Nalini Nadkarni

Nalini Nadkarni, also known as the “Queen of the Forest Canopy”, is a celebrated ecologist who pioneered the use of mountain-climbing equipment to study the rainforest canopies of Costa Rica in the 1980s. In 2019, Mattel introduced a Barbie doll based on Nadkarni! Nadkarni frequently goes into prisons to teach the inmates about trees.

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Books by Nalini Nadkarni
Book cover: "The Tree of Life" with animals in a tree, including squirrels and birds. Fox sits below. Illustrated by Kendra Binney.
The Tree of Life
A lift-the-flap book about the animals, plants, and fungi that live in trees.

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