Balance

Rewilding has become the key talking point in the modern conservation movement It is still commonly misunderstood as a campaign to fill the forests with lynxes, wolves and bears. The guiding ethos is more nuanced and broader ins scope and here 50 contributors at the forefront of nature agencies and national parks, wetland wildernesses and marshes describe their work on the wild side rewilding and restoring the Caledonian Forest, the Cairngorms National Park, Epping Forest, the Burren, the red squirrel, Cabragh Wetlands, Lough Carra, the North Atlantic salmon, conservation of butterflies and moths, great bustards, rewilding bumble bees. Isabella Tree tells us that pigs breed purple emperors, Martin Simpson says a pray for red kites at Gleadless, and at the seashore we meet little terns, whales, read a hedgehog story and about the Vetch Community Garden.