Melanie Challenger is a writer, researcher and broadcaster on environmental history and philosophy of science, Deputy Co-Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and a Vice President of the RSPCA, UK. She wrote How to Be Animal: What it Means to Be Human (2021). Her first non-fiction book On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature was published in 2011. It was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best non-fiction books of 2012 and received the Santa Barbara Library’s Green Award for environmental writing. She is a member of CEP, a new global collective of environmental philosophers and a founding member of the Animals in the Room project, involved in devising new models for representing the interests of non-human animals in decisions critical to their lives. Source: Wikipedia (en)