon
- By: Mary Colwell
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In Curlew Moon, Mary Colwell takes us on a 500 mile journey from the west coast of Ireland to the east coast of England, to discover what is happening to this much-loved bird....
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Eye opening read that should be compulsory to adults and children
- By Linda Nicholson on 23-10-19
By: Mary Colwell
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The Golden Mole
- And Other Living Treasure
- By: Katherine Rundell, Talya Baldwin
- Narrated by: Lenny Henry
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings....
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Original, engaging, informative, humorous, passionate.
- By Genevieve on 22-10-22
By: Katherine Rundell, and others
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In Search of One Last Song
- Britain’s Disappearing Birds and the People Trying to Save Them
- By: Patrick Galbraith
- Narrated by: Patrick Galbraith
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Our wild places and wildlife are disappearing at a terrifying rate. This is a story about going in search of the people who are trying to save our birds, as well as confronting the enormity of what losing them would really mean....
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The Last Unicorn
- A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
- By: William deBuys
- Narrated by: William deBuys
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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An award-winning author's stirring quest to find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast Asia's jungles....
By: William deBuys
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Buzz
- The Nature and Necessity of Bees
- By: Thor Hanson
- Narrated by: Brant Pope
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round....
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Fantastic
- By David Crowley on 19-02-23
By: Thor Hanson
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Last Chance to See
- By: Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine
- Narrated by: Matthew Baynton, Stephen Fry
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Join Douglas Adams, best-selling and beloved author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and zoologist Mark Carwardine on an adventure in search of the world’s most endangered and exotic creatures....
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can someone wake the narrator up please?
- By OmniCognateSnr on 13-07-20
By: Douglas Adams, and others
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Curlew Moon
- By: Mary Colwell
- Narrated by: Jane McDowell
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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In Curlew Moon, Mary Colwell takes us on a 500 mile journey from the west coast of Ireland to the east coast of England, to discover what is happening to this much-loved bird....
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Eye opening read that should be compulsory to adults and children
- By Linda Nicholson on 23-10-19
By: Mary Colwell
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The Golden Mole
- And Other Living Treasure
- By: Katherine Rundell, Talya Baldwin
- Narrated by: Lenny Henry
- Length: 3 hrs and 8 mins
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The world is more astonishing, more miraculous and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings....
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Original, engaging, informative, humorous, passionate.
- By Genevieve on 22-10-22
By: Katherine Rundell, and others
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In Search of One Last Song
- Britain’s Disappearing Birds and the People Trying to Save Them
- By: Patrick Galbraith
- Narrated by: Patrick Galbraith
- Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
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Our wild places and wildlife are disappearing at a terrifying rate. This is a story about going in search of the people who are trying to save our birds, as well as confronting the enormity of what losing them would really mean....
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The Last Unicorn
- A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
- By: William deBuys
- Narrated by: William deBuys
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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An award-winning author's stirring quest to find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast Asia's jungles....
By: William deBuys
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Buzz
- The Nature and Necessity of Bees
- By: Thor Hanson
- Narrated by: Brant Pope
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
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From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round....
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Fantastic
- By David Crowley on 19-02-23
By: Thor Hanson
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American Serengeti
- The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
- By: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
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America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa....
By: Dan Flores
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Life as We Made It
- How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined - and Redefined - Nature
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Beth Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Once, we humans could only observe evolution. Suddenly, we had conquered it. And yet, in Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that - despite how amazing our new technologies are - our ability to alter the course of evolution isn’t new....
By: Beth Shapiro
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Emperors of the Deep
- The Mysterious and Misunderstood World of the Shark
- By: William McKeever
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Sharks are ruthlessly efficient predators, the apex of 450 million years of evolution....
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Abolish sharkfin soup and read this book
- By @ZennyReadsAlot on 09-09-22
By: William McKeever
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The Wonder of Birds
- What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
- By: Jim Robbins
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
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Our relationship to birds is different from our relationship to other wild creatures. We love to watch them, listen to them, keep them as pets, wear their feathers, even converse with them....
By: Jim Robbins
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No Beast So Fierce
- The Champawat Tiger and Her Hunter, the First Tiger Conservationist
- By: Dane Huckelbridge
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
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The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order....
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A Jim Corbett adventure
- By Ben Waddams on 08-02-19
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Swifts and Us
- The Life of the Bird that Sleeps in the Sky
- By: Sarah Gibson
- Narrated by: Janine Cooper-Marshall
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
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Swifts live almost entirely in the air. They eat, drink, sleep, mate and gather their nesting materials on the wing, fly thousands of miles across the world, navigating their way around storms, never lighting on tree, cliff or ground, until they return home with the summer....
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Well written stories of people's love for swifts!
- By Anonymous User on 07-03-23
By: Sarah Gibson
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The Song of the Dodo
- Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 24 hrs and 36 mins
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In The Song of the Dodo, we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries....
