num_pages: 224
description: This is a lovely little book that could and should have a big impact. ..Let's all get rebugging right away! Hugh Fearnley-WhittingstallMeet the intelligent insects marvellous minibeasts and inspirational invertebrates that help shape our planet - and discover how you can help them help us by rebugging your attitude today!Remember when there were bugs on your windscreen? Ever wonder where they went? We need to act now if we are to help them survive. Chris Packham Isabella Tree and George Monbiot are but a few voices championing the rewilding of our world. In Rebugging the Planet Vicki Hird adds her voice to this chorus explaining how our planet is headed towards 'insectageddon' with a rate of insect extinction eight times faster than that of mammals or birds. Rebugging the Planet gives us crucial information to help all those essential creepy-crawlies flourish once more.Hird passionately demonstrates how insects and invertebrates are the cornerstone of our global ecosystem. They pollinate plants feed birds support and defend our food crops and clean our water systems. They are also beautiful inventive and economically invaluable - bees for example contribute more to the UK economy than the Queen!Rebugging the Planet shows us small changes we can make to have a big impact on our littlest allies:Learn how to rebug parks schools pavements verges and other green spaces.Leave your garden to grow a little wild and plant weedkiller-free wildlife-friendly plants.Take your kids on a minibeast treasure hunt and learn how to build bug palaces.Make bug-friendly choices with your food and support good farming practices. Begin to understand how reducing inequality and poverty will help nature and wildlife too - it's all connected.So do your part and start rebugging today! The bees ants earthworms butterflies beetles grasshoppers ladybirds snails and slugs will thank you - and our planet will thank you too.
language: English
title: Rebugging the Planet: The Remarkable Things that Insects (and Other Invertebrates) Do – And Why We Need to Love Them More
publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing