Let’s start the week off slowly, shall we? We spent some of the evening last night pouring over a recent New Yorker and thought we’d bring you one or two of the more prescient pieces. To begin, Jared Diamond’s Tigerland - a first-hand look at one of the last vestiges of the Royal Bengal tiger, the the Sundarbans, which also just happens to encompasses the largest single mangrove ecosystem in the world.

As they say, “If the Sundarbans goes under, the tiger episode on earth is over.” And that’s what makes this such a fascinating read.