Rambunctious Garden; Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World by Emma Marris Led by Libby Pethick, staff member, Jenkins Arboretum & Gardens In this optimistic book, readers meet leading scientists and environmentalists and visit imaginary Edens, designer ecosystems and Pleistocene parks. Marris describes innovative conservation approaches including rewilding, assisted migration, and the embrace of so-called novel ecosystems.
Rambunctious Garden is short on gloom and long on interesting theories and fascinating narratives, all of which bring home the idea that we must give up our romantic notions of pristine wilderness and replace them with the concept of a global, half-wild rambunctious garden planet, tended by us.
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