Rewilding Just Might Save Our Planet

  one book has held a place in my ever-changing pile of bedside reading: Caroline Fraser’s (Metropolitan Books, 2009). When I first bought the book, the term “rewilding” suggested to me the restoration of an Edenic wilderness. But, as I learned, rewilding is a gradual process. It involves the reintroduction of native flora and fauna—including foundational plants and animals, known as keystone species, some of which you’ll meet on these pages—so that nature can take its