em’s Reviews > Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures > Status Update

“It is a difficult world to survive in, this one we have created. It is so very beautiful and it is so ruthlessly perilous to the vulnerable. We will have to demand more, both from our adversaries and from our friends. The alternative, a world in which humanity lives alongside a tiny handful of species amid empty skies and empty seas, becomes more possible every year. Now is the time to act. Now and now and now.”

charmed & close to tears and haven’t even finished the introduction yet