Category: Book Collections

The latest Checklist of CITES Species, providing the official list of CITES species and resources, is now available on CD-ROM. The 2008 edition has been extensively revised and made more user-friendly, and is trilingual in English, French, and Spanish. The Checklist is only available as a CD and is no longer available in a print edition. This is a key resource for CITES authorities, customs officials, and others involved in implementing and enforcing CITES.

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You may also be interested in the CITES Handbook (2007)

What is CITES?
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is a voluntary cooperative agreement by the world’s governments to monitor and control the international trade in wild animals and plants. This trade is significant, worth billions of dollars every year.

The CITES agreement aims to improve sustainability and avoid exploitation of resources, and to ensure continued survival in the wild. 28,000 plant species and 5,000 animal species, and the products made from those species, are protected by CITES with three levels of rankings based on the risk of exploitation or extinction.

It’s a very frosty morning here in the UK – perfect weather for unloading hundreds of copies of Handbook of the Birds of the World! Volume 13 is in stock now and copies will be leaving our warehouse to customers from this afternoon.

Information about the Handbook of the Birds of the World can be found on our HBW series page. If you haven’t started your collection of this landmark ornithological series you can catch up with the discounted set of Volumes 1-13.

The NHBS Primatology Catalogue is out! Browse online or download it as a .pdf.

Over 250 key titles in Primatology, Conservation, Ecology and Behaviour. We have also included some field work essentials from our equipment range.

The forthcoming volume of Handbook of Birds of the World (Vol 13: Penduline Tits to Shrikes) is due in stock by the end of October. All HBW customers will be receiving their copies as soon as it is published.

Lynx Editions, the publisher of HBW have also just published The Threatened Amphibians of the World.

We have just launched the latest NHBS Country Guide – to Brazil. The lead title, Birds of Amazonian Brazil is a huge leap forward in the standard of field information available on the birds of Brazil. The ‘standard’ high quality field guide has yet to be published on Brazil’s avifauna, though at least one is in preparation for around 2010. Until then a selection of books address Brazil’s birds on a regional basis, more widely but with average plates, or with excellent quality but only covering non-passerines. There are a wealth of more general travel books, wildlife books and science titles – enjoy our pick of the best!

Check-out other recent NHBS Newsletters: Download our new Bat Detecting Buyers Guide | View the Sept Newsletter

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Collins New Naturalist Grouse (Volume 107) has just been published and is in stock at NHBS. Written by Adam Watson and Robert Moss, Grouse provides timely and comprehensive coverage of British Grouse.

The next New Naturalist (Volume 108) in this classic series is Southern England. For a full list of in print and forthcoming New Naturalists Browse our Collins New Naturalist Page. To ensure first editions from the first print run you can set up a standing order with our customer services team.

The Linnean Society have launched a new digital archive of Linnean butterflies to mark National Insect Week. Linnaeus named 300 butterfly species of which over 240 still bear their Linnaean species names today. This includes the American Monarch Danaus plexippus (L.) famous for it’s annual mass migrations. The Monarch, pictured here, is also the subject of a fascinating new book – Nomads of the Wind, chronicling this migration and other wonders of the butterfly world.

The BBC Wildlife Team broke new ground last night with incredible footage of a Rickett’s Big Footed Bat (Myotis ricketti) hunting fish. Ma et al uncovered the first evidence that this bat was a piscivore in 2003 (Journal of Zoology (2003), 261: 245-248) from analysis of droppings and behavioural observation. This footage is part of the BBC Wild China series which started last night. Both the book from this series, which is out now, and the DVD (to pre-order) are available from NHBS.

The first episode, Heart of the Dragon, focuses on the southern region with it’s iconic terraced paddy fields and the Karst peaks of the Li River. They filmed the ancient technique of Cormorant fishing – which I have seen in action on the Li River – it’s a fascinating collaboration and illustrative of the close working relationship maintained between people and animals in rural Chinese areas. The BBC haven’t shied away from highlighting the staggering conservation challenges facing China and the extent to which a wide range of highly endangered species are exploited.

The BBC have summaries of all six episodes as well as lots of behind the scenes detail on the BBC Wild China pages.

If you would like to start observing bats in the wild and listening in on their calls view our range of bat detectors and books about bats.