Archive for the ‘Book News’ Category

Anson Wong Caught

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

Anson Wong has been arrested. He was caught after his luggage, containing South American boa constrictors, venomous vipers and a Peruvian mata mata turtle broke on an airport conveyor belt. 

Photo: The Star

Here are some news clips:

Mongabay

Asia One

Free Malaysia Today News

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BC at Delaware Valley Herp Society

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Hey, if you’re in the Delaware Valley, which is to say, somewhere around Philadelphia come on out to the Delaware Valley herpetological society meeting in Maple Shade, NJ on June 25 at 8 pm.  I’m giving a talk.  It should be a great time.  Here are the details.

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Harvard’s Nieman Foundn. Storyboards My Wildlife Crime Reporting

Monday, March 8th, 2010

I got a nice surprise today from Andrea Pitzer at Harvard’s Nieman Storyboard letting me know they’d done a piece on my thoughts about wildlife crime reporting, called Walk on the Wild Side:  animal stories that don’t stand up

I was especially surprised at the photo :-). 

For those interested in narrative non-fiction the Nieman Foundation’s  Narrative Digest and Nieman Storyboard are fantastic resources and I’m psyched to be mentioned.

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