Biologist Cristina Eisenberg's new book, THE CARNIVORE WAY is now being shipped via Amazon and is available for purchase.............Allison Adelle Hedgecoke, author of BLOOD RUN AND STREAMING reports on Cristina's new book this way--"Eisenberg investigates the extensive cascading biological medice wheel we know as the natural world, continuing to prove carnivore co-existence is fundamental to our own survival"-------------The attached article dovetails so well with Cristina's analysis(click on the link below) taliking about the fact that In the Middle Ages, fleas carried by rats were responsible for spreading the Black Plague................... Today in East Africa, they remain important vectors of plague and many other diseases, including Bartonellosis, a potentially dangerous human pathogen............ The researchers concluded that the spike in disease risk results from explosions in the number of rodents that benefit from the removal of the larger animals(carnivores)......................First Leopold "law" is to keep all the cogs and wheels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140429142201.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fplants_animals+%28Plants+%26+Animals+News+--+ScienceDaily%29#.U2Ei2GmUY2g.email

Coyotes are a mesopredator critical to keeping rodent population in check

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 2014 | ISBN-10: 1597269824 | ISBN-13: 978-1597269827

What would it be like to live in a world with no predators roaming our landscapes? Would their elimination, which humans have sought with ever greater urgency in recent times, bring about a pastoral, peaceful human civilization? Or in fact is their existence critical to our own, and do we need to be doing more to assure their health and the health of the landscapes they need to thrive?

 

In The Carnivore Way, Cristina Eisenberg argues compellingly for the necessity of top predators in large, undisturbed landscapes, and how a continental-long corridor—a “carnivore way”—provides the room they need to roam and connected landscapes that allow them to disperse. Eisenberg follows the footsteps of six large carnivores—wolves, grizzly bears, lynx, jaguars, wolverines, and cougars—on a 7,500-mile wildlife corridor from Alaska to Mexico along the Rocky Mountains. Backed by robust science, she shows how their well-being is a critical factor in sustaining healthy landscapes and how it is possible for humans and large carnivores to coexist peacefully and even to thrive.

 

University students in natural resource science programs, resource managers, conservation organizations, and anyone curious about carnivore ecology and management in a changing world will find a thoughtful guide to large carnivore conservation that dispels long-held myths about their ecology and contributions to healthy, resilient landscapes.

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Cristina Eisenberg-author of THE CARNIVORE WAY