Photos by amivitale | Four years ago, Sudan, the last living northern white rhino male passed away. At 45, Sudan was old for his species. He'd lived a long life and found stardom as the “most eligible bachelor in the world.” In his final moments, there was only silence, except for drops of rain and the muffled tears of the people who loved and protected him. I think back often on this moment and it's the silence I remember most—a haunting silence that seemed to foreshadow what a world without wildlife would be like. Without these creatures, we suffer more than the loss of an ecosystem. We suffer a loss of imagination, a loss of wonder, a loss of possibilities. Figuring out how to create a sustainable and just human society that doesn’t destroy the natural world is our single most important challenge. Hope always remains. What’s going to save us all is to get beyond our routine ways of thinking; wonder is what allows us to reimagine our future together. Wonder allows us to believe tha...