Passenger Pigeon Ben Novak, our staff scientist, has spelled out on our website exactly how the whole Passenger Pigeon revival will play out, from his current genetic and
ecological research at UC Santa Cruz, through genome editing and chimeric parents, to eventual restoration of wild flocks to America's regrown eastern forest to take up their
old role of forest regeneration.
I have found that no creature is impossible to make appealing, and perhaps that is partly the
role of the illustrator in the service of conservation education: to entice the viewer to re-examine
old prejudices and thereby better appreciate the
ecological and aesthetic value of each and every form of life.