From Ray Powell, DVM, Regional Director the Jane Goodall Institute, Four Corners States Regional Office

As a field botanist and veterinarian I am always excited about the opportunity to get outside and learn something new! If I am quiet and keep my senses alert I am rewarded with some unexpected treat from the world around me. Dr. Jane’s latest book Hope for Animals and Their World/How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink provides just such an opportunity.
From the dust jacket:

“At a time when animal species are becoming extinct on every continent and we are confronted with bad news about the environment nearly every day, Jane Goodall, one of the world’s most renowned scientists, brings us new hope for the future of the animal kingdom.  With the insatiable curiosity and conversational prose that have made her a bestselling author…[she] reveals fascinating survival stories about formerly endangered species whose populations are now recovering.” 
Discover such incredible cases as:

• Glorious whooping cranes learning a new migration route from Wisconsin to Florida—by following an ultra light aircraft

• Magnificent short-tailed albatrosses, whose population plummeted to fewer than one hundred, and the dedicated scientist who risked his life on remote mountainous islands to save them

• The Tahki or Przewalski’s horse, native to Mongolia’s high desert grasslands, which became extinct in the wild in 1968 with only a handful existing in European zoos for decades, being reintroduced to its native homeland in the 1990s

• A giant stick insect rediscovered on a South Pacific island in 2001—after being presumed extinct for almost a century.

“Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated field biologists and the critical need to protect and restore the habitats of these irreplaceable species.  At once a celebration of the animal kingdom and a passionate call to arms… this book presents an uplifting, motivating message for the future of animal-human coexistence.”

I hope you will take the time to read Dr. Jane’s terrific new book and then get outside and quietly observe the world around you.
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