Restoring the Wild
- Author Roy Dennis
- Narrator Roger Davis
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Publish Date 15 April 2021
- Run Time 14 hours and 24 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Animal life stories, Biodiversity, Biography and non-fiction prose, Conservation of the environment, Memoirs, The environment, Wildlife: birds and birdwatching: general interest, Zoology and animal sciences.
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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.
Critics Review
'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
'Now 81, Dennis is possibly the UK's most senior and influential conservationist you may never have heard of ... Restoring the Wild covers Dennis's career, which he built on the profound knowledge of ecology and species interaction. It is a book based on his diaries of 60 years, which reveal the sheer number of reports, town hall lectures, licences, risk assessments, acronyms, obstacles and setbacks before the excitement comes ... exhilarating' Kathleen Jamie, New Statesman
'If you want to find out how to help wildlife survive, thrive, and expand their own horizons, Roy Dennis is the very man: according to the RSPB, no-one else has done more for nature conservation in Scotland in the last 100 years. Informed by sixty years of fieldwork, his new book is a comprehensive guide to how well - or poorly - we are placed to rewild our skies, woods and waterways' David Robinson, Books from Scotland
'Roy's passion and love of wildlife is visible in every crevice of the book ... a tantalising and inspiring read' The Scottish Field
'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
'A leading figure in UK reintroductions, Roy explains the process and necessity of bringing back our extinct apex predators' Nature's Home
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