I'm the founder of Mongabay, a non-profit organization that covers issues at the intersection of people and nature via a global network of local reporters. I also write and take pictures.

Reflections on books and trees.

I write about wildlife, the natural world, and public health, based on my career as an author of books like "The Species Seekers" and "Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time," and as a contributor to magazines, television documentaries, and public radio.

The Intertwined Lives of People and Trees

Unveiling the science behind natural remedies

Essays on wildlife, wild places and the human condition.

Dispatches Against Despair, from the Wild, Weird World of Humanity and its Biosphere.