Future Wild
Future Wild
From the popular ecology writer comes an inspiring and practical call to restore nature.
9781835940013 | Paperback | 276 pp | Publishing: 4th October 2024
Ireland has little left of its original natural habitats. Many species, like the curlew, are under pressure due to intensive practices such as farming, forestry and fisheries and some are threatened with extinction. But given a little help from us, nature has the innate capacity to restore itself.
Nature restoration is the positive management of the environment for the benefit of wildlife and people. It looks to the future, by steering natural habitats and wildlife in a better and more sustainable direction.
In Future Wild: Nature Restoration in Ireland, Richard Nairn explores numerous active restoration projects around Ireland which show how natural habitats and native species can be restored sustainably for the benefit of everyone. From individual landowners and voluntary organisations to state bodies such as Bord na Móna, he meets the people who are dedicated to nature restoration.
By turns shocking, hopeful and finally positive, Future Wild shows that the damage we have done to nature can also be undone by us, and that, with nature restoration, we can create a richer and more diverse environment for generations to come.
““Beautiful. Lulls you in, nourishes your soul and gently but unequivocally delivers an urgent message straight to the heart, like a seanchaí of old.””
““Richard Nairn has written a book that makes you smarter with every page you turn. Nairn has scientific and historic perspective, philosophical insight, and he is politically sharp. He was the only man for this job. The job? To find a path through the forest of vested interests and competing claims on the land. To arrive at a blueprint for how farm and nature can coexist. He is no dewy-eyed, nostalgia merchant. He knows that there are too many legitimate claims on land to ever return substantial parts of Ireland to wilderness. But he is surgical and dogged in pursuing ways to create space for nature to live alongside people. Not unlike its author, Future Wild is charming and informative and wise.””
