“In my experience, only a few people have really earned the right to ask us to hope. As this magnificent volume makes clear, Kinari Webb is the exception.”

—Bill McKibben, Author, educator, environmentalist, and Co-founder of 350.org

“In The Guardian of the Trees Kinari Webb tells the story of how she fell in love with a rainforest in Indonesia and how she worked to save it by listening to and involving the local people and improving their lives by providing medical facilities. People, animals and the environment – all are interconnected. Her courage and perseverance through a series of setbacks and a life-threatening encounter with a deadly jellyfish fill one with admiration. A wonderful book.”

—Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & U.N. Messenger of Peace

“With Borneo as backdrop as well as foreground, Kinari Webb compellingly shows us how public health and planetary health are one and the same.”

—Christiana Figueres, co-author of The Future We Choose, architect of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and co-founder of Global Optimism

"This book is a wonder. An astonishing story, a page-turner, beautifully written, that will transport you deep into the rainforest and out again, transformed. Through her own remarkable journey, Kinari Webb has found a brilliant way to unite the healing of people and planet, to save both human lives and wild nature. So abundant is her passion and commitment that one can't help but emerge from her riveting story deeply affected, inspired, and flooded with hope.”

—Jennifer Ackerman, New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Birds Way

“Guardians of the Trees is a completely captivating story rich with lessons about the potential for personal and planetary transformation. Kinari Webb brings us along on her inspiring journey and we emerge infused with hard won and realistic hope for the entwined futures of humans, forests and the world we inhabit together.”

—David Grinspoon, author of Earth in Human Hands

“Reading Guardians of the Trees left me, at turns, stunned and elated. At last, a vision for addressing climate change that rests not on the promise of more technology, but a return to the most basic tool: listening to the communities that know the world's forests best.”

—Katherine Standefer, author of LIGHTNING FLOWERS