This is an extraordinarily difficult time for anyone working with wildlife, to understand their life cycle, or advocating for biodiversity, as there is every chance that the species they are studying will go extinct in the next few decades. Seldom in recent history—since the last great extinction 66 million years ago, in fact—has the biosphere been in the kind of peril it is facing today. The scientific consensus says we are living through the sixth great extinction—the Holoc