Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: Mount Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine: The Complete History by Trudy Irene Scee; The Reverend Jacob Bailey, Maine Loyalist: For God, King, Country and for Self by James S. Leamon; The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our Stories by Don Perkins; Gateway to Vacationland: The Making of Portland, Maine by John F. Bauman; Maine: The Wilder Half of New England by William David Berry; The Cross of War: Christian Nationalism and U.S. Expansion in the Spanish-American War by Matthew McCullough; Omaha Beach: The Life and Military Service of a Penobscot Indian Elder by Charles Norman Shay

4. Farmland Conservation

Expert assessors Lynn V. Dicks, University of Cambridge, UK Ian Hodge, University of Cambridge, UK Clunie Keenleyside, Institute for European Environmental Policy, UK Will Peach, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK Nicola Randall, Harper Adams University, UK Jörn Scharlemann, United Nations Environment Programme — World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK Gavin Siriwardena, British Trust for Ornithology, UK Henrik Smith, Lund University, Sweden Rebecca K. Smith, University of Cambrid..

What Works in Conservation 2018

This book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of 1277 conservation interventions based on summarized scientific evidence. The 2018 edition contains new chapters covering practical global conservation of primates, peatlands, shrublands and heathlands, management of captive animals as well as an extended chapter on control of freshwater invasive species. Other chapters cover global conservation of amphibians, bats, birds and forests, conservation of European farmland biodiversity and some aspects of enhancing natural pest control, enhancing soil fertility and control of freshwater invasive species. It contains key results from the summarized evidence for each conservation intervention and an assessment of the effectiveness of each by international expert panels. The accompanying website www.conservationevidence.com describes each of the studies individually, and provides full references

Farmland Conservation : Evidence for the effects of interventions in northern and western Europe

This synopsis covers evidence for the effects of conservation interventions for native farmland wildlife. It is restricted to evidence captured on the website www.conservationevidence.com. It includes papers published in the journal Conservation Evidence, evidence summarized on our database and systematic reviews collated by the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence. It is the thrid volume in the series Synopses of Conservation Evidence. Evidence was collected from all European countries west of Russia, but not those south of France, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary and Romania. A list of interventions to conserve wildlife on farmland was developed collaboratively by a team of thirteen experts. A number of interventions that are not currently agri-environment options were added during this process, such as 'Provide nest boxes for bees (solitary or bumblebees)' and 'Implement food labelling schemes relating to biodiversity-friendly farming'. Interventions relating to the creation or management of habitats not considered commercial farmland (such as lowland heath, salt marsh and farm woodland) were removed. The list of interventions was organized into categories based on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifications of direct threats and conservation actions. Interventions that fall under the threat category 'Agriculture' are grouped by farming system, with separate sections for interventions that apply to arable or livestock farms, or across all farming types

4. Farmland conservation

Expert assessors Lynn V. Dicks, University of Cambridge, UK Ian Hodge, University of Cambridge, UK Clunie Keenleyside, Institute for European Environmental Policy, UK Will Peach, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, UK Nicola Randall, Harper Adams University, UK Jörn Scharlemann, United Nations Environment Programme — World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK Gavin Siriwardena, British Trust for Ornithology, UK ..