Alwyn Gentry died young, but left a forest’s worth of ideas behind

Mongabay
May 7, 2025, 2:06 am258 ptsTrendingTop
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Long before “biodiversity hotspot” became a conservation cliché, Alwyn Howard Gentry was painstakingly mapping them — one vine, one tree, one tenth-hectare transect at a…

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