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Protecting wild animals and preserving the environment are two ideals so seemingly compatible as to be almost inseparable. But in fact, between animal welfare and conservation science there exists a space of underexamined and unresolved tension: wildness itself. When is it right to capture or feed wild animals for the good of their species? How do we balance the rights of introduced species with those already established within an ecosystem? Can hunting be ecological? Are any animals truly wild on a planet that humans have so thoroughly changed? No clear guidelines yet exist to help us resolve such questions.Transporting readers into the field with scientists tackling these profound challenges, Emma Marris tells the affecting and inspiring stories of animals around the globe-from Peruvian monkeys to Australian bilbies, rare Hawai'ian birds to majestic Oregon wolves.
About the Author
Emma Marris grew up in Seattle, Washington and now lives in Klamath Falls, Oregon, where she writes about the environment, evolution, energy, agriculture, food, language, books and film. Her goal in writing is to find and tell the stories that help us understand how to increase the flourishing of both humanity and the rest of the planet's species--how to move towards a greener, wilder, happier and more equal future. Her magazine stories have appeared in Conservation, Wired, Grist, Slate, OnEarth and above all, Nature, where she worked as a staffer between 2004 and 2007.
