2008 Checklist of CITES Species now available on CD-ROM

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.

Get your copy now!

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.

Handbook of the Birds of the World. Volume 13: Penduline Tits to Shrikes – In Stock Now

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.
Unloading Handbook of Birds of the World

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.
Handbook of Birds of the World: Vols 1-13

Batbox Baton: Now in Stock

Batbox Baton Bat DetectorThe BatBox Baton is a new frequency division bat detector for just £75. The first frequency division detector at such a low price – the BatBox Baton will enable you to:
Create real time sonograms
Listen to all frequencies simultaneously
Benefit from the FREE BatScan analysis software (included)
Listen in to grasshoppers and crickets

Download the new NHBS Bat Buyers Guide

Handbook of Birds of the World. Volume 13: Penduline Tits to Shrikes

Handbook of Birds of the World: Volume 13 Penduline Tits to ShrikesThe 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.

NHBS Country Guide: Brazil

Birds of Amazonian BrazilWe 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

New BatBox Baton Bat Detector

BatBox Baton Bat Detector
BatBox are about to launch a new frequency division bat detector for just £75. The first frequency division detector at such a low price – the BatBox Baton will enable you to:
Create real time sonograms
Listen to all frequencies simultaneously
Benefit from the FREE BatScan analysis software (included)
Listen in to grasshoppers and crickets

Due out by the end of October – Place your Pre-Order now

Download the new NHBS Bat Buyers Guide

Collins New Naturalist 107 – Grouse

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.
New Naturalist 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.
New Naturalist Grouse

Special Offer on the New Black’s Nature Guides

Blacks Nature Guides

Get 3 field guides for the price of 2 in our Special Offer on Black’s Nature Guides. This new series from A & C Black mixes photography and illustrations with in-depth information. Choose from:

Get 3 for the price of 2! We will remove the price of your third book when processing your order.

Digital Images of Linnean Butterflies Now Online

Linnean ButterfliesThe 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.