Our Wild World

My guest today, Will Stolzenburg, is no newcomer to our wild world- both as a guest here, but more so as an investigative journalist. On hundreds of remote islands around the world massive -and massively controversial- wildlife rescue missions have been well under way, often under the radar. Our Islands, fragile ecosystems home to unique species and most of the largest sea-bird colonies that exist anywhere on the globe. These wildlife and avian colonies, which evolved in peaceful isolation, have been catastrophically disrupted by us,and the mainland predators- rats, cats, goats, and pigs- we ferry around with us wherever we have explored. Amid the many challenges and threats to life on Earth, risking life and limb on perilous adventure, Stoltenberg’s, Rat Island delivers to readers not only the intimate portraits of nature and her beasts, heroes and villains, but he also reveals reasons to hope.