Jonathan S. Adams

The Library Journal gave this work a starred review and said, "[It is] visionary, optimistic, doable, and essential, Adam's approach is a pioneering 'guide book to nature.'" From the back cover: "Johnathan S. Adams is a conservative biologist, writer, and program director with The Nature Conservancy. He is the coauthor of the Myth of Wild Africa: Conservation without Illusion. In The Future of the Wild, conservationist Jonathan S. Adams mixes fascinating case studies of species and landscapes with conservation science and history to explain why it's time to think big. Only by saving large tracks of land and the wildlife corridors that connect them can we hope to save the widest variety of species in any ecosystem. And only by saving whole ecosystems, including human communities, can we hope to make significant strides in conservation."… (mere)