**How rewilding has transformed the conservation movement, combining
radical scientific insights with practical innovations.
**
Progressive scientists and conservation professionals are pursuing a
radical new approach to restoring ecosystems: rewilding. By recovering
the ripple effect generated by the interactions among plant and animal
species and natural disturbances, rewilding seeks to repair ecosystems
by removing them from human engineering and reassembling guilds of
megafauna from a mix of surviving wild and feral species and
de-domesticated breeds, including elk, bison, and feral horses. Written
by two leaders in the field, this book offers an abundantly illustrated
guide to the science of rewilding. It shows in fascinating detail the
ways in which ecologists are reassembling ecosystems that allow natural
interactions rather than human interventions to steer their
environmental trajectories.
Rewilding looks into a past in which industrialization and
globalization downgraded grasslands, describes current projects designed
to recover self-willed ecosystems, and envisions the future with ten
predictions for a rewilded planet. It shows how rewilding is shaking up
conservation science and policy, bringing new hope and renewed purpose
to efforts to revive essential ecological processes. Color illustrations
capture moments of beauty in nature and offer enlightening infographics
and visualizations.
