Our Once-Abundant Earth
May 13, 2024 at 09:36 AM EDT
Protecting species from extinction is not nearly enough. When Otis Parrish was a kid in the 1940s, abalone were abundant. Each abalone grows in a single, beautiful opalescent shell, which can get as big as a dinner plate. Parrish’s father showed him how to pry the abalone off the rocky shoreline at … Source