Description
The first Reptile Atlas, a comprehensive conservation assessment of over 400 reptiles in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, was published back in 2014.
Its ten years later and a revised and updated Reptile Atlas is long overdue. The Conservation status of the reptiles of South Africa, Eswatini and Lesotho in a collaborated book that is published with inputs from the Animal Demography Unit (ADU), iNaturalist, the South African National Biodiversity Institute’s (SANBI) Threatened Species Programme and SANBI Publishing. A team of reptile experts has written this comprehensive but accessible account for each of the nearly 400 species included in the book, and includes information on the distribution, habitat, threats and conservation measures required for the conservation of each species. Each species is placed in one of the threat categories of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List system, an internationally endorsed scientific approach to assessing the risks of extinction to species.
The broad range of information as well as the informative and beautiful illustrations presented here makes this a publication which will be useful to everyone, including conservation planners and managers, researchers, professional and amateur herpetologists, legislators, environmental consultants and members of the public.
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Editors: Krystal A. Tolley, Werner Conradie, Darren W. Pietersen, Joshua Weeber, Marius Burger & Graham J. Alexander
ISBN 978-1-928224-63-1
Format Hardcover
Publisher: South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI).
Release date: 2024
Pages: 660
