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While the pandemic has disrupted people's lives in just about every way imaginable over the past year, it has also impacted our environment and wildlife in ways great and small.
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From skies getting clearer during the heights of the global shutdown, to wildlife from monkeys to mountain lions suddenly free to roam through towns with people stuck inside, nature has experienced a year like no other in recent memory. And the sources of both COVID-19 and its vaccine both stem from our relationship with wildlife - with New Jersey playing an irreplaceable role in vaccine testing. Join naturalist David Wheeler on a journey across a natural world changed overnight by COVID-19, with a special focus on wildlife and our renewed relationship to it here in New Jersey and beyond.
David Wheeler has served as the Executive Director of the nonprofit Conserve Wildlife Foundation, which works to protect rare wildlife in New Jersey and beyond, since 2012. He taught Environmental Communication at Rutgers University's School of Environmental and Biological Sciences for eight years. Mr. Wheeler regularly hosts wildlife videos and podcasts, and has written for the Star Ledger, E the Environmental Magazine, NJEA Review, and other media. He wrote the 2011 book "Wild New Jersey: Nature Adventures in the Garden State", and wrote the foreword to the 2014 Jim Wright's book, "Bald Eagles in the Meadowlands and Beyond." Mr. Wheeler has spoken about wildlife and environmental issues on Fox 5 News with Ernie Anastos, NBC 10 @Issue Philadelphia, PBS Peril and Promise, and Canadian Public Radio. He earned his M.B.A. from New York University's Stern School of Business and his B.A. from American University in Washington DC, and was a 2017 Fellow with Lead New Jersey.
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