On a Butterfly's Wing

Lessons From Nature on Embracing Change

AvAstrid Vargas

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

In our era of global change, we need narratives that offer hope. On a Butterfly’s Wing is just that. A beautifully illustrated, autobiographical story, told by one of the world’s leading conservationists, it describes how the parallel lives of a butterfly and a beloved mother can help us to reflect on the unique privilege of being alive.En route, we discover the extraordinary metamorphoses of a butterfly’s life, and how these hold lessons for the difficult transformations of our own.On a Butterfly’s Wing invites us to collaborate in conservation. It shows us how to restore our relationship with the butterflies that mitigate and measure our planet’s health, and invests profits in planting flowers – arranged in butterfly shapes – to affect its own transformation by feeding future generations of pollinators.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-10-24
Mått:215 x 165 x 20 mm
Vikt:248 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Riverside Press
Antal sidor:128
Förlag:Riverside Press
ISBN:9781739798857

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Mer om författaren

Astrid Vargas is a conservation biologist with an outstanding record in leading environmental restoration programmes. She has been a key figure in the recovery of three of the world’s most endangered species: the Iberian lynx (Spain), the black-footed ferret (USA) and the golden-crowned sifaka (Madagascar). Astrid was named by El País as one of the Top 100 people in Ibero-America. She has earned a Lifetime Career Achievement Award from the Government of Andalusia, a Nature Conservation and Research Award from EDC, Spain, and a top 10 nomination in the global Future for Nature Awards, The Netherlands. Astrid believes in the power of art and inspiration to transform society. She is the founder of Inspiration 4 Action, an initiative that inspires communities to bring collective creativity into ecosystem restoration.

Recensioner i media

“Every so often a book comes along with a sweep and magic that means you’ll rarely find a copy languishing in a secondhand bookshop because it has metamorphosed into a family treasure.” —Tim Smit, Co-Founder, Eden Project

Innehållsförteckning

PrologueI. The Magic of Transformation1. A Quick Overflight2. Shedding and Growing3. The Imaginal Soup4. A Fateful AccidentII. My Life as a Flightless Butterfly5. Mission Amatxi6. The Gregarious Globetrotters7. Never Give UpIII. Lessons from Nature8. The Eternal Cycle9. Looking BackIV. Regeneration10. Attention, Here and Now11. Looking Forward12. StardustIn MemoriamGratitudeDisappearing ButterfliesResourcesAbout the AuthorAcknowledgements