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WHILE IN FILM SCHOOL, ERIC DINERSTEIN— WHO BY 

 his own admission was "training to be the anti-Thoreau" — was cap- 

 tivated by a little green heron. He spent the next 30 years exploring the 

 natural world, traveling to all ends of the Earth to discover and pro- 

 tect wildlife. Now the chief scientist at the World Wildlife Fund-US, 

 Dinerstein recounts his explorations of the wildlife and landscapes he 

 encountered — from the forests of Nepal to the Galapagos Islands to 

 the eastern plains of Montana — in Tigerlani and Other Unintended Destinations. 



Seeking the Sacred Raven, by Mark Jerome Walters, tracks the fate of the 

 'Alala, a sacred Hawaiian bird and member of the raven family. Walters 

 explores the role of the bird in Hawaiian culture and its decline to near- 

 extinction; once numbering in the thousands, today only 50 'Alala sur- 

 vive in captivity. He travels through the cloud forests of Mauna Loa 

 interviewing biologists and others to assemble the story of the sacred 

 bird and the people who battled to save it. Walters captures not only 

 the many dimensions of species loss but also the story of the Hawaiian 

 people and culture, from the ancient Polynesian settlers, to Captain 

 Cook, to the would-be saviors of the 'Alala in the 1990s. 



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