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Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life | George Monbiot

A very passionate take from my hero, Monbiot on what needs to be done to tackle environmental and ecological breakdown.

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jlhammar That was great. Thanks for sharing! 7mo

AllDebooks @jlhammar he's not wrong!! 7mo

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Chelsea.Poole

Wilding | Isabella Tree

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Pictured alongside photos from my attempts at making a better landscape for pollinators and fostering a native environment in my own backyard, Wilding is further inspiration to continue my efforts! Finally got around to finishing this #NaturaLitsy read. Though focused on British flora and fauna there are many environments mentioned throughout. Why did I know so little about the turtledove? I hope this movement continues across the globe!

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BookwormAHN

Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape | Cal Flyn

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This book is about how we destroy the world and how nature gets creative rebuilding it. It's also very similar to the TV show Mysteries of the Abandoned.
#Naturalitsy @AllDebooks #NaturalitsyBingo #rewilding

SamAnne Reading this right now & really appreciating it. I just had 2.8 acres of fairly mature forest and habitat next to my home in inner city Spokane WA destroyed by developers--who have broken laws right & left. I've been grieving--& I was so close to raising private dollars to purchase the property to add to adjacent park. While reading this book, I've reversed course and now want to try to buy it again....we can rehab it! For the next generation. 10mo

BookwormAHN @SamAnne I think you should go for it and good luck 🍀 10mo

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wordslinger42

Wilding | Isabella Tree

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What a phenomenal book!! I'm so glad to have jumped back into the #naturalitsy group when I did so that I didn't miss out on reading this 💚 I'm definitely going to keep up-to-date on what's happening at Knepp!

Now, here's hoping I can finish The Language of Butterflies before the end of this month, so I can actually be reading June's book at the same time as the rest of the group 😂

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AllDebooks So glad you enjoyed it 😊 11mo

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Wilding | Isabella Tree

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I fully enjoyed this story of returning an old English estate farm back to its natural roots and as the project continued the unexpected surprises that emerged as one resurgence led to other species returns and rebounds. And interesting how much this is still a fight with both the community & government to let “good land go to waste” even now as we pay farms not to produce and watch species fall into extinction.

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Thank you for another great book find & read #NaturaLitsy 12mo

AllDebooks So pleased you enjoyed it x 12mo

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Wilding | Isabella Tree

#LoveBird works for this book I‘m so many ways!

#Pantone2023 @Clwojick

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AllDebooks

Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea, and Human Life | George Monbiot

#Naturalitsy

Highly recommend these titles. Feral was the book that started me on this path. Also
* Last child in the woods Richard Louv
* Wild child - Patrick Barkham
* Wild: an elemental journey - Jay Griffiths
* Rewild the sea - Charles Clover

On my tbr - Regenesis - George Monbiot
Wildfell - Lee Schofield
Land healer - Jake Fiennes
Rewilding: the radical new science of ecological recovery - Cain Blythe and Paul Jepson

I could go on .. 🤔

AllDebooks Please feel free to add your own choices x 12mo

AllDebooks @sebrittainclark @Cuilin 12mo

Cuilin

Nature of Nature: Why We Need the Wild

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sebrittainclark Thanks for the recs! Going to start adding to my tbr 12mo

jlhammar These all look wonderful. Thank you! 12mo

AllDebooks @sebrittainclark @jlhammar you're welcome. I forgot

Cornerstones: Wild forces that can change our world

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AllDebooks @Cuilin great recommendation, stacked! 12mo

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jlhammar

Wilding | Isabella Tree

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Loved this book! I was completely captivated from beginning to end. The story of rewilding the Knepp Estate is amazing, surprising and inspiring. Just signed-up for their newsletter so I can follow their projects going forward. #NaturaLitsy

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jlhammar https://knepp.co.uk/ 12mo

AllDebooks Wonderful! So glad you enjoyed it 😊 12mo

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AllDebooks

Wilding | Isabella Tree

#Naturalitsy

Our final discussion thread for Wilding.
Have you enjoyed it?
Do you have any particular likes/dislikes?
Has it changed your way of thinking about how we maintain and protect our wild spaces, including our own gardens?
Please let loose with your thoughts🤔🌱🐾🌼🐖

📚 Next up - The language of butterflies, starts Monday 8th May. 📚

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AllDebooks @TheBookHippie @Riveted_Reader_Melissa @jlhammar @MelisK @LeeRHarry @Soubhiville @wanderinglynn @SamAnne @claudiuo @PageShifter @Addison_Reads @BarkingMadRead @CaitZ @BeckyWithTheGoodBooks 12mo

AllDebooks @Aimeesue @tdrosebud @Soscha @ElizaMarie @Larkken @Caterina @sebrittainclark @bnp @daena @TEArificbooks @BookBelle84 @Jess861 @TheKidUpstairs @Hooked_on_books @Julsmarshall @Readergrrl @AmandaBlaze @Morr_Books 12mo

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sebrittainclark I was unfamiliar with the concept of rewilding, so I really enjoyed that and the descriptions of Knepp. I felt like some of the science, especially towards the end, was fairly biased towards all the things Knepp is doing being the only right way, and I really didn't like the bit where the author made the claim that raw milk would reduce certai childhood conditions, so I had fairly mixed feelings in the end. 12mo

