Rewilding the world dispatches from the conservation revolution

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A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the worlds most endangered species and landscapesthe last best hope for preserving our natural home scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers, birds, and. Caroline fraser, has written the first definitive account of a visionary campaign to confront ecological crises, entitled rewilding the world, dispatches from. Rewilding projects may require ecological restoration or wilderness engineering, particularly to restore connectivity between fragmented protected areas, and. Living and dying in the christian science church, metropolitan books, 1999. Dispatches from the conservation revolution, you said, rewilding, which involves applying conservation and ecological restoration work to a scale previously unimagined is now the primary method for designing, protecting and restoring protected areas. Tea biscuit fiction, behind the nba, the conservation. Nature as it was, as it is, as it could be, houghton mifflin harcourt. Shes gone all over the world to bring us news from the front lines, and her account is one of essential hope. The first chapter provides a crash course in the concept of keystone species and the need for large, interconnected areas with buffer zones to preserve these species which are frequently large carnivores that require extensive ranges see william stolzenburgs where the wild things were for an. Even more daunting than the effects of pollution and climate change is the accelerating loss of. She has written widely about animal rights, natural history, and the environment, and. Dispatches from the conservation revolution caroline.

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Caroline frasers rewilding the world picks up where conservationoriented books leave off. Formerly on the editorial staff of the new yorker, she is the author of two nonfiction books, gods perfect child. Rewilding conservation biology wikipedia republished. A library journal best scitech book of the yearif environmental destruction continues at its current rate, a third of all plants and animals could disappear by 2050along with earths lifesupport ecosystems, which provide food, water, medicine, and natural defenses against climate change. We need a deoccupy revolution, giving space to wilderness. Rewilding the world offers hope for a richer, wilder future.

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