BBC Wildlife Magazine

GILLIAN BURKE

LOVE THE NATURAL WORLD (obviously) but my work, time and energy have been increasingly drawn to figuring us humans out. Everything we are and everything we do is, after all, an intricate part of the natural world. In just my lifetime, we’ve blown past six Earth Summits and 26 Conference of the Parties (COPs), and more than a century has passed since the first

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