Adam Welz is an author, photographer and conservationist.

Adam’s work focuses on nature conservation, climate breakdown and other environmental issues. He’s an old-school naturalist and inveterate birder who authored The End of Eden: Wild Nature in the Age of Climate Breakdown (Bloomsbury 2023), a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, a New Yorker Book of the Year, and a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Year (American Library Association).

His journalism and photography appear in international publications such as Yale Environment 360, The Guardian and The Atlantic. He speaks and teaches at universities in South Africa, the United States and Europe. He’s currently figuring out how to propagate local fynbos plants and starting a hyper-local conservation project around his home in Cape Town while working on his next book projects.