by Caroline Fraser (Author)
Scientists worldwide are warning of the looming extinction of thousands of species, from tigers and polar bears to rare flowers, birds, and insects. If the destruction continues, a third of all plants and animals could disappear by 2050 - and with them earth's life-support ecosystems that provide our food, water, medicine, and natural defenses against climate change. Now Caroline Fraser offers the first definitive account of a visionary campaign to confront this crisis: rewilding. Breathtaking in scope and ambition, Rewilding aims to save species by restoring habitats, reviving migration corridors, and brokering peace between people and predators. Traveling with wildlife biologists and conservationists, Fraser reports on the vast projects that are turning Europe's former Iron Curtain into a greenbelt, creating trans-frontier Peace Parks to renew elephant routes throughout Africa, and linking protected areas from the Yukon to Mexico and beyond. An inspiring story of scientific discovery and grassroots action, Rewilding The World offers hope for a richer, wilder future.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company Inc
Published: 08 Feb 2010
ISBN 10: 0805078266
ISBN 13: 9780805078268
Makes a convincing case that [rewilding] represents the only realistic strategy for conserving our rapidly diminishing wildlife. -- Kirkus Her story of grassroots activism paired with the scientific is environmentally inspirational. -- Publishers Weekly Since I spend much of my time trying to head off environmental calamity, this fascinating and lyrical book came as a particularly welcome gift. It shows how scientists and activists are using imagination and research to build a realistic strategy for securing our green and noble heritage for the future. It will help you think big, which is the only way to think about these questions.
--Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth and The End of Nature
A riveting journal of the astonishing bio-impoverishment of our planet.
--Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., President of Waterkeeper Alliance and author of Crimes Against Nature Caroline Fraser's Rewilding the World is an exciting and wise exploration of a revolution that's reshaping the conservation movement. She's gone all over the world to bring us news from the front lines, and her account is one of essential hope: though it's no guarantee that we can save nature from collapse, she shows that we have a fighting chance. Fraser's account stirred me.
--Richard Preston, author of The Wild Trees and The Hot Zone
Give them room to roam! Caroline Fraser's smart, passionate manifesto offers hope to the wild world. In an age of overwhelming loss, she shows us how to gain: more bears, more wolves, more biodiversity, more thriving ecosystems, more life. This is an important book about the cutting edge of conservation and how it might save our continent and our selves.
--Bruce Barcott, author of The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw
Rewilding is less a conservationist's utopian vision than a roadmap for the way we must learn to live on earth. As Caroline Fraser carefully explains, humans will survive only in a world as wild as the one that created us. If you want to live, read this book. --Doug Peacock, author of The Essential Grizzly and Walking It Off
Caroline Fraser's first book, God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church, was selected as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and Outside magazine, among others. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.