RSVP: Will Wright in conversation with Jim Robbins

Please join us for a fascinating author talk with Will Wright—author of Borders of Biodiversity—in conversation with journalist Jim Robbins.

“Illuminating and significant. Wright’s study of an unlikely trio of transnational species—a tree, an insect, a mammal—reveals the ways organisms shaped historical approaches to landscape connectivity.”—Emily Wakild, author of A Moderating Force: Conserving Nature in National Parks in Patagonia and Amazonia

What happens to species when climate disruption causes suitable habitat within one country to move or vanish? In Borders of Biodiversity, Will Wright examines the histories of transnational conservation efforts to address the tension between a warming world in which living things are on the move and an increasingly walled world in which their movements are constrained. Focusing on the histories of three border-crossing species—gray wolves, monarch butterflies, and giant sequoias—from the 1850s to the present day, Wright reveals how nonstate actors like citizen scientists think beyond political borders…