This is the fourth year Rick has presented during the National Biodiversity Teach In. He is an author (Nature Aware and Rough Cut:Lessons from Endangered Species) and filmmaker (Journey Home, Saving Sirenia, Fragile Waters and Deconstructing Eden). He is also a volunteer marine mammal stranding responder and on the Whatcom Marine Mammal Stranding Network Board of Directors. Rick is currently at work on his next book about global poaching and has traveled to China and Tanzania over the past year for research. He will be explaining how Humans and Monkeys are conflicting in Asia