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Carl Safina



Carl Safina, PhD, is an American author, ecologist, and MacArthur Fellow. He writes about the relationship between human beings and the natural world. He founded the nonprofit Safina Center, whose mission is to “advance the case for Life on Earth by fusing scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action.”

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Avoiding a ‘Ghastly Future’: Hard Truths on the State of the Planet

A group of the world’s top ecologists have issued a stark warning about the snowballing crisis caused by climate change, population growth, and unchecked development. Their assessment is grim, but big-picture societal changes on a global scale can still avert a disastrous future.

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Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World’s Coasts and Beneath the Seas

Part odyssey, part pilgrimage, this epic personal narrative follows the author’s exploration of coasts, islands, reefs, and the sea’s abyssal depths.

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This Rescue Moose Was Also 2020

Let’s celebrate the strange and marvelous creatures of Earth while we still can.

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Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace

Some believe that culture is strictly a human phenomenon. But this book reveals cultures of other-than-human beings in some of Earth’s remaining wild places.

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Voyage of the Turtle: In Pursuit of the Earth’s Last Dinosaur

Though nature is indifferent to the struggles of her creatures, the human effect on them is often premeditated.

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Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

Weaving decades of field observations with exciting new discoveries about the brain, Carl Safina’s landmark book offers an intimate view of animal behavior to challenge the fixed boundary between humans and nonhuman animals.

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Takaya: Lone Wolf

A lone wild wolf lives on a small group of uninhabited islands in British Columbia’s Salish Sea, surrounded by freighter, oil tanker and other boat traffic and in close proximity to a large urban area. His name is Takaya, which is the Coast Salish First Nations people’s word for wolf.

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Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed

Herman Melville’s haunting inquiry—“whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc”—returns to me again while every whale in every ocean returns to share our air in seas we’re warming and thickening with plastic.

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