Key points

Dr. Joyner offers hope to a world where biodiversity loss, climate change, and pandemics threaten us all.

Her book recognizes multispecies intelligence as a scientific discipline and mindfulness practice.

Transformative conservation includes emotional, social, multispecies, ecological, and spiritual intelligences.

It can help change the mindset of how we engage with birds, other animals, and one another.

Endangered sun parakeets in Guyana where LoraKim works. Source: Agnes Coenen/with permission.

Birds are among the most common animals that numerous people around the world are able to see and hear in diverse habitats. The loss of birdsong was among the reasons why Rachel Carson’s classic Silent Spring had such an enormous impact and is thought to be the beginning of

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