The Photo Ark Vanishing: The World's Most Vulnerable Animals (National Geographic Photo Ark) Hardcover – Illustrated, 17 Oct. 2019

Really thick, heavy book. Great value for under £20.

Like all of the National Geographic books, this is thought provoking and makes you wonder just when will mankind start to think about the rest of the world and start to reverse the problems we are making. It is a great book and unfortunately, people in years to come may only have books to see what life was once like.

Joel Sartore is a genius with his camera. The animals he photographs look almost as though they're emerging from the page for maximum engagement with the reader; the detail is crisp and informative. He's photoshopped the background to plain black or white aiming to achieve just this and succeeded. A lovely, lovely book 😊

Wow what a stunning book its like looking at these animals face to face the photos are so life like briiant so glad I bought this

Beautiful content; and sad at the same time. Animals are disappearing at an extremely fast rate and everyone should be aware of the causes and the consequences.

Had cent opened this as it is. For. A Christmas gift but it is heavy.

Beautiful pictures, thought provoking - ideal gift. Highly recommended for anyone interested in conservation.

This is an incredible book, big too at 26 x 26 x3 cms and pretty weighty at 1.9 kilos but it will be the best animal book you will ever own, covering as it does over 300 of the world’s most vulnerable animals in full glorious colour with information about it, its habitat, where the picture was taken (in the wild or in captivity with appropriate web sites). The IUCN classification for each of the animals in this book is shown and in several cases the number known to be still living is also given, these titles are Extinct (EX), Extinct in the Wild (EW), Critically Endangered (CR), Endangered (EN), Vulnerable (VU), Near Threatened (NT), Least Concern (LC), Data Deficient (DD) and Not Evaluated (NE). On page 40 and across 41 The South China tiger, Panthera tigris amoyensis (CR, possibly EW) appears and this is what the book says ‘ In the early 1950’s there were more than 4000 South China tigers in the wild, They were seen as a pest and hunted to the brink of extinction until the Chinese government put protections for the species in place in the 1970s. It’s estimated that fewer than 100 of these tigers exist today.’ The title ‘The Photo Ark Vanishing’ takes its name from Joel Sartore’s National Geographic Book “The Photo Ark” a project Joel Sartore began 15 years ago, to photograph each of the world’s animal species under human care - a number he estimates to be more than 12,000. The Photo Ark already contains images of more than 10,000 species, some common and some so rare that Sartore has depicted the last of its kind. For more information visit : natgeophotoark.org