Awards

• Commended for Independent Publisher Book Awards (Ecology/Environment) 2011

Overview

Urban sprawl, wasteful water use, increasingly ferocious wildfires, changing weather patterns, chronic political infighting. These are but a few of the problems facing animal and plant species throughout the United States and the world. One law, the Endangered Species Act, serves as the primary safety net for protecting wildlife driven to the brink. Can it save us from an extinction crisis? In Endangered, award-winning journalist Mitch Tobin investigates the threats to our planet and offers solutions to potential disaster. Tobin reports from the front lines of Endangered Species Act battles, using America's hottest, driest, fastest-growing region--the Southwest--as a snapshot of the complex and myriad issues confronting imperiled species. These firsthand accounts, eloquently and thoughtfully told, explain the challenges of protecting the natural world and give hope for ecosystems thrown off balance. Mitch Tobin worked as a journalist from 1999 to 2006, covering wildlife, wildfires, and other environmental issues for the Tucson Citizen, Arizona Daily Star, and High Country News. Endangered grew out of Tobin's yearlong series on Arizona's endangered species, which was a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. His work was honored in the Best of the West competition and received first prizes from the Arizona Press Club and Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors. Today, Tobin serves as a consultant to leading conservation groups and foundations.

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Little in Mitch Tobin's deeply reported book about the landmark legislation is pat or predictable... This kind of deep, resource-intensive reporting is itself an endangered species. - Utne Reader <br> Tobin - with meticulously researched reportage and a hands-on approach - reminds readers that the American Southwest is the real ground zero in the ongoing battle to better manage and protect the nation's precious wildlife. -Pasatiempo <br> On the surface, Endangered is a comprehensive environmental history of the American Southwest (Arizona and New Mexico, and pieces of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado and Texas). But this is really just the background through which Tobin cleverly weaves his tale of the ESA and the various fault lines it has created in both the political and the natural worlds. -Tucson Weekly <br>. . . the author pulls the Endangered Species Act out of the political catfight that often impedes its enforcement and sheds light on the act's intricacies, using science and a keen human element as his great illuminators . . . His engaging portraits of the movers and shakers on both ends of the political spectrum reveal some surprising results in the biodiversity blame game . . . -Santa Fe New Mexican <br> Mitch Tobin takes us to the edge of life. Mass extinction is now our way of death and unless we heed this clear-eyed book with vivid examples from the Southwest, well, we're going to be home alone. -Charles Bowden, author of Down by the River and Murder City <br> In Endangered: Biodiversity on the Brink, Mitch Tobin examines the messy battles that surround the Endangered Species Act. Endangered is dense yet engaging, and it is at its best when Tobin draws in his experiences as a journalist. Tobin repeatedly shows how competing interests over endangered species are embroiled in battles that extend beyond environmental issues, and reveals how the individuals involved do not fit readymade typecasts. For anyone with even a f

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For 15 years, Mitch Tobin has been exploring and writing about the American West and its rapidly changing environment. As a reporter, he won numerous awards for his science writing, explanatory journalism, and breaking news coverage. From 1998 to 2006, Mitch covered environmental issues for the Napa Valley Register, Tucson Citizen, Arizona Daily Star, and High Country News. He won numerous awards for explanatory, feature, and deadline writing, including two first prizes from the Arizona Associated Press Managing Editors for his stories on water and border issues. Endangered grew out of his yearlong series on Arizona's endangered species, which was a finalist for the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism.

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