I am thrilled to welcome Project Coyote’s newest Science Advisory Board member, Joanna Lambert. A lover and observer of the wild since she was a child, Joanna has enlightened and energized her students at numerous universities across the United States, and is currently a professor in the Program in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Project Coyote Science Advisory Board Member Joanna Lambert has traveled to some of the remotest regions of the planet in order to study wild animals in wild places. For almost 30 years she has studied rainforest ecology in equatorial Africa, where the extraordinary challenges to biodiversity and human quality of life she witnessed fundamentally impacted her approach to science and shifted her work towards solutions and human-wildlife coexistence.
Since our last edition of Coyote Chronicles, the world has turned upside down. A pandemic crisis, combined with an historic social justice movement, is redefining what we consider “normal.” We are at a critical crossroads. These challenges present a unique opportunity for systemic change—change that our planet, our society and our culture so desperately need. In fact, we are already seeing that change as people increasingly act; they engage for the causes they believe in.