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Will Stolzenburg is a wildlife journalist who for the past twenty years has been covering the beat called conservation biology. More specifically, he has been heralding the planet's sixth mass extinction while celebrating its survivors, wherever he might find them.
 It is an occupation that has typically had him portraying nature's grandest spectacles against backdrops of destruction. As former science editor of Nature Conservancy magazine, Stolzenburg has profiled lonely park guards fighting swarms of timber poachers in one of Amazonia's wildest tracts of tropical forest. He has described evolutionary marvels from atop a Venezuelan peak never before visited by humans, while watching the forests below slashed and burned by the advancing masses. On the brink of a cliff in the middle of the Bering Sea, he has witnessed one of the world's mightiest gatherings of seabirds, above beaches where one of the mightiest gatherings of seals is mysteriously vanishing.
After fifteen years at the Conservancy, Stolzenburg recently quit his post to pursue the most captivating story of all, which has since become his first book. Where The Wild Things Were follows a band of scientists awakening to the critical role of Earth's great predators in sustaining the diversity of life—their discoveries given solemn weight by the beasts' ongoing disappearance from every corner of the biosphere. In parts elegy and eulogy, Where the Wild Things Were explores the power of the great predators, and uncovers a world of unsettling paradox—of menace and chaos erupting where nature's fiercest and scariest beasts no longer rule.
Stolzenburg holds a Master's degree in wildlife from New Mexico State University, where he explored the science of predator control. He now writes from his home in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, a state where one in 57 motorists will collide with a deer this year, and where wolves and cougars have been missing for nearly a century.
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WHERE THE WILD THINGS WERE
Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
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