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The Golden Toad de Trevor Ritland

The Golden Toad

Autor Trevor Ritland, Kyle Ritland
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 iun 2025

Observăm în ultimele decenii o evoluție alarmantă a discursului despre biodiversitate, unde studiul speciilor individuale a devenit o radiografie a sănătății întregului ecosistem planetar. The Golden Toad nu este doar o cronică a unei dispariții, ci o investigație documentară riguroasă despre fragilitatea vieții în pădurile de ceață din Costa Rica. Putem afirma că frații Trevor Ritland și Kyle Ritland reușesc să transforme o căutare personală, moștenită de la tatăl lor biolog, într-o analiză pertinentă a crizei extincției moderne.

Structura volumului este una duală: în timp ce Trevor caută indicii ale supraviețuirii broaștei aurii în cele mai izolate regiuni din Monteverde, Kyle analizează factorii care au dus la colapsul populației, de la patogeni fungici la transformările climatice radicale. Această abordare oferă cititorului o perspectivă completă asupra modului în care o specie endemică poate fi ștearsă de pe hartă în doar câțiva ani. Considerăm că forța acestui text rezidă în capacitatea de a integra datele științifice într-o narațiune de tip mister ecologic, fără a sacrifica acuratețea faptelor.

Ca alternativă la In Search of the Golden Frog pentru cursurile de conservare a vieții sălbatice sau ecologie, această lucrare aduce avantajul unei perspective actualizate asupra „doliului ecologic” și a eforturilor contemporane de restaurare susținute de organizații globale precum Re:wild. Dacă titlurile anterioare se concentrau pe expediții de teren clasice, The Golden Toad propune o schimbare de paradigmă, discutând deschis despre posibilitatea „reînvierii” speciilor și despre responsabilitatea noastră colectivă în fața unui viitor incert.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781635769968
ISBN-10: 1635769965
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 160 x 231 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Diversion Publishing - Ips

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte oricui este interesat de conservarea speciilor și de misterele lumii naturale. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care schimbările climatice afectează habitatele izolate și descoperă povestea captivantă a unei specii simbolice. Este o lectură esențială pentru studenții la biologie și pentru activiștii de mediu care caută un echilibru între realismul științific și speranța necesară în eforturile de conservare.

Despre autor

Trevor și Kyle Ritland sunt frați gemeni, documentariști și scriitori specializați în probleme de mediu. Pasiunea lor pentru natură a fost cultivată de tatăl lor, biolog de teren, ale cărui proiecții cu broasca aurie din Costa Rica le-au marcat copilăria. Cei doi colaborează frecvent cu organizații internaționale de conservare, utilizând povestirea vizuală și scrisul pentru a atrage atenția asupra speciilor pe cale de dispariție. Activitatea lor se concentrează pe intersecția dintre știință, explorare și etică ecologică.

Descriere scurtă

The Costa Rican cloud forest, a mysterious amphibian killer, and a vanished species: with support from Leonardo DiCaprio’s Re:wild campaign, twin documentarians and environmental writers follow their father’s footsteps into the heart of the modern extinction crisis.

As young boys, Trevor and Kyle Ritland were fascinated by the magnificent golden toad of Costa Rica, a brilliant species their biologist father showed them in his projector’s slide shows. Native to only one wind-battered ridgeline high on the continental divide above the cloud forests of Monteverde, thousands of golden toads would congregate for a few weeks each year in ephemeral pools among the twisted roots to mate, deposit their offspring, and retreat again beneath the earth. But from one year to the next, the toads disappeared without a trace; the last of them vanished more than thirty years ago. Since then, only rumors remain—alleged sightings by local residents, which beg the question: could the golden toad still be alive?

In The Golden Toad, Trevor and Kyle set off to investigate an environmental mystery with unexpected revelations, a story that speaks to our own collective and uncertain future. Guided by Costa Rican naturalists—including the last person to have seen the golden toad alive—Trevor searches for survivors while Kyle hunts the killer, and their paths lead them through an imperiled forest, a deadly pandemic, and a changing climate, finally intertwining at the site of the golden toad’s last emergence deep in Monteverde’s Bosque Eterno de Los Niños.

The toad’s demise becomes a haunting foretelling of approaching ecological crisis, but with a gold lining on the horizon. The Golden Toad changes the conversation around extinction, climate change, and conservation while exploring environmental grief, resurrection, and hope in a changing world.

