This beautiful book is an original guide to forest wildlife. It helps the reader to understand this fascinating world and presents for each species :

• its recognition criteria (with drawings, cries using flashcodes, etc.);
• its biology ;
• its roles and functions in forest ecosystems ;
• factors favourable or unfavourable to their development ;
• its distribution, status and key issues.

In the spirit of the French Forest Flora series, this book includes introductory chapters on each major faunal group and a sheet for each species, magnificently illustrated with watercolours, as well as a comprehensive glossary and two indexes (French-Latin and Latin-French). Volume 1 covers all forest vertebrates, i.e. 237 species.

Somewhere between a practical guide and a beautiful book, Faune forestière française is aimed at all nature lovers, foresters or not, professionals or amateurs, teachers or students.