About the Book:

With only a few hundred of Siberian, or Amur, tigers left at the end of the Cold War, they seemed a species destined for extinction. Slaught chronicles the remarkable story of the American and Russian conservationists who worked together to brink this species back from the brink, in a heartening story in an era of climate disaster.

About the Author:

Jonathan Slaght is the author of Owls of the Eastern Ice, which won the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award and the Minnesota Book Award for General Nonfiction, and was long-listed for the National Book Award. He is an expert on endangered species of northeast Asia, and works as the regional director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Temperate Asia Program, overseeing programs in China, Mongolia, and Afghanistan, and projects in Russia and Central Asia. His writings and work have been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, BBC World Service, NPR, and Scientific American, among others.