Mary Ellen Hannibal
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
As climate change encroaches, animals and plants around the globe are having their habitats pulled out from under them. At the same time, human development has made islands out of even our largest nature reserves, stranding the biodiversity othat lives within them. The Spine of the Continent introduces readers to the most ambitious wildlife cinservation effort ever undertaken: to create linked protected areas extending from the Yukon to Mexico, the...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Here is a wide-ranging adventure in becoming a citizen scientist by an award-winning writer and environmental thought leader. As Mary Ellen Hannibal wades into tide pools, follows hawks, and scours mountains to collect data on threatened species, she discovers the power of a heroic cast of volunteers—and the makings of what may be our last, best hope in slowing an unprecedented mass extinction. Digging deeply, Hannibal traces today’s tech-enabled...