Beeby & Brennan: First Ecology - Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues 3e 
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Chapter 09
Details of the effort to map coral reefs and the beautiful Landsat 7 images from space can be found at:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Coral/
The scale of tropical deforestation and forest fires from Earth orbit can be seen at:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov
More especially for images of human impact on the Earth:
http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/
The latest Red List of threatened species is available at the IUCN site:
http://www.iucn.org
and also at:
www.redlist.org/
Attempts at measuring global biodiversity are described at:
www.all-species.org/
Useful and up-to-date data on various global environmental parameters, including the current estimates of world population trends from the UN, can be found at the World Resources Institute:
http://earthtrends.wri.org/index.cfm
For a detailed commentary on and insight into the important factors and issues associated with human population growth, visit the Population Reference Bureau:
www.prb.org2
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