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Guardians of the trees : a journey of hope through healing the planet / Kinari Webb.
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Webb, Kinari.
Flatiron Books, 2021.
Call #:
921
W366g
Subjects
Webb, Kinari.
Women physicians -- Biography.
Environmental health.
Forests and forestry -- Health aspects.
Rain forests.
Human ecology.
ISBN:
9781250751386 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Journey of hope through healing the planet
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xiii, 287 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
A "magnificent, empowering" (Bill McKibben) memoir about a woman spearheading a global initiative to heal the world's rainforests and the communities who depend on them. When Kinari Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local communities, she realized that their need to pay for expensive healthcare led directly to the rampant logging, which in turn imperiled their health and safety even further. Webb realized her true calling was at the intersection of medicine and conservation. After graduating with honors from the Yale School of Medicine, Webb returned to Borneo, listening to local communities about their solutions for how to both protect the rainforests and improve their lives. Founding two non-profits, Health in Harmony in the U.S. and ASRI in Indonesia, Webb and her local and international teams partnered with rainforest communities, building a clinic, developing regenerative economies, providing educational opportunities, and dramatically transforming the region. But just when everything was going right, Webb was stung by a deadly box jellyfish and would spend the next four years fighting for her life, a fight that would lead her to rethink everything. Was she ready to expand her work to a global scale and take climate change head on? Full of hope and optimism, Webb takes us on an exhilarating, galvanizing journey across the world, sharing her passion for the natural world and for humanity. In our current moment of crisis, 'Guardians of the trees' is an essential roadmap for moving forward and the inspiring story of one woman's quest to heal the world.
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