Documenting the "Smaller Majority" of Life on Earth Story aired: Friday, May 12, 2006
Piotr Naskrecki has been documenting the 90-plus percent of the world's species that are smaller than a human fingernail. He shares his finds in a spectacular new book of over 400 photographs of insects, reptiles, and amphibians, or what he calls, "The Smaller Majority."
Naskrecki is a true Indiana Jones, having braved the jungles of Costa Rica and the African desert. He has suffered disease and hair-raising escapes, all in search of bugs -- beautiful, astonishingly resilient bugs. Nascrecki laments, "We now estimate that about 1,000 species of small animals permanently go extinct every year."
Guests:
Piotr Naskrecki, director of the Invertebrate Diversity Initiative
