life refues to allign with that wild call for clarity that echoes in our hearts

Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Charming, smart, heart-blistering, and heart-healing.' -Danez Smith, The New York Times Book Review 'We all need-we all deserve-this vibrant, love-affirming novel that bounds over any difference that claims to separate us.' -Ron Charles, The Washington Post From James McBride, author of the bestselling Oprah's Book Club pick Deacon King Kong and the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. A companion volume to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth, Protecting the Wild provides a necessary addition to the conversation about the future of conservation in the so-called Anthropocene, one that will be useful for academics, policymakers, and conservation practitioners at all levels, from local land trusts to international NGOs.'A murder mystery locked inside a Great American Novel. In it, experts from five continents reaffirm that parks, wilderness areas, and other reserves are an indispensable-albeit insufficient-means to sustain species, subspecies, key habitats, ecological processes, and evolutionary potential. Protecting the Wild offers a spirited argument for the robust protection of the natural world.

If such arguments take hold, we risk losing support for the unique qualities and values of wild, undeveloped nature. Conservation, they argue, should instead focus on lands managed for human use-working landscapes-and abandon the goal of preventing human-caused extinctions in favor of maintaining ecosystem services to support people. But even as the biodiversity crisis accelerates, a growing number of voices are suggesting that protected areas are passé. These parks and reserves are set apart to forever remain in contrast to those places where human activities, technologies, and developments prevail. Protected natural areas have historically been the primary tool of conservationists to conserve land and wildlife.

Life refues to allign with that wild call for clarity that echoes in our hearts