"How to Save a Species" brings readers as close as they may ever get to some of the most endangered animals and plants on earth. Highlighting the efforts of scientists, communities, and campaign groups, it includes the astonishing success stories of species that have been saved from the edge of extinction, as well as urgent cases in need of immediate action.

Includes index. Originally published in UK under the title: Very wonderful, very rare : saving the most endangered wildlife on Earth, in 2013. "... produced in association with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature"--P. [4] of cover.

Very wonderful, very rare -- How to save a species -- Humpback whale -- Black robin -- Przewalski's (wild) horse -- Greater bamboo lemur -- Javan rhino -- Cebu frill-wing -- Red River giant softshell turtle -- Spoon-billed sandpiper -- Attenborough's pitcher plant -- Tarzan's chameleon -- Pygmy three-toed sloth -- Saola -- Luristan newt -- Wild yam -- Red-finned blue-eye -- Northern muriqui -- Mauritius kestrel -- Where on earth? -- The world's 100 most threatened species -- Glossary.