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David Quammen is an award-winning science writer, author, and journalist covering the most promising trends in conservation and evolutionary science for the past 30 years. We invited him on the show to discuss his latest feature for National Geographic, where he is a regular contributor, about Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique \u2014 once touted by none other than E.O. Wilson in a podcast\xa0interview with Mongabay\xa0as a place where inspiring restoration efforts are underway and benefitting nature, wildlife, and people. We also discuss\xa0Quammen\u2019s most recent book,\xa0The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, which explores the revolution in how scientists understand the history of evolution on Earth sparked by the work of Carl Woese, and his coverage of virology in light of the recent Ebola outbreak. He shares his thoughts on all of this plus what gives him hope that biodiversity loss and destruction of the natural world can be halted.

Here\u2019s this episode\u2019s top news:

• From over 100,000 species assessments in IUCN update, zero improvements
• June 2019 was the hottest on record: NOAA
• U.S. Virgin Islands bans coral-damaging sunscreens

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