About the Author

Jeff Corwin is the host of a variety of popular television shows, including Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin Experience, Corwin's Quest, Spring Watch, and King of the Jungle; Disney's Going Wild with Jeff Corwin; Investigation Earth with the Discovery Networks; NBC's Jeff Corwin Unleashed, which won an Emmy for an Outstanding Host; and the Travel Channel's Into Alaska and Into the American West. He also co-created and cohosted CNN's Planet in Peril with Anderson Cooper in 2007. In the fall of 2008, Jeff Corwin was named Ambassador of Climate Change for one of the nation's leading conservation organization, Defenders of Wildlife. When not traveling the world, Jeff can be found at his home off the coast of Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and two daughters.