A Wild Promise

A Wild PromiseThis powerful, illustrated celebration of the Endangered Species Act opens with an essay by the Centers Board member Terry Tempest Williams. She tells us, Our wild promise within the Endangered Species Act, to protect and keep safe threatened and critically endangered species from extinction, can become a vow of action. In A Wild Promise, acclaimed artist Allen Crawford beautifully illustrates over eighty animals that embody the spirit, legacy, and

Cumberland is the country’s largest and most biologically diverse barrier island—over forty square miles of pristine wilderness celebrated for its windswept dunes and feral horses

The numbers are daunting

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the dark and speckled starlings marched across the continent like a conquering army

are forms of love that might be turned to resistance

and few compare to the giant short-faced bears that stalked North America during the Pleistocene

The word atavism

life isn’t easy

sending them running

A Wild Promise is critically urgent and inspirational

With a powerful and moving introduction by award-winning writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams

and illustrated by Meital Smith