SuitabookExplodapedia: Rewild
Ben Martynoga
- Reading
- Read a chapter at a time, pausing to sketch or explain one ecological relationship. Use the glossary when unfamiliar terms arise, then discuss the closing practical advice without assuming every proposal works everywhere.
- Themes
- Rewilding as a response to environmental damage: The book explains rewilding and presents it as a way nature and people might flourish after substantial human damage to the natural world. Rewilding is presented positively and hopefully as a meaningful response to environmental problems.
- Scientific ideas made approachable: The book uses examples such as wolves, beavers, whales, fungi and mammoths alongside diagrams and explanations of ecological concepts. Its approach appears to make specialist ideas approachable through humour, illustrations and carefully explained terminology.
- Worth knowing
- Some sections present difficult realities: climate change, biodiversity loss and extensive human damage to nature. The treatment is described as hopeful rather than gloomy, but the scale of the challenges may still invite careful discussion.