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Series
Language
English
Description
Ruby is a young elephant who loves playing in mud, floppy-running, and spending time with her best friends, Ivan the silverback gorilla and Bob the mutt. She loves her herd at the sanctuary, too, but she also misses the elephants of her past--the family she was born into on the African savanna and Aunt Stella at the mall circus. Ruby remembers her life before the sanctuary, before the circus, before she knew what loss meant. When she shares her story...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Kids
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After losing her mother, shy Natumi is rescued by a team from the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, an orphanage for baby elephants. At the shelter, Natumi hides behind keepers' legs to watch the other elephants at the shelter. But soon, she meets several other orphans, and the eight of them play together in the surrounding bush. As the babies become closer and more like a real family, they need a leader, someone they can trust. Can Natumi grow into...
5) Chomp
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Danny, un joven que vive en Borneo, se propone salvar la reserva de orangutanes de ser destruida por una empresa maderera que espera apoderarse de ella por motivos comerciales.
Danny, a young boy living in Borneo, sets out to save the orangutan reserve from being destroyed by a lumber company who hopes to take it over for commercial reasons.
Author
Language
English
Description
It had been nearly a century since elephants had lived in Southern Zululand, South Africa, where Lawrence Anthony founded his Thula Thula wildlife reserve. Yet one day a phone call changed all that. A troubled, unpredictable herd needed a new home. In order to save their lives, Lawrence took them in, and in the years that followed found that they had a lot to teach him about life, loyalty, and freedom. He tells of hair-raising fights with poachers,...
10) Little Larry goes to school: the true story of a timid chimpanzee who learned to reach new heights
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Nonfiction picture book about a young, orphaned chimpanzee who must start at a new school, where he will learn how to climb and build his confidence. Will the sanctuary keepers and other chimpanzees be able to teach Little Larry how to climb so he can graduate from forest school?
11) Steve Irwin
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steve spent his childhood helping out on his family's wildlife refuge in Australia. He saved his first crocodile at just nine and as an adult became a leading crocodile expert. With his television shows, Steve captured the hearts of people all over the world and inspired viewers to cherish and respect the planet. This incredible story of the conservationist's life features a facts and photo section at the back.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"While studying wolverines on a wildlife sanctuary in Montana, biologist Alex Carter is run off the road and threatened by locals determined to force her off the land. Undeterred in her mission to help save this threatened species, Alex tracks wolverines on foot and by cameras positioned in remote regions of the preserve. But when she reviews the photos, she discovers disturbing images of an animal of a different kind: a severely injured man seemingly...
Publisher
Hannover House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Join Beni, the baby orphan bonobo, on his incredible true story of rescue, rehabilitation and release into the jungle of the Congo. When Beni is captured and sold into the exotic pet trade, it is up to Claudine Andre and her team at Lola Ya Bonobo sanctuary to locate and rescue him. At Lola, he is nursed back to health by his new, human, mother and, over the years, learns important social and survival skills. Follow Beni as he discovers the thrills...
14) Chomp
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to findhim while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Malby-Anthony offers a book of great inspiration and wide appeal to nature-loving readers." -Publishers Weekly A heart-warming sequel to the international bestseller The Elephant Whisperer, by Lawrence Anthony's wife Françoise Malby-Anthony. A chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But then she fell in love with conservationist Lawrence Anthony and everything changed. After Lawrence's...
Author
Publisher
Heritage House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A colourful, engaging, and educational profile of a well-established wildlife rescue and rehabilitation centre, highlighting the heartwarming stories of animals and the people who care for them. Critter Care is a cute name for a life-saving organization. For over three decades, the wildlife rehabilitation centre in Langley, BC, has rescued and cared for more than 50,000 sick, injured, and orphaned animals--from bears to beavers, coyotes to cougars,...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
For the past three years, Mr. Malik has been secretly in love with Rose Mbikwa, a woman who leads the weekly bird walks sponsored by the East African Ornithological Society. Just as Malik is getting up the nerve to invite Rose to the Nairobi Hunt Club Ball (the premier social occasion of the Kenyan calendar), Harry Khan, a nemesis from his school days, arrives in town. Khan has also become enraptured with Rose and announces his intent to invite her...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew clue book volume 11
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nancy, Bess, and George are excited about their school trip to the Wildlife Refuge, but when they arrive the animal Nancy most wants to see, a sixty-year-old tortoise, is on the loose.
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