Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder · Emergence Magazine · 2020
The Lord God Bird
The ancient trees proved too valuable to be protected.
Why we picked it
A species-level tragedy becomes a lucid account of how habitat loss, wartime demand, pesticides, and cultural myth converged around the ivory-billed woodpecker.
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