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02894aam a22003498i 4500 001 862A11D4EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210722010305 008 210528s2021 nyu 000 0beng 010 $a 2021024209 020 $a 1250751381 : HRD 020 $a 9781250751386 : HRD 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a RA565 $b .W43 2021 100 1 $a Webb, Kinari, $e author. 245 10 $a Guardians of the trees : $b a journey of hope through healing the planet / $c Kinari Webb, M.D.. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2109 264 1 $a New York : $b Flatiron Books, $c 2021. 300 $a pages cm 520 $a "A "magnificent, empowering" (Bill McKibben) memoir about a woman spearheading a global initiative to heal the world's rainforests and the communities who depend on them When Kinari Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local communities, she realized that their need to pay for expensive healthcare led directly to the rampant logging, which in turn imperiled their health and safety even further. Webb realized her true calling was at the intersection of medicine and conservation. After graduating with honors from the Yale School of Medicine, Webb returned to Borneo, listening to local communities about their solutions for how to both protect the rainforests and improve their lives. Founding two non-profits, Health in Harmony in the U.S. and ASRI in Indonesia, Webb and her local and international teams partnered with rainforest communities, building a clinic, developing regenerative economies, providing educational opportunities, and dramatically transforming the region. But just when everything was going right, Webb was stung by a deadly box jellyfish and would spend the next four years fighting for her life, a fight that would lead her to rethink everything. Was she ready to expand her work to a global scale and take climate change head on? Full of hope and optimism, Webb takes us on an exhilarating, galvanizing journey across the world,sharing her passion for the natural world and for humanity. In our current moment of crisis, Guardians of the Trees is an essential roadmap for moving forward and the inspiring story of one woman's quest to heal the world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Webb, Kinari $x Health. 650 0 $a Environmental health. 650 0 $a Forests and forestry $x Health aspects. 650 0 $a Rain forests. 650 0 $a Human ecology. 941 $a 4 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20230706011719.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20220804024120.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20211002012026.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722065052.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=862A11D4EAB411EB95DB475F3FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search