Leah Shaffer
Leah Shaffer is a freelance science writer based in St. Louis. Her stories has appeared in Scholastic Instructor magazine, Science, Discover, Wired and the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Leah Shaffer is a freelance science writer based in St. Louis. Her stories has appeared in Scholastic Instructor magazine, Science, Discover, Wired and the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
By Leah Shaffer, Ensia
But there’s another story that the American burying beetle is a part of. It’s the less-told but equally important story of bringing uncharismatic minifauna back from the brink through cooperation among sometimes-opposing groups: private landowners, public officials and conservation activists.