By: David Quammen
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Gone
- A Search for What Remains of the World's Extinct Creatures
- By: Michael Blencowe
- Narrated by: Thomas Judd
- Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
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Dynamic naturalist Michael Blencowe has travelled the globe to uncover the fascinating backstories of 11 extinct animals, which he shares with charm and insight in Gone....
By: Michael Blencowe
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The End of Nature
- By: Bill McKibben
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Reissued on the 10th anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the Earth....
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Brillant
- By ruari Mitchell on 03-05-19
By: Bill McKibben
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The Sixth Extinction, by Elizabeth Kolbert: Key Takeaways, Analysis, & Review
- By: Instaread
- Narrated by: Michael Gilboe
- Length: 25 mins
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In this book, the author demonstrates that species are dying out at a rate comparable to the previous mass extinctions....
By: Instaread
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Saving the Last Rhinos
- The Life of a Frontline Conservationist
- By: Grant Fowlds, Graham Spence
- Narrated by: Byron Mondahl
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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Each year, more than 1,000 rhinoceroses are killed - in South Africa alone. There are fewer than 18,000 white rhinos and only 5,000 black rhinos left alive in the wild. The situation with regard to this corrupt, illegal war on wildlife is clearly critical....
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Great Narrator and an inspirational listen
- By charlotte on 18-02-21
By: Grant Fowlds, and others
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After They're Gone
- Extinctions Past, Present and Future
- By: Peter Marren
- Narrated by: Stephen Boxer
- Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
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We are in the midst of an extinction event: the sixth mass extinction on Earth and one entirely caused by mankind. All species become extinct sooner or later, but we have accelerated that natural process several hundredfold, and now, it is happening right in front of our eyes....
By: Peter Marren
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A Life in Nature
- By: Sir Peter Scott
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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A Life In Nature is a portrait of Peter Scott collected from his own conversations, articles and broadcasts, including thoughts on expeditions to Lapland, conservation and Africa, his travels in Europe and much more....
By: Sir Peter Scott
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Inheritors of the Earth
- How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
- By: Chris D Thomas
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. We have altered our climate, acidified our oceans, and we are in the process of causing the sixth mass extinction....
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original thiking
- By Amazon Customer on 07-10-18
By: Chris D Thomas
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Hope for Animals and Their World
- How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
- By: Jane Goodall, Thane Maynard, Gail Hudson
- Narrated by: Jane Goodall
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
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Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of these beloved species....
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One of my favourite books
- By M. Orchard on 28-10-20
By: Jane Goodall, and others
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The Travelling Vet
- From Pets to Pandas: My Life with Animals
- By: Jonathan Cranston
- Narrated by: Jonathan Cranston
- Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
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Jonathan Cranston is no ordinary vet. In addition to his day job in the Gloucestershire countryside treating cows, dogs, pigs and cats, he's also worked with an astonishing range of species around the world, including crocodiles, rhinos and pandas....
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Great listen
- By Kate Castle on 03-03-21
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The Dragon Behind the Glass
- A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
- By: Emily Voigt
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
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Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator dating to the age of the dinosaurs....
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A brilliant look at wildlife trade & conservation
- By Molly bby on 09-09-20
By: Emily Voigt
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Wild Souls
- Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
- By: Emma Marris
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
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From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with - and responsibilities toward - the planet's wild animals....
By: Emma Marris
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The Snow Leopard Project
- And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation
- By: Alex Dehgan
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 30 mins
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The remarkable story of the heroic effort to save and preserve Afghanistan's wildlife - and a culture that derives immense pride and a sense of national identity from its natural landscape....
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Punchy account of an unlikely conservation startup
- By Rob on 25-02-19
By: Alex Dehgan
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How to Clone a Mammoth
- The Science of De-Extinction
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
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Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes....
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Informative and inspiring
- By Sarah C on 28-09-22
By: Beth Shapiro
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Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West
- By: Michael Punke
- Narrated by: Robert Slade
- Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
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In the last three decades of the 19th century, an American buffalo herd once numbering 30 million animals was reduced to twelve....
By: Michael Punke
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Once and Future Giants
- What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
- By: Sharon Levy
- Narrated by: Tamara Marston
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles....
By: Sharon Levy
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The Re-Origin of Species
- By: Torill Kornfeldt, Fiona Graham
- Narrated by: Alix Dunmore
- Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
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What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like today’s birds? Do aurochs low like cows? You may soon find out....
By: Torill Kornfeldt, and others
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A Cheetah's Tale
- By: HRH Princess Michael of Kent
- Narrated by: HRH Princess Michael of Kent
- Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
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This charming autobiographical tale from HRH Princess Michael of Kent tells of a girl growing up and the incredible bond that can exist between people and animals....
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Very poor.
- By Amazon Customer on 02-02-18