Nicholas Wilkinson

Conservation biologist Nicholas Wilkinson begins to tell the story of the dove, 'Ectopistes migratorius', and is overwhelmed by the number of wings around him and the difficulty of accounting for one of the most notorious extinctions ever to occur on the planet: the destruction of the passenger pigeon.

Biologist Nicholas Wilkinson had never seen a living saola. And then the dilemma about saving this endangered antelope from extinction came into his dreams.