William deBuys is the author of seven books, including the just published A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest (a Pulitzer Prize finalist), and The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize). He has long been involved in environmental affairs in the Southwest, including service as founding chairman of the Valles Caldera Trust, which administers the 87,000-acre Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico.
How the $20 billion illegal animal trade has pushed the saola—and countless other species—to the brink of extinction.
Like the Civil Rights Act, the Wilderness Act brought about justice, but also compassion for the planet.