Sharon Guynup, Editor of the State of the Wild series, is a science/environmental writer and editor, who has written for many magazines and newspapers. She was also the special issues editor for Scientific American's issue "the Hidden Mind," published in 2002.
In wild places where nature thrives, humanity prospers; our well-being is inextricably linked with that of the planet's web of life. In fact, one could argue that the state of the world can be measured by the state of the wild.
But how do we gauge the state of earth's wildlife, wildlands, and oceans?