THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER
‘Utterly brilliant. We all need to read this book’ CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN
‘Patrick’s book is fascinating and sobering and makes a compelling argument for going back to basics’ JOE LYCETT
Foxes, buzzards, crows, badgers, weasels, seals, kites – Britain and Ireland’s predators are impressive and diverse and they capture our collective imagination. But many consider them to our competition, even our enemies.
The inconvenient truth is that we are causing the climate crisis with our carbon intensive lifestyles and that fixing – or even just slowing – it will affect all of us. But it can be done.
Finally, a practical, realistic plan to rescue, preserve and enhance nature.
Given the underlying topography, the scenery over most of Britain has been created largely by human activities. Over the centuries, landscapes have been continually modified as human needs and desires have changed.
Earlier naturalists formed the impression that bird numbers remained more or less stable through time. In the years since these words were written, however, changes have occurred in the landscapes of the British Isles and in the seas around our coasts, causing bird populations to fluctuate in an unprecedented way.
