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Literature
Online Resources
WWF Global: Mammals, birds, reptiles & fish
On this website, you can read about how different species are defined, which ones are endangered and why, and what is being done to preserve them.
Fiction
Artemis Fowl is a humoristic science fiction series about the young criminal Artemis Fowl. In , his mother is ill and only the brain fluid from a sifaka lemur can save her. Unfortunately, the bird is extinct because of Artemis himself. He has to go back in time to save the bird in order to save his mother, and he has to fight the ten-year-old version of himself. Ages 12 and up.
Schrefer, Eliot: New York: Scholastic Press, 2012.
This novel takes place in Congo and tells the story of a young girl whose mother is running a sanctuary for bonobos (a kind of chimpanzee). When revolution breaks out, they have to hide in the jungle with one of the bonobos. Ages 14 and up.
Films
The film shows how extinction of the species happens, but also why. Itinvestigates cultural and psychological reasons for why we are letting the extinction happen, as well as the physical ones. Ages 12 and up.
. Australian adventure thriller from 2011, directed by Daniel Nettheim.
Martin (played by Willem Dafoe), a mercenary posing as a scientist, is sent into the Tasmanian wilderness to hunt a tiger that is believed to be extinct, for its genetic material. He sets up camp with a local family and becomes too involved with them, while the company who hired him becomes more and more impatient for results. Ages 13 and up.