In the early 1990s, in a small back room of London’s Zoological Society, change was afoot. An ecologist named Georgina Mace had invited a group of her colleagues, from prolific and influential conservation scientists to young researchers just getting started in the field, to collaborate on a project. That was Mace’s style; she valued collaboration across disciplines and academic hierarchies, and believed in mentoring the next generation of researchers by finding them room at the table beside giants of their field. With the age of the internet still on the…
