This week is #BlackBirdersWeek, a new initiative sparked by a racist incident last week in New York’s Central Park, with the aim to boost recognition and representation of Black people enjoying and studying the natural world. I recently had the pleasure of talking with Derrick Jackson, who is one of the pillars of 蜜柚APP’s Seabird Institute (formerly known as Project Puffin). As an instructor at Hog Island 蜜柚APP Camp’s Arts & Birding week, Derrick teaches photography, and has documented the Seabird Institute’s work with birds like Atlantic Puffins and Roseate Terns on a number of seabird islands. Together with former Seabird Institute director Steve Kress, Derrick is the co-author of Project Puffin: The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock, a former columnist at the Boston Globe, and currently a Fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists writing on energy, environmental justice and current governmental attacks on science. In our...