Mike Shanahan

Mike Shanahan is a freelance writer and illustrator with a doctorate in rainforest ecology. He has lived in a national park in Borneo, bred endangered penguins, investigated illegal bear farms and produced award-winning journalism. His writing includes work published by The Economist, Nature, New Scientist, BBC Earth, Scientific American and Newsweek, and chapters of Dry: Life without Water, Climate Change and the Media and Culture and Climate Change: Narratives. He maintains a blog called...See more

Mike Shanahan is a freelance writer and illustrator with a doctorate in rainforest ecology. He has lived in a national park in Borneo, bred endangered penguins, investigated illegal bear farms and produced award-winning journalism. His writing includes work published by The Economist, Nature, New Scientist, BBC Earth, Scientific American and Newsweek, and chapters of Dry: Life without Water, Climate Change and the Media and Culture and Climate Change: Narratives. He maintains a blog called Under the Banyan. He lives in Folkestone See less