{"product_id":"bringing-back-the-beaver","title":"Bringing Back The Beaver","description":"\u003cp class=\"yiv7028007392msonormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003e‘\u003cstrong\u003eGow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside.’ \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"yiv7028007392msonormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003e‘This authentic, impassioned manifesto-cum-memoir will hopefully have a major impact on what is likely to be a long-running controversy.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"yiv7028007392msonormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003e‘Gow has a fire in his belly. We need more like him.’ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003eBBC Wildlife Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"yiv7028007392msonormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003eA Waterstones Best Nature Writing Book of 2020\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"yiv7028007392msonormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eBringing Back the Beaver\u003c\/em\u003e is a hilarious, eccentric and magnificent account of a struggle . . . to reintroduce a species crucial to the health of our ecosystems.’ George Monbiot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"yiv7028007392msonormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003eBringing Back the Beaver\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003e is farmer-turned-ecologist Derek Gow’s inspirational and often riotously funny first-hand account of how the movement to rewild beavers into the British landscape became the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s – in the face of outright opposition from government, landowning elites and even some conservation professionals – Gow has imported, quarantined and assisted the reestablishment of beavers in waterways across England and Scotland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"yiv7028007392msonormal\"\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003eWith a foreword by bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWilding\u003c\/em\u003e, Isabella Tree,\u003cem\u003e Bringing Back the Beaver\u003c\/em\u003e makes a passionate case as to why the return of one of nature’s great problem solvers will be critical as part of a sustainable fix for the UK’s growing flooding problems, whilst ensuring the creation of essential landscapes that enable the broadest spectrum of Britain’s wildlife to thrive. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"yiv7028007392msonormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"color: black;\"\u003e‘It is wonderful to see that beavers are now officially back on the list of native species, having been absent for so long . . . far too long!’ Dame Judi Dench\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57314593833342,"sku":"NW9781645021230","price":10.77,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781645021230.jpg?v=1778639607","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/bringing-back-the-beaver","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}