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Cornerstones
- Wild Forces That Can Change Our World
- Narrated by: Joshua Picton
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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Cornerstones
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Publisher's Summary
FINALIST IN THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2022/2023 – WRITTEN BY THE WAINWRIGHT-CONSERVATION-PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF REBIRDING.
Transform your understanding of the natural world forever and discover the wild forces that once supported Britain’s extraordinary natural riches, and could again.
Our precious archipelago is ravaged by climate change, bereft of natural ecosystems and lies at the mercy of global warming, flooding, drought and catastrophic biodiversity loss. But could restoring species that once helped protect our islands help turn this crisis around?
From familiar yet imperilled honeybees and ancient oak woods to returning natives like beavers and boars, Britain’s cornerstone species may hold the key to recovering our biodiversity on land and in our seas.
In Cornerstones, we discover how beavers craft wetlands, save fish, encourage otters, and prevent rivers from flooding. We learn how ‘disruptive’ boars are seasoned butterfly conservationists, why whales are crucial for restoring seabird cities and how wolves and lynx could save our trees, help sequester carbon and protect our most threatened birds.
Benedict Macdonald transforms our understanding of the natural world forever, revealing lives that once supported extraordinary natural riches and explaining how humans – the most important cornerstone species of all – can become the greatest stewards of the natural world.
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- AlbaRoo🦶🏽
- 16-09-2023
educational, soapbox,
I loved the first half + but the continual grandstanding and banging on about the effects of climate change (something i would presume 99% of anyone interested in listening to this book is well aware of and would find the lecture offensive , it was fantastic listening to the effects the animal world has on itself if we just leave it alone ,
I live in Australia where some of your suggestions would be nothing short of dangerous to children and pets parks with wildflowers unmown?paths with growth and leaf litter to the edge would result in 100's of brown and tigersnake bites a year nearly all fatal , not to mention spiders etc , streams with growth into cities will lead to happy crocs !
as Britain warms your own adders will become faster and more active , beware you will become us in time !
worth a listen the lectures are a much , ps. if your reader is unsure of pronunciation of placenames call the post office I doubt this fella has spent much time in Scotland.
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