Hilary Feldman is a freelance writer based in Vancouver, B.C. She writes for parenting, popular science, and environmental publications - combining her interests in protecting the world's diversity for future generations. She has degrees in oceanography and zoology. She is an adept baker, a novice seamstress, and hopes to master knitting someday. She also acknowledges her distant hunter-gatherer past, as she is unable to resist picking wild berries, apples, and other harvestable opportunities.