Bestsellers
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Life as We Made It
- How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Beth Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Once, we humans could only observe evolution. Suddenly, we had conquered it. And yet, in Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that - despite how amazing our new technologies are - our ability to alter the course of evolution isn’t new....
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Interesting, Informative, Thought-provoking
- By Katrina L. on 09-13-23
By: Beth Shapiro
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American Serengeti
- The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
- By: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa....
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Could have been great, but
- By An Amazon Buyer on 08-29-18
By: Dan Flores
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This Land
- How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West
- By: Christopher Ketcham
- Narrated by: Christopher Ketcham
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West - and a plea for the protection of these last wild places....
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You need to read this book
- By David Phinney on 08-12-19
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Untamed
- The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
- By: Will Harlan
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness....
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inspiring story very poorly narrated
- By Mary Lou Lamonda on 11-05-19
By: Will Harlan
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How to Clone a Mammoth
- The Science of De-Extinction
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes....
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Very Readable Take on a Complex Subject
- By John on 04-26-15
By: Beth Shapiro
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The Last Rhinos
- My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures
- By: Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act....
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What a tribute
- By Elizabeth on 02-26-14
By: Lawrence Anthony, and others
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Life as We Made It
- How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined—and Redefined—Nature
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Beth Shapiro
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Once, we humans could only observe evolution. Suddenly, we had conquered it. And yet, in Life as We Made It, evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro argues that - despite how amazing our new technologies are - our ability to alter the course of evolution isn’t new....
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Interesting, Informative, Thought-provoking
- By Katrina L. on 09-13-23
By: Beth Shapiro
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American Serengeti
- The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
- By: Dan Flores
- Narrated by: Michael Kramer
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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America's Great Plains once possessed one of the grandest wildlife spectacles of the world, equaled only by such places as the Serengeti, the Masai Mara, or the veld of South Africa....
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Could have been great, but
- By An Amazon Buyer on 08-29-18
By: Dan Flores
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This Land
- How Cowboys, Capitalism and Corruption are Ruining the American West
- By: Christopher Ketcham
- Narrated by: Christopher Ketcham
- Length: 15 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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A hard-hitting look at the battle now raging over the fate of the public lands in the American West - and a plea for the protection of these last wild places....
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You need to read this book
- By David Phinney on 08-12-19
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Untamed
- The Wildest Woman in America and the Fight for Cumberland Island
- By: Will Harlan
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Carol Ruckdeschel is the wildest woman in America. She eats road kill, wrestles alligators, rides horses bareback, and lives in a ramshackle cabin that she built herself in an island wilderness....
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inspiring story very poorly narrated
- By Mary Lou Lamonda on 11-05-19
By: Will Harlan
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How to Clone a Mammoth
- The Science of De-Extinction
- By: Beth Shapiro
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance
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Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes....
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Very Readable Take on a Complex Subject
- By John on 04-26-15
By: Beth Shapiro
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The Last Rhinos
- My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures
- By: Lawrence Anthony, Graham Spence
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When Lawrence Anthony learned that the northern white rhino, living in the war-ravaged Congo, was on the very brink of extinction, he knew he had to act....
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What a tribute
- By Elizabeth on 02-26-14
By: Lawrence Anthony, and others
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The Song of the Dodo
- Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 24 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message - a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world....
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Extensive and Entertaining
- By Thylacine on 07-26-21
By: David Quammen
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Buzz
- The Nature and Necessity of Bees
- By: Thor Hanson
- Narrated by: Brant Pope
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round....
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Not just honeybees!
- By Joshua R. Jacobs on 11-28-18
By: Thor Hanson
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Koala
- A Natural History and an Uncertain Future
- By: Danielle Clode
- Narrated by: Jessica Douglas-Henry
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Koalas regularly appeared in Australian biologist Danielle Clode's backyard, but it was only when a bushfire threatened that she truly paid them attention....
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Invitation to another joyful creation
- By John Batchelor on 07-02-23
By: Danielle Clode
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The Last Butterflies
- A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature
- By: Nick Haddad
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Most of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarch or Painted Lady. But what about the Fender's Blue? Or the St. Francis' Satyr? Because of their extreme rarity, these butterflies are not well-known, yet they are remarkable species with important lessons to teach us....
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Very educational!
- By LaLa on 07-03-19
By: Nick Haddad
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Animal Liberation Now
- By: Peter Singer
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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For the first time since its original publication, Singer returns to the major arguments and examples and brings us to the current moment....
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21st century MUST READ
- By lorelupo on 08-06-23
By: Peter Singer
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The Wolverine Way
- By: Douglas H. Chadwick, Rick Ridgeway - foreword
- Narrated by: John Bricker
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains . . . The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it.
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Awesome book!!!
- By Sydney Mae on 12-03-24
By: Douglas H. Chadwick, and others
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Poached
- Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking
- By: Rachel Love Nuwer
- Narrated by: Christina Delaine
- Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Our insatiable demand for animals is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening the continued existence of countless species. Rachel Nuwer, an award-winning science journalist with a background in ecology, takes listeners on a narrative journey to the front lines of the trade....
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Fascinating
- By Annie on 11-30-18
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100 Heartbeats
- The Race to Save Earth's Most Endangered Species
- By: Jeff Corwin
- Narrated by: Fred Berman
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Popular television host Jeff Corwin takes listeners on a gripping journey around the world to meet the animals threatened by extinction....
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Inspirador
- By Asesorías A. on 02-02-25
By: Jeff Corwin
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Wetland Grasses, Sedges, Rushes, Mosses, Ferns & Horsetails
- Take a Walk Among Wetland Plants
- By: Ita McCobb
- Narrated by: Ita McCobb
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Most plants can’t survive the demands of “wet feet.” Usually, too much water causes them to wilt and virtually “meltdown,” as they become bloated and soggy....
By: Ita McCobb
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The Dragon Behind the Glass
- A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
- By: Emily Voigt
- Narrated by: Xe Sands
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Delving into an outlandish realm of obsession, paranoia, and criminality, The Dragon Behind the Glass tells the story of a fish like none other: a powerful predator dating to the age of the dinosaurs....
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A "must read" for all fish professionals.
- By Fishgen on 06-26-16
By: Emily Voigt
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The Last of Its Kind
- The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
- By: Gisli Palsson
- Narrated by: Paul Woodson
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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The great auk is one of the most tragic and documented examples of extinction. A flightless bird that bred primarily on the remote islands of the North Atlantic, the last of its kind were killed in Iceland in 1844.
By: Gisli Palsson
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Tenacious Beasts
- Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think About Animals
- By: Christopher J. Preston
- Narrated by: Tristan Morris
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Christopher Preston weaves together a gripping narrative of how some species are taking back vital ecological roles....
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Valuable information, mismatched narration
- By EL on 03-27-24
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Yuck
- The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca Brevifolia
- By: Barret Baumgart
- Narrated by: Barret Baumgart
- Length: 1 hr and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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YUCK is a prismatic collage, a poetic wandering, a compact history of the West as twisted and weird and ominous and beautiful as the plant it obsesses over.
By: Barret Baumgart
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The End of Eden
- Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown
- By: Adam Welz
- Narrated by: Jason Keller
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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An homage to the miraculous, vibrant entity that is life on Earth, The End of Eden explores climate change from the perspective of wild species and natural ecosystems....
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Great book, worth every minute
- By LK on 10-16-23
By: Adam Welz
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Four Fifths a Grizzly
- A New Perspective on Nature That Just Might Save Us All
- By: Douglas Chadwick
- Narrated by: Douglas Chadwick
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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What do you think of when you think of nature? Prolific author and National Geographic writer Doug Chadwick’s fresh look at human’s place in the natural world....
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Hidden gem
- By Sue on 03-05-23
By: Douglas Chadwick
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Wild Souls
- Freedom and Flourishing in the Non-Human World
- By: Emma Marris
- Narrated by: Amy Landon
- Length: 10 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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From an acclaimed environmental writer, a groundbreaking and provocative new vision for our relationships with - and responsibilities toward - the planet's wild animals....
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Hybrid look at life on earth
- By Tom Petznick on 09-29-21
By: Emma Marris
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The End of Nature
- By: Bill McKibben
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Reissued on the 10th anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the author, reviewing both the progress and ground lost in the fight to save the Earth....
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Excellent.
- By Thomas on 01-29-23
By: Bill McKibben
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Monster of God
- By: David Quammen
- Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 16 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore....
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Great book, shame about the performance
- By Shirzy on 05-23-18
By: David Quammen
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The Great Auk
- Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife
- By: Tim Birkhead
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Rich with insight and packed with tales of birds and of people, this book reveals the great auk’s life before humanity, its death on the killing shores of the North Atlantic, and the unrelenting subsequent quest for its remains.
By: Tim Birkhead
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The Last Giants
- The Rise and Fall of the African Elephant
- By: Levison Wood
- Narrated by: Levison Wood
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Ever since he was young, Levison Wood has been fascinated by elephants and their fight for survival. Whilst trekking the Nile he saw these beasts up close, and in The Last Giants, he finally satisfies his desire to learn more about the majestic African elephant....
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EXCELLENT
- By JK on 06-03-24
By: Levison Wood
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Target Earth
- Meteorites, Asteroids, Comets, and Other Cosmic Intruders That Threaten Our Planet
- By: Govert Schilling, Marilyn Hedges -translated by
- Narrated by: Mike Cooper
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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An acclaimed science writer tells the story of cosmic projectiles that may be on a collision course with our Earth.
By: Govert Schilling, and others
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The Wonder of Birds
- What They Tell Us About Ourselves, the World, and a Better Future
- By: Jim Robbins
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Birds, Jim Robbins posits, are our most vital connection to nature....
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Stories about birds with something for everyone
- By D on 07-24-17
By: Jim Robbins
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Hope for Animals and Their World
- How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
- By: Jane Goodall, Thane Maynard, Gail Hudson
- Narrated by: Jane Goodall
- Length: 12 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of these beloved species....
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Boring
- By Ken on 06-16-15
By: Jane Goodall, and others
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The Golden Toad
- An Ecological Mystery and the Search for a Lost Species
- By: Trevor Ritland, Kyle Ritland
- Narrated by: Nick Mondelli
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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The Golden Toad changes the conversation around extinction, climate change, and conservation while exploring environmental grief, resurrection, and hope in a changing world.
By: Trevor Ritland, and others