Cuilin My name wasn‘t tagged so I‘m glad I caught this. I really enjoyed it overall. However the tone got a bit self- satisfied and pompous towards the end. I don‘t know what science she was reading about food and nutrition or the idea that any slaughterhouse is humane. The clue is in the name. I really think she was trying to justify the culling of the longhorns. It would‘ve been better to just state that they had to change their plans. 12mo

Cuilin The return of bugs, birds, grasses and plants was delightful. 12mo

jlhammar Well, I absolutely loved this book! I was so surprised to learn that the Catholics used to eat beavers during Lent and on Holy Days because they were categorized as fish (making them permissible). Also had no idea that beavers were nocturnal. The insights of Temple Grandin were pretty cool. And the Tamworth pigs diving for mussels - wow! 12mo

Cuilin @sebrittainclark same. The science was a bit nebulous. 12mo

jlhammar Oh, and the health services finding that “hospital patients need fewer painkillers after surgery and recover much faster if they have views of nature from their beds“ really stood out to me. Makes a lot of sense, but I hadn't heard about that study before. 12mo

TEArificbooks I found the nature bits interesting, especially about the trees and animals. I am glad they have found some successes. The beaver chapter was my favorite. I do think she has a pompous attitude kinda “my way is the only way and will fix 500 years of engineers and farmers being stupid and bureaucracy sucks” bit hypercritical at the end “kids should run wild outside but not on my land” 12mo

AllDebooks @sebrittainclark I agree, about the mixed feelings. An awful lot of snobbery and self congratulatory comments, which is annoying when she freelt admits her and Charlie knew nothing at the start. Knepp's success is due to their vision, a legion of professional support, experience and knowledge and crucially, gov and EU subsidised income. 12mo

AllDebooks @Cuilin I'm so sorry, I missed you in the tagging, my bad 😱 I better go back and check it. I was a little dubious about some of the research she used. I'd definitely want to read more on the nutritional values of rewilding. 12mo

AllDebooks @jlhammar it really is a wow factor of a book. Rewilding and regeneration books are my favourite nature category 12mo

AllDebooks @TEArificbooks I loved all of the evidence of nature flourishing through so many different species. That part is very eye-opening and inspirational. 12mo

sebrittainclark @AllDebooks are there other rewilding books you would recommend? I'd love to read more books about rewilding. 12mo

AllDebooks @sebrittainclark oh boy, you're gonna regret saying that! 🤔😅📚📚📚📚📚 12mo

AllDebooks Anyone else interested in rewilding books? I'll do a separate thread of recommendations 12mo

Cuilin @AllDebooks no worries. I didn‘t want to miss any of the discussions. 12mo

Cuilin @AllDebooks I know I may regret it as I already did some research and I have a list going, but what‘s the harm in adding more? 😬 12mo

AllDebooks @Cuilin 😅 12mo

AllDebooks Thread to more recommendations. Please feel free to add your own choices ☺️ https://litsy.com/p/aXlMY3NhZ3R2 12mo

AllDebooks **FYI** Knepp's head gardener has a podcast on transforming the walled gardens on the estate. https://www.gardensillustrated.com/podcasts/talking-gardens-charlie-harpur/ 12mo

Hooked_on_books Overall I enjoyed these final chapters. I love that the type of pony they have looks so similar to the Lascaux cave paintings. That‘s so cool! And the info about progression of the soil was interesting. I enjoyed the beaver chapter, especially the info about people sneaking beavers into places. I love that! I read a great book on beavers:

Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter

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Hooked_on_books @sebrittainclark @Cuilin I absolutely agree with both of you about her confirmation bias. I wouldn‘t describe myself as a nutrition expert, but I know a bit more than the average person, and there‘s a whole lot of data out there showing that animal protein should not be a major part of our diets! So it was really interesting to watch her cherry pick to say it should be. Makes me wonder what else she is ignoring. 12mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Overall I really enjoyed it, I did have some of the same questions about nutrition at the end… the other thing that came up in my mind though…a few times… is what are they doing now that England has left the EU. Brexit should have severed them from most of their financial support. 😬 and she was very clear that England isn‘t as forward thinking in these issues as the EU. 12mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Also… the part about people waking their dogs “off leash” in the park or riding their horses through the park seems bad to me. We need to leash our dogs in highly manicured (not at all natural) parks in the US….letting them just run through a rewinding park seems bad to me… like letting them run through a zoo 🫣 bad things will happen. (edited) 12mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Otherwise I enjoyed it, and want to know more about the EU projects that have gone much further. 12mo

Hooked_on_books I just bumped into an interesting article about rewilding in Scotland: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/scotland-could-become-first-re... 12mo

AllDebooks @Hooked_on_books I found the soil changes and earthworms absolutely fascinating too 12mo

AllDebooks @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I agree about the nutrition claims. I would want to explore that more. Brexit must have been a huge blow. 12mo

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Hooked_on_books

Wilding | Isabella Tree

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Wilding tells the story of a couple‘s decision to rewild their enormous 3500 acre property rather than continue intensive farming. It‘s quite interesting to follow how they went about this and why certain decisions were made as well as the early results. However, the book does bog down a bit in a few places and the author leans a bit too heavily into confirmation bias.

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