![]() ![]() The last time I saw him, it was at his house in upstate New York. He even got me to eat a goat burger once. We had quite a few lovely meals together, many of them involving goat meat (this brought on by me teasing him about all the remote places he'd been to and meals he'd eaten). Time Magazine once referred to him as "the Indiana Jones of wildlife conservation," and National Geographic called him, “a master problem solver who understood the interrelatedness of wildlife, habitat, and humans”. If tigers and other big cats do not go extinct in our lifetime, it will be a direct result of Alan's actions and life work. I'd get there before the zoo opened, and we’d drink coffee and work out the story beats (was always struck by the stillness of the zoo when you took away all the crowds.) We hit it off in our first meeting, and he told me about the cancer that was then lying dormant in his body, and which finally took his life this past Sunday.Īlan was a hero who inspired so many people. ![]() While working on the story, I would meet Alan at 7AM at the Bronx Zoo, where he ran their Wildlife Conservation Society (he eventually co-founded the conservation group Panthera). ![]() His first story, Man and Beast, about him overcoming a debilitating stutter to become a voice and champion for animals, is a beloved classic which was eventually turned into a children's book and short film. We are heartbroken to hear of the death of beloved Moth storyteller Alan Rabinowitz. ![]()
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