Biography Today : Profiles of People of Interest to Young Readers (World Leaders Series, Vol 3: Environmental Leaders #2)

The in-depth biographical profiles are written for readers ages 9 and up and include portaits and other illustrations. The 11 environmental leaders covered in this volume are John Cronin (Hudson River clean-up), Dai Qing (Chinese journalist and author of banned books on Yangtze River dam project), Ka Hsaw Wa (Burmese human rights and environmental activist), Winona Laduke (Native American environmental activist), Aldo Leopold (American author of A Sand County Almanac), Bernard Martin (Canadian environmentalist), Cynthia Moss (American elephant researcher), John Muir (founder of the Sierra Club), Gaylord Nelson (conservation-minded senator known as the father of Earth Day), Douglas Tompkins (American entrepreneur and environmentalist who acquires land for wilderness preservation), and Hazel Wolf (recently-deceased 100-year-old Audobon Society activist from Seattle).