Notă biografică

Trevor Ritland spent two years in the cloud forests of Costa Rica before returning to the US to complete graduate work in documentary studies and science communication. He is an adjunct instructor in the Creative Media & Film program at Northern Arizona University and is the documentarian of “El Dorado: The Search for the Golden Toad” along with other projects exploring imperiled species and environmental mysteries. Trevor lives with his wife Priscilla and their dog Indie in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Trevor and Kyle founded Adventure Term, Inc., a nonprofit teaching environmental storytelling through field expeditions. Beyond writing for publications like The Atlantic, BBC, and The Guardian, they have collaborated with Leonardo DiCaprio’s RE:WILD on the organization’s “Search for Lost Species” campaign.

Kyle Ritland earned his MFA in Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside while working as a freelance environmental journalist, chasing stories of island foxes, desert birds, and big cats. He lives at the edge of the woods in the American Northeast with his wife Alannah and their two cats, Hazel and Fiver. 

Recenzii

“A stunning and evocative ecological mystery that would not be out of place in the adventure fiction category. Engrossing from beginning to end.” 
—Jeff Vandermeer, bestselling author of Annihilation 

“The Golden Toad is storytelling at its best and an inspirational account of people who dedicated their lives to protecting the cloud forest. At times heartbreaking, other times joyful, the narrative encourages us to think about conservation, extinction, and the value of friends and family. The Ritland brothers have guaranteed that not only will the stories of the golden toads survive, but that these jewels of the forest will endure in our memories and in our hearts and will inspire us to respect both forest and frogs.”  
—Martha L. (Marty) Crump, author of Frog Day and editor of Lost Frogs & Hot Snakes 

“We live at a difficult moment in our planet's history; this book does a remarkably good job at dealing with the epic losses all around us and maintaining a sense of possibility. It is what nature writing needs to look like in our time.” 
—Bill McKibben, Cofounder of 350.org and author of Here Comes the Sun

“The Golden Toad is a riveting and dramatic mystery and adventure story! These two intrepid authors are masterful storytellers, and delightful guides to a rainforest paradise that still guards its secrets."
—Sy Montgomery, author of New York Times bestseller The Soul of an Octopus 

“A captivating story of adventure in the name of science. Follow these intrepid brothers through the jungle as they go on a journey of discovery—about themselves, and the forests and animals around them, and the fate of nature in our ever-changing world.”
—Steve Brusatte, Paleontologist and New York Times bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs 

“A gripping amphibian adventure set in one of the world’s wildest, most wondrous places. In the spirit of David Quammen and Elizabeth Kolbert, Trevor and Kyle Ritland delve deep into history, science, and the rainforest itself in pursuit of an ecological mystery—and the charismatic, possibly nonexistent species that possesses them.”   
—Ben Goldfarb, award-winning author of Crossings and Eager
 
“The Ritlands have crafted a remarkable story of mystery, discovery, and loss, using language both beautiful and lush. I absolutely loved it.” 
—Jonathan C. Slaght, author of Owls of the Eastern Ice 

“Compellingly told by brothers Trevor and Kyle Ritland, The Golden Toad is a story of extraordinary animals, ordinary heroes, and the planet they share.”  
—Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction

“Kyle and Trevor Ritland craft a spellbinding narrative that traverses the misty heights of Costa Rica’s cloud forests, and the shadowed depths of humankind’s impact on the natural world. Their journey, interwoven with that of the golden toad, is one of reckoning, longing, and ultimately, reconciliation. With prose that is both urgent and lyrical, they deliver a story as vibrant as the creature it seeks to illuminate. The Golden Toad is a gripping exploration of loss and hope. It’s a poignant reminder of the fragile wonders we stand to lose—and the resilience needed to fight for them.” 
—Chris Kalman, author of Damned if You Don't

"The Ritlands carry the reader on a journey filled with grace, dripping moss, and all the dark, lonely beauty of the Costa Rican mountaintop rainforest. They make loss tangible, while keeping a flicker of hope alive through those vested in conservation and love for what exists." 
—Emily Monosson, author of Blight: Fungi and the Coming Pandemic

“Part memoir, part detective story, a beautifully written account of the grief of species loss, both personal and planetary, that also contains a flickering candle of hope. A reminder of how much humans still have to learn about the mysteries and miracles of the natural world.” 
—Ash Davidson, author of Damnation Spring