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Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man''s Quest to Rewild Britain''s Waterways

English

By (author): Derek Gow

Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside. Guardian

This authentic, impassioned manifesto-cum-memoir will hopefully have a major impact on what is likely to be a long-running controversy. The Spectator

Gow has a fire in his belly. We need more like him. BBC Wildlife Magazine

A Waterstones Best Nature Writing Book of 2020

Bringing Back the Beaver is a hilarious, eccentric and magnificent account of a struggle . . . to reintroduce a species crucial to the health of our ecosystems. George Monbiot

Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gows inspirational and often riotously funny first-hand account of how the movement to rewild beavers into the British landscape became the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s in the face of outright opposition from government, landowning elites and even some conservation professionals Gow has imported, quarantined and assisted the reestablishment of beavers in waterways across England and Scotland.

With a foreword by bestselling author of Wilding, Isabella Tree, Bringing Back the Beaver makes a passionate case as to why the return of one of natures great problem solvers will be critical as part of a sustainable fix for the UKs growing flooding problems, whilst ensuring the creation of essential landscapes that enable the broadest spectrum of Britains wildlife to thrive. 

It is wonderful to see that beavers are now officially back on the list of native species, having been absent for so long . . . far too long! Dame Judi Dench

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Product Details
  • Weight: 567g
  • Dimensions: 127 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jan 2022
  • Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781645021230

About Derek Gow

Derek Gow is a farmer nature conservationist and the author of Bringing Back the Beaver and Birds Beasts and Bedlam. Born in Dundee he left school when he was 17 and worked in agriculture for five years. Inspired by the writing of Gerald Durrell he jumped at the chance to manage a European wildlife park in central Scotland in the late 1990s before moving on to develop two nature centres in England. He now lives with his children Maysie and Kyle on a 300-acre farm on the Devon/Cornwall border which he is in the process of rewilding. Derek has played a significant role in the reintroduction of the Eurasian beaver the water vole and the white stork in England. He is currently working on a reintroduction project for the wildcat.

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