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27 October 2007
Since its last edition, the Times Atlas has had to make 3,000 place name revisions, the number of ‘mega cities’ with a population of ten million or more has risen to around twenty and coast lines such as those of China and Bangladesh have altered as a result of man’s manipulating river systems.Ìý Climate change has also wrought changes such as the shrinking of vast lakes like the Aral Sea and Lake Chad.
John McCarthy finds out what goes into the making of the atlas, where the statistics come from to draw the maps, and what new kinds of information they show.Ìý He is joined by Mick Ashworth, the Editor in Chief of the latest edition of TheTimes Comprehensive Atlasof the World , and Jethro Lennox, its Publishing Editor.
WILDLIFE EXTINCTION
Mike Unwin and Terry Glavin are two writers who have travelled in search of wildlife at the point of extinction.Ìý Could an increase in the numbers of tourists travelling to see these creatures help or hinder their conservation?
Presented by John McCarthy
Photo: New map – 1:5,000,000 scale reference map of Alaska and NW Canada from the Times Comprehensive Atlas (courtesy/copyright Harper Collins)
This week’s guests:
is the Editor in Chief of the latest edition on of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World.Ìý He is a geographer and cartographer and has been at Harper Collins for several years having previously been a mapmaker for the MoD.Ìý Mick was the President of the British Cartographic Society and currently one of its council members.
is the Publishing Editor of The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the world.Ìý Jethro studied cartography before working for tourist map companies – a job which involved cycling around cities in Europe.Ìý Jethro’s job on the Times Atlas is to decide the look of the Atlas and where it is aimed in the market place.
Publisher: Times Books; 12Rev Ed edition
ISBN-10: 0007236700
ISBN-13: 978-0007236701
Mike Unwin is a travel writer who focuses on wildlife.Ìý He writes for children and adults.Ìý Mike fell in love with African wildlife on a trip to Zimbabwe when he was a teacher.Ìý He is shortly to go to Rwanda for to write about gorillas, as big safari companies are beginning to move in after the war there.Ìý Despite the recent outbreaks of fighting on the Congo border, there is still reliance on tourism to bring in the foreign currency.
100 Animals To See Before They Die is a new guide, co-authored with Nick Garbutt, to raise awareness of endangered mammals and encourage people to make the effort to see these vulnerable species in as near their natural habitat as possible.Ìý This may involve booking onto a package safari or wildlife viewing tour – such as seeing giant pandas in China - but it can also be done by yourself – using public transport and camping.
100 Animals To See Before They Die (Bradt Guide)
Nick Garbutt with Mike Unwin
Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides; 1 edition
ISBN-10: 1841622362
ISBN-13: 978-1841622361Ìý
is a Canadian author and journalist.Ìý Terry’s work focuses on environmental stories and extinctions are of particular interest to him; not just larger animals, mega fauna as he calls them, but also varieties of food crop, like apples or even languages and dialects as they reflect the way cultures are becoming extinct.Ìý Terry is not looking for near extinct animals but rather the conditions and environments where extinction is taking place.
Terry has called this era the 6th great extinction, the previous ones being at the ends of various geologic periods.Ìý This one is different as it is attributable to one species – man.Ìý In his latest book entitled The Lost and Left Behind, he looks at the history of extinctions but also reveals the long human struggle to conserve the living things of the world.
The Lost and Left Behind: Stories from the Age of Extinctions
Publisher: SAQI
ISBN-10: 0863566065
ISBN-13: 978-0863566066The ´óÏó´«Ã½ cannot be held responsible for
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John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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