I liked the first half of the book better than the second half. She repeats herself repetitively and, as a nattering nabob of negativism, I found her optimism about the efficaciousness of eco-tourism as a solution to environmental devastation somewhat annoying. I also tend to have a certain amount of difficulty giving credit to people for caring about the environment if they are frequent fliers. Yeah yeah yeah, I get it. To study forests, you need to be able to go to where there still are some and that generally involves getting on a plane, but still…