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We talk about my upcoming book Baggage, as well as mental health, current environmental issues, overpopulation, and zoos!

My latest column for Mongabay: the one where I rant about the best news of 2020. 

I feel ridiculously honored that my series on insect decline won second place in Society of Environmental Journalists‘ annual awards. The series won under the category of “Explanatory Journalism.

Of course I couldn’t have done any of this without my editor Glenn Scherer (who had the idea for the series in the first place) and Mongabay‘s willingness to spend resources on a long series about the loss of the freaking backbone of Mother Earth: insects.

So, it’s a good time to share the series again. Here’s the first article of four. I’m currently working on a follow-up piece! 

You can’t have too many books about nature, right? And did you know that pre-orders really help books get on to bestseller lists?

With that in mind, we invite anyone who has pre-ordered Baggage by August 9th, 2020 to enter for a chance to win one of the seven nature-inspired books. We’ll pick three winners the next week. Check out the bottom of the page for Terms & Conditions as well as information about the titles you can choose from.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE QUICK 3-QUESTION SUBMISSION FORM

TERMS & CONDITIONS

1. By submitting your receipt in the Baggage Pre-Order Contest Form or via email, you agree to these Terms & Conditions.
2. Entrants have until August 9, 2020 to purchase and submit their receipt via the Jotform Survey above or emailed to jlhance@gmail.com.
3. This promotion is open to entrants who are at least 14 years old as of August 3, 2020.
4. One entry per purchase.
5. No entrant may receive more than one prize.
6. Prizes are non-transferable and non-refundable. No cash alternative is available.
7. Three separate entries will win (via random picker) their selected nature book, which we will do our best to mail your selected book to you anywhere in the world.
8. Unsuccessful entrants will not be notified.
9. We may amend or cancel the promotion at any time for any reason without notice. We may amend these Terms & Conditions without notice by posting changes to them on this website.

ABOUT THE BOOKS YOU CAN CHOOSE

Come to Saving Life on Earth: Words on the Wild and read about a bold new project, BioAlfa, that proposes to use DNA barcoding to identify Costa Rica’s million- plus species.

Feeling lonely and isolated? Conservationists feel that way most of the time.

Read more in Overworked, underpaid and lonely: Conservationists find a new community online about the struggles of young environmental workers and the new organization that is providing moral support.

My recent piece – Lethal algae blooms – an ecosystem out of balance – published on The Guardian looks around the globe, from the United States to the Baltic and beyond, as toxic algae formations are part of a concerning trend linked to farming practices and our climate crisis.

From 2015 to 2018, I wrote my Radical Conservation blog for The Guardian.

I am currently writing a monthly column for Mongabay called Saving Life on Earth: Words on the Wild. The column focuses on innovative conservation, little-known species, and other topics.

In 2011 , I was lucky enough to publish a series of essays from my time at Mongabay, titled Life is Good: Conservation in an Age of Mass Extinction. The compilation received a starred review from Publisher’s Weekly. The review praises the book, saying “Overall, the collection manages to raise environmental alarms without falling into hopeless predictions of doom. And Hance urges a knowledge- and science-based approach to conservation, while also exhorting readers to allow themselves to feel a sense of awe when interacting with other creatures.”