Conservation Book Club

  

Champlain ARea trails ’ Conservation book club will meet Tuesday, january 14th, from 5 pM - 6 Pm.

  

"Birding to Change the World" by Trish O'Kane.  “Fascinating, insightful, informative, and inspirational—Birding to Change the World shows how to be a person and a citizen of the world. I could not put it down.” — Bernd Heinrich, award-winning biologist and author of The Snoring Bird

  

Trish O’Kane never expected to be a birder. It was a lone red cardinal and a bumptious cast of house sparrows that changed everything for O’Kane after Hurricane Katrina shattered her life in New Orleans. Watching birds thrive throughout the devastated city became her salvation and set her on a new path. Soon O’Kane found herself pursuing an environmental science PhD in Wisconsin, where she became a full-on bird obsessive—logging hours and hours in a stunningly diverse urban park, filling field notebooks with observations of bird doings and dramas, and volunteering in a wildlife rehabilitation center bird nursery.

  

But it wasn’t until that park, her bird-watching haven, was threatened with development that O’Kane became an environmental activist. Taking her cues from the birds, she mustered a mighty flock of fellow human park lovers to raise their voices and save the park.

  

“A human rights journalist embraces environmental justice…in her engaging debut memoir…A delightful homage to birds and nature in general.” — Kirkus Reviews

  

REGISTRATION: If you are interested in joining on Zoom, email bookclub@champlainareatrails.com. Once registration is confirmed, we will send the Zoom link the day before the meeting.

  

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