Brandon Keim

Brandon Keim is a freelance journalist specializing in animals, nature and science. He is the author of The Eye of the Sandpiper: Stories From the Living World and National Geographic Inside Animal Minds: What They Think, Feel, And Know.
Bringing effective altruism to conservation

How many animal lives are impacted by restoring a prairie ecosystem or a protecting a swamp? That's the sort of number so-called effective altruists look for when deciding where to put their philanthropic funds, and it represents both a challenge and an opportunity for conservation.