Kierán Suckling is a founder and executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity, a nonprofit conservation group with innovative approaches to the protection of endangered species, wilderness, clean air, and clean water that has secured protection for over 500 endangered species and 450,000,000 acres of habitat. In addition to overseeing the organization’s conservation, finance, fundraising, and administration programs, Suckling writes and lectures on the threats to, preservation of, and relationships between cultural and biological diversity and maintains a comprehensive endangered species research and management database. He co-founded the organization in 1989 while working on his doctoral dissertation and has also served as its policy director.
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Human survival depends on an extraordinarily complex dance with animals. From the bees whose pollinating habits give us much of our food supply to the primates who testify to...