Sharon’s first book, State of the Wild 2006: A Global Portrait of Wildlife, Wildlands and Oceans, published by Island Press, examined many of today’s most pressing conservation issues: habitat loss, climate change, the bushmeat trade, hunting for traditional Asian medicine, the need for marine protected areas, the rise in diseases that jump between animals and humans, and more.

Contributors include eminent wildlife biologists and essayists: George Schaller, Alan Rabinowitz, Tom Lovejoy, Sylvia Earle, Bill McKibben, Callum Roberts, Wallace “J” Nichols, Rick Bass and others.

State of the Wild  was named one of

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“The value of this overstuffed volume (the premier edition of this series) is twofold: One, it provides a no-bullshit roundup and analysis of the year’s

Sharon’s next, yet-unnamed book is due out in spring 2011 from National Geographic Books.

major environmental stories--a regular physical for the planet. And two, it gives experts like Carl Safina and essayists like Rick Bass and Ted Kerasote ample room to explain why it all so desperately matters.”

           See the Island Press catalog description here.

Sharon’s chapter, “Exploring Myanmar’s Forbidden Wilderness” profiles National Geographic photographer Steve Winter’s expedition beyond the last village through Myanmar’s icy northernmost peaks. Published by Lyon’s Press, 2007.