Why Wildlife Crossings?

Writing The Story of Conservation opened so many avenues of research and interest – particularly the challenges of the fragmentation of nature and the role of wildlife crossings. Investigating the global stories of wildlife corridors from tiny Hedgehog Highways to zipwire long gibbon swings has been fascinating and insightful. It has certainly helped my own understanding of the story of conservation today and the critical importance of a huge variety of wildlife corridors in both scale and type. Wildlife Crossings: Protecting Animal Pathways around the World available to buy here (US edition out in August) explores the journeys of elephants, hedgehogs, gibbons, spoon-billed sandpipers, cougars, bears and salmon revealing a global map of wildlife corridors.

My blog for the Federation of Children’s Book Groups gives some background to the story of this book. I’m very excited to share it with children - and enormously grateful to the scientists who shared their knowledge revealed across these pages. Christiane’s illustrations tell more of the story that I can in words so focus in on the details and enjoy!