Rewilding the World Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution

Name: Rewilding the World Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution
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ISBN: 9780312655419

ISBN-10: 031265541X

ISBN-13: 9780312655419

Edition: 2011

Authors: Caroline Fraser

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A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the worldrs"s most endangered species and landscapes'”the last best hope for preserving our natural homeScientists 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 earthrs"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…

Book details

List price: $31.25
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 11/23/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.69" wide x 7.96" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Introduction: The Predicta Moth



Cores, Corridors, and Carnivores



Rewilding North America


Pluie


The Trouble with Islands


Rewilding in the Real World


"A Corridor in People's Minds"



The Problem With Predators


The Green Fire


The Problem with Predators


"Buy More Cats"



Corridors In Central and South America


Categories of Concern


The Path of the Panther


Fragments of Brazil



Reconnecting The Old World


The European Green Belt


A Problem Bear


The Rebirth of the Neusiedler See


Reclaiming Romania


The Accidental Corridor



An Africa Without Fences



Peace Parks and Paper Parks


Corridors with Leverage


From Penitent Butchers to Paper Parks


"An Africa without Fences"



The Great Limpopo


The Elephant Problem


The People Problem


The Giriyondo Gate


The View from Cape Town



The Lubombo Transfrontier


Tembe


Breakthrough at Ndumo



Looking For Kaza


"It Looks Great on Paper"


Night Shift to Namibia


The Demon Croc


"The Elephants Are Going Home"



Community Conservation: "Very Tricky"



The Conservancy Movement


Namibia's Experiment


Kenya and "the Government's Cattle"


The Cattle Ranch That Became a Conservancy


In the Northern Rangelands


Drought



The Tiger Moving Game


Royal Rhinos and Community Forests


The People's War


Goats, Guns, People


Looking for Tigers at Tiger Tops


The Cautionary Tale of Corcovado



"Sustainable Conservation"



Resurrection Ecology


From Curtis Prairie to Fresh Kills


Trade-Offs


Shifting Baselines and Pleistocene Rewilding



Costa Rica's Thousand-Year Vision


Large-Scale and Long-Term


The Parataxonomists



Regrowing Australia


Extreme Extinction


A Million Acres a Year


The Puzzle


Living in the Link


Conclusion: Only Connect


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index