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A World Without Birds

The book explores what our planet could look like without them, and why their survival matters so deeply to our own.

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Hachette
Year
2025
Category
Book
Role
Illustration
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How to Save Our Planet, One Bird at a Time

Look out the window and chances are you'll spot a bird gliding across the sky or resting in the branches of a nearby tree. Every year, millions of people find joy in watching birds, creatures that bring beauty, pollination, pest control, balance to ecosystems, and deep cultural meaning to human life.

The Open Ocean chapter spread, sea birds and aquatic species above and below the water line.
Carrion Cleaners spread, an Andean flamingo wading in a salt lake.

Every spread imagines a world where a different group of birds has vanished, asking what we would lose, and what we still have time to protect.

But across the world, birds are disappearing at alarming rates. Climate change, habitat destruction, pollution, and invasive species are pushing countless avian populations toward collapse.

What can we do?, a group of children rallying to protect birds.
Climate change and the extinction of the Poʻouli, spread on tropical forests.

Organized by ecosystem, each chapter introduces the birds that inhabit a particular environment, alongside real stories of extinction, survival, and recovery. Through both loss and hope, the book examines the fragile relationship between humans, wildlife, and the natural world. Richly illustrated throughout, with detailed bird guides and vibrant environmental scenes, World Without Birds is a visual journey into one of the most urgent and emotional conservation stories of our time.

Feral cats and the threat to native wildlife, desert chapter spread.
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