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Restoring the Wild
- Sixty Years of Rewilding Our Skies, Woods and Waterways
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
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Restoring the Wild
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Publisher's Summary
The RSPB’s Book of the Season.
The distinctive white-tailed sea eagle was driven to extinction in Britain more than 200 years ago, but this immense predator is making a return to our skies, thanks to Roy Dennis, an ornithologist, conservationist and arguably the driving force behind the UK’s reintroduction agenda.
Roy was instrumental in returning the Osprey, red kite and golden eagle to the British Isles, but the road to reintroduction isn’t an easy one. In what will surely be the seminal book on British reintroductions, Roy details the painstaking process of returning the Goldeneye to Scotland, one duckling at a time, the die-hard determination needed to make a dazzling success of the red kite reintroduction and the leap of faith we will all need to make to accept sharing our forests and skies with large carnivores again. He also illustrates all that we have to gain by restoring our ecosystems to balance.
Filled with a lifetime’s worth of stories from the front lines of conservation, Reintroduction offers an eye-opening insight into the complexities of reintroducing extinct animals to Britain. It’s also an intimate portrait of these apex predators and a reminder of why we need them.
What the critics say
"A wonderful book, steeped in knowledge and experience of nature and of the more practical ends of nature conservation.... No one else could write this book from personal experience – it’s a treat.... A joy to read, and gives plenty of information but also food for thought." (Mark Avery)
"Dennis is the most significant conservationist you’ve probably never heard of, and possessed of a radicalism that would startle the most outspoken young environmentalist.... Dennis’s vision of how to halt the extinction crisis and restore lost habitats and species in Britain deserves attention because it is rooted in 60 years of pioneering conservation action.... Like Dennis, the book is modest, deeply informative and profoundly hopeful, in that it shows a new generation how to bring back lost species." (Patrick Barkham, Guardian)
"Roy’s passion and love of wildlife is visible in every crevice of the book...a tantalising and inspiring read." (The Scottish Field)