Books in the Animals Back from the Brink series

Long considered by humans as a threat to livestock, the gray wolf has been hunted almost to extinction in parts of North America. But these keystone predators help keep an ecosystem in balance. This book details reintroduction programs that have helped populations recover to about 10 percent of their historic...

Humpback whales are a true ecological success story. Readers will be enthralled by the story of these masters of the deep, listed as endangered in 1970. Protected by an international ban on hunting all whales in 1982, the humpack recovered so well it was no longer listed as endangered in most of the world by 2016.