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Podcast: Mongabay Newscast
Episode: Celebrated author David Quammen on inspiring ecological restoration, evolutionary science, and more
Description: David Quammen is an award-winning science writer, author, and journalist covering the most promising trends in conservation and evolutionary science for the past 30 years. We invited him on the show to discuss his latest feature for National Geographic, where he is a regular contributor, about Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique — once touted by none other than E.O. Wilson in a podcast interview with Mongabay as a place where inspiring restoration efforts are underway and benefitting nature, wildlife, and people. We also discuss Quammen's most recent book, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, which explores the revolu...