About Island Press -- About The Wildlife Conservation Society -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- By The Numbers: Emerging Diseases and Conservation -- Foreword by Ward Woods: The Value of Conservation -- Introduction by Kent H. Redford: Future States of the Wild -- Part I: State of the Wild -- Tipping Point: Perspective of a Climatologist, by James Hansen -- Global Conservation News Highlights -- Africa -- Asia -- Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands -- Central and South America -- Europe -- North America -- Oceans -- Discoveries, by Margaret Kinnaird -- The Rarest of the Rare: Some of the World's Most Endangered Animals, by Catherine Grippo, Taylor H. Ricketts, and Jonathan Hoekstra -- Continuing to Consume Wildlife -- An Update, by Elizabeth L. Bennett -- Part II: Focus on the Wild -- Emerging Diseases and Conservation: One World--One Health, by Robert A. Cook and William B. Karesh -- Little Is Big, Many Is One: Zoonoses in the Twenty-first Century, by David Quammen -- Land-Use Change as a Driver of Disease, by Jonathan A. Patz, Sarah H. Olson, and Jill C. Baumgartner -- Transboundary Management of Natural Resources and the Importance of a "One Health" Approach: Perspectives on Southern Africa, by Steven A. Osofsky, David H.M.Cumming, and Michael D. Kock -- An Ounce of Prevention: Lessons from the First Avian Influenza Scare, by William B. Karesh and Kristine Smith -- Why Wildlife Health Matters in North America, by John R. Fischer -- Warming Oceans, Increasing Disease: Mapping the Health Effects of Climate Change, by Rita R. Colwell -- Conservation Controversy: To Cull or Not to Cull?, by Barry Estabrook -- Part III: Emerging Issues in the Wild -- Conservation of Wildlife -- The Last of the Great Overland Migrations, by Joel Berger.

Downward Spiral: Catastrophic Decline of South Asia's Vultures, by Todd E. Katzner -- Conserving Cold-Blooded Australians, by Richard Shine -- Settling for Less: Disappearing Diadromous Frishes, by John Waldman -- Conservation of Wild Places -- Mapping the State of the Oceans, by Eric W. Sanderson -- Africa's Last Wild Places: Why Conservation Can't Wait, by J.Michael Fay -- The Deep Sea: Unknown and Under Threat, by Les Watling -- Climate Change in the Andes, by Caroline Murcia -- Grazers and Grasslands: Restoring Biodiversity to the Prairies, by James H. Shaw -- People, Culture, and Conservation -- Conservation and Human Displacement, by Arun Agrawal, Kent H. Redford, and Eva Fearn -- Conservation Psychology: Who Cares about the Biodiversity Crisis?, by John Fraser and Jessica Sickler -- Biogenetics and Conservation: Celebrate or Worry?, by Stephen C. Aldrich -- The Art and Practice of Conservation -- Conservation in Conflict -- Illegal Drugs Versus Habitat in the Americas, by Liliana M. Davalos and Adriana C. Bejarano -- Rewilding the Islands, by C. Josh Donlan -- Addressing AIDS: Conservation in Africa, by Judy Oglethorpe and Daulos Mauambeta -- Conservation as Diplomacy, by Steven E. Sanderson -- Final Thoughts: Profession: Awajun, by Walter H. Wust -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.