The North West Cape, Western Australia: A Potential Hotspot for Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins Sousa chinensis?

Abstract

SAVING A Million Species is an emotive title for a book, and immediately raises a number of questions, including “Are a million species really at risk from climate change?”, “Which species are they?” and “How can we save them?”. This book attempts to tackle these critical questions, and more. Organized into six key parts, and with 20 chapters authored by many of the pre-eminent researchers in climate change and biodiversity science, Saving A Million Species is an ambitious book that addresses the most significant conservation crisis of our time. As a reference and a starting point for further chapters, Part I begins by introducing and dissecting the well-known paper by Thomas et al., “Extinction Risk from Climate Change”, published in Nature in 2004. Chris Thomas returns to arguably the most important paper of his career, and scrutinizes the methodologies and limitations of that first analysis. Chapter 3 goes on to discuss the implications and fallout from the paper, including subsequent changes in policy around the world and the incorporation of extinction risk from climate change into threatened species listings.