Last September, while Jane was in Washington, DC as part of her book tour to promote Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink she stole a few minutes from her busy schedule to visit with Chris Lucash, a red wolf biologist who is featured in the book.

Chris is part of the Red Wolf Recovery Project which has helped increase the numbers of wild-born red wolves in the United States. As Jane writes, the project has been so successful that it won America's highest conservation honor in 2007, the North American Conservation Award from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).

 Photo by Christin Jones