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From the almost extinct black robins of New Zealand, whose numbers had plummeted to a staggering five (5!) left in the world, to the common murres of California, whose Devil's Slide Rock colony had been wiped out by a 1986 oil spill, the cases presented in Saving Birds: Heroes from Around the World highlight the potential for population recovery, even in cases of extreme threat. Some, such as the quetzals of Mexico, whose forest home has been threatened by local coffee-farming practices, or the black-necked cranes of China, whose winter wetland feeding grounds have (until recently) been taken over by impoverished farmers, show how human agricultural activity effects the surrounding wildlife. Others, such as the lesser kestrels of Israel, whose habitat continues to shrink, and whose fate is intimately tied to the warring peoples of that part of the world, or the rhinoceros hornbill of Malaysia, whose feathers are used in Sarawak cultural and religious ceremonies, demonstrate that even activities we might see as divorced from ecological concerns - human groups fighting one another, or practicing their traditional religions - are anything but.
In our recent discussion of ecologically-themed picture-books, in the Children's Books Group to which I belong, much was made of the fact that, in addition to educating young readers about the environmental threats facing our world, it is important to also provide hopeful and inspirational stories - to teach that something can be done, if we put our heads together. With more dire news abroad every day (the Gulf Coast oil spill, anyone?), this seems more important than ever, and Saving Birds: Heroes Around the World really fits the bill! ( )