Malcolm Tait has written a disconcerting book about the top one hundred species most threaten with extinction called "Going Going Gone?' This work draws on knowledge and work of the major top conservation groups around the world informing the public of these species which are threatened mainly due to human activity. This depressing book shows many incredible plant, bird, animal, and fish species who have seen their numbers dramatically drop in recent years from either deforestation of habitat, neurotic meat hunting by locals, or commercial over-fishing and slaughter on the seas. There are hundreds of books of this subject matter but this is a great way to quickly flip through and check out the top global species witnessing a dramatic uptick of pressure for their survival and very ability to remain in nature
. Malcolm Tait is an excellent source for this topic having written several important books of this subject and the precarious position mans greed and over-development of the worlds habitat has put so many incredible creatures. Tait includes the beautiful gray Nurse Shark and informs how many of these sharks were absolutely slaughters in the sixties and seventies along the eastern coastline of Australia as many people were freaked out of the menacing appearance of this harmless shark. illegal fishing have continued to kill of these sharks as fewer than five hundred survive off the coastlines of Australia's sandy beaches. 
Losing the Gray Nurse shark, which once was distributed throughout the worlds sub-tropical temperate coastal waters, would be perhaps the biggest tragedy of all the species in this book and would just be another plaintive reminder of the destructive will of humanity in their wicked greed and abuse of the ecosystem to satisfy their insatiable needs.
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