{"product_id":"9781486308637","title":"A Bat's End","description":"Author: John Z. Woinarski\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781486308637\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: CSIRO Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Sep 2018\u003cbr\u003ePages: 280\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Whitley Award for Conservation Biology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the evening of 26 August 2009 on Christmas Island. The last known pipistrelle emerges from its day-time shelter. Scientists, desperate about its conservation, set up a maze of netting to try to catch it. It is a forlorn and futile exercise  even if captured, there is little future in just one bat. But the bat evades the trap easily, and continues foraging. It is not recorded again that night, and not at all the next night. The bat is never again recorded. The scientists search all nearby areas over the following nights. It has gone. There are no more bats. Its corpse is not, will never be, found. It is the silent, unobtrusive death of the last individual. It is extinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is about that bat, about those scientists, about that island. But mostly it is an attempt to understand that extinction; an unusual extinction, because it was predicted, witnessed and its timing is precise. \u003ci\u003eA Bat's End\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling forensic examination of the circumstances and players surrounding the extinction of the Christmas Island pipistrelle. A must-read for environmental scientists, policy-makers, and organisations and individuals with an interest in conservation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46819975430302,"sku":"ADS-9781486308637","price":59.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781486308637.jpg?v=1778467469","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781486308637","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}