Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet
Written by Ben Goldfarb
Narrated by Malcolm Hillgartner
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Yet road ecologists are also seeking to blunt the destruction through innovative solutions. Goldfarb meets with conservationists building bridges for California's mountain lions and tunnels for English toads, engineers deconstructing the labyrinth of logging roads that web national forests, animal rehabbers caring for Tasmania's car-orphaned wallabies, and community organizers working to undo the havoc highways have wreaked upon American cities.
Editor's Note
Award-winning author…
Roads are such an integral part of life that we rarely stop to think about how unnatural they truly are. Environmental journalist Goldfarb follows his award-winning book “Eager,” with this riveting look at the detrimental effects of roadways on wildlife. Roadkill is just the tip of the iceberg — there’s also habitat destruction and migration disruption. Though the facts presented in “Crossings” are often alarming, Goldfarb balances these truths with humor and hope.
Ben Goldfarb
Ben Goldfarb is an award-winning environmental journalist who covers wildlife conservation, marine science, and public lands management, as well as an accomplished fiction writer. His work has been featured in Science, Mother Jones, The Guardian, High Country News, VICE, Audubon Magazine, Modern Farmer, Orion, World Wildlife Magazine, Scientific American, Yale Environment 360, and many other publications. He holds a master of environmental management from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and is a 2018 North American Congress for Conservation Biology journalist fellow.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5It’s very inspiring. We all know life isn’t perfect and many things don’t go the way we want them to go but this book gives hope
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