Program Description
In the fifty years that Kathleen Dean Moore has been writing about nature, the populations of North American robins and red-wing blackbirds have been cut by a third. Only a quarter of migrating shorebirds remain. How did this come to be? Why must we care? What are we going to do about it? Moore says, “Unless the world acts to stop extinctions, I will write my last nature essay on a planet that is barely half as song-graced and life-drenched as the one where I began to write.”