Wade Davis- National Geographic Society

Wade Davis is the bestselling author of several books, including The Serpent and the Rainbow, Light at the Edge of the World, andd The Clouded Leopard. He is also an awardwinning anthropologist, ethnobotanist, filmmaker, and photographer, and his writing and photographs have appeared in numerous publications, including thee Globe and Maill, Maclean'ss, Newsweekk, National Geographicc, thee Wall Street Journall, and thee Washington Postt. Davis divides his time between Washington, D.C. and northern British Columbia. Over the past decade, many of us have been alarmed to learn of the rapidly accelerating extinction of our planet's diverse flora and fauna. But how many of us know that our human cultural diversity is also going extinct at a shocking rate?