Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways - Couverture rigide

Gow, Derek

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ISBN 10 : 1603589961 ISBN 13 : 9781603589963

Editeur : Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2020

Synopsis

The radical rewilder The Times

As seen on BBC One's ‘The One Show’

This authentic, impassioned manifesto-cum-memoir will hopefully have a major impact on what is likely to be a long-running controversy. The Spectator

Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside. the Guardian

Gow has a fire in his belly. We need more like him. BBC Wildlife Magazine

Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow s inspirational and often riotously funny first-hand account of how the movement to rewild beavers into the British landscape has become the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s in the face of outright opposition from government, landowning elites and even some conservation professionals Gow has imported, quarantined and assisted the reestablishment of beavers in waterways across England and Scotland. 

Alongside stories detailing the ups and downs of rewilding beavers, Bringing Back the Beaver makes a passionate case as to why the return of one of nature s great problem solvers will be critical as part of a sustainable fix for the UK s growing flooding problems, whilst ensuring the creation of essential landscapes that enable the broadest spectrum of Britain s wildlife to thrive.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

<p>Derek Gow is a farmer and nature conservationist. Born in Dundee in 1965, he left school when he was 17 and worked in agriculture for five years. Inspired by the writing of Gerald Durrell, all of whose books he has read - thoroughly - he jumped at the chance to manage a European wildlife park in central Scotland in the late 1990s before moving on to develop two nature centres in England. He now lives with his children, Maysie and Kyle, on a 300-acre farm on the Devon/Cornwall border which he is in the process of rewilding. Derek has played a significant role in the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver, the water vole and the white stork in England. He is currently working on a reintroduction project for the wildcat. He was also featured in Granta Magazine.</p>

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1603589961
• ISBN 13: 9781603589963
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible