Jonathan C. Slaght
Jonathan C. Slaght, PhD, is the Regional Director of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Temperate Asia Program, where he oversees WCS programs in China, Mongolia, and Afghanistan, and projects in Russia and Central Asia. His memoir, "Owls of the Eastern Ice," was longlisted for a 2020 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and won the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award in 2021. Slaght's "Tigers Between Empires" is slated for release from FSG on 04 November, 2025. His other writings have been featured in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Audubon Magazine, among others.
2 Books Written
Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World's Largest Owl
by Jonathan C. Slaght
Rating: 4.2 ⭐
A field scientist and conservationist tracks the elusive Blakiston's Fish Owl in the forbidding reaches of eastern Russia.I saw my first Blakiston’s fish owl in the Russian province of Primorye, a coastal talon of land hooking south into the belly of Northeast Asia . . . No scientist had seen a Blakiston’s fish owl so far south in a hundred years . . . When he was ju
Tigers Between Empires: The Improbable Return of Great Cats to the Forests of Russia and China
by Jonathan C. Slaght
Rating: 4.6 ⭐
The thrilling saga of the great Amur tiger and the scientists who came together, across the world, to save it. The forests of Northeast Asia are home to a marvelous range of animals—fish owls and brown bears, musk deer and moose, wolves and raccoon dogs, and leopards and tigers. But in the final years of the Cold War, only a few hundred tigers stepped quietly through the snow o