Lazy days
Sep 22, 2022
4 minutes
Reviews editors: Margaret Bartlett, Maria Hodson
HARNESSING NATURE’S WILD FORCES
Meet the ecosystem engineers who could restore our habitats in this