Join a lively discussion of Eight Bears by Gloria Dickie, listed as best book of the year by The New Yorker. Dickie is an award-winning journalist and author, and a global climate and environment correspondent at Reuters News Agency. Note, the format has changed slightly to facilitate discussion.

From the author’s website

 “In Eight Bears, journalist Gloria Dickie embarks on a globe-trotting journey to explore each bear’s story, whisking readers from the cloud forests of the Andes to the ice floes of the Arctic; from the jungles of India to the backwoods of the Rocky Mountain West. She meets with key figures on the frontlines of modern conservation efforts—the head of a rescue center for sun and moon bears freed from bile farms, a biologist known as Papa Panda, who has led China’s panda-breeding efforts for almost four decades, a conservationist retraining a military radar system to detect and track polar bears near towns—to reveal the unparalleled challenges bears face as they contend with a rapidly changing climate and encroaching human populations.”

Date: Sunday, February 23
Time: 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Location: online meeting; details emailed with registration confirmation
Cost: free to FOCC members; $5 donation appreciated for non-members
Ages: 12 and up

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