While a predisposition toward optimism is by no means a prerequisite for involvement in the animal welfare movement, we can all agree that these are auspicious times for the cause. The last ten years have brought enormous change to the way western society thinks about and engages with species other than our own. Vegetarianism and veganism are wholly…
Andrew Westoll
Andrew Westoll is the author of The Riverbones: Stumbling after Eden in the Jungles of Suriname (McClelland and Stewart, 2008) and The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary: A True Story of Resilience and Recovery (HarperCollins, 2011), which won the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Nonfiction. His debut novel, The Jungle South of the Mountain, was published in 2016.