num_pages: 416
description: A gripping account of the environmental crusade to save the worlds most endangered species and landscapesthe 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 2050and with them earths 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 save species by restoring habitats reviving migration corridors and brokering peace between people and predators. Traveling with wildlife biologists and conservationists Fraser reports on the vast projects that are turning Europes former Iron Curtain into a greenbelt creating trans-frontier Peace Parks to renew elephant routes throughout Africa and linking protected areas from the Yukon to Mexico and beyond. An inspiring story of scientific discovery and grassroots action Rewilding the World offers hope for a richer wilder future.
language: English
title: Rewilding the World: Dispatches from the Conservation Revolution
publisher: Metropolitan Books