Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery: The Illustrated Edition

by Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe, 2022. Hardcover, 224 pages. 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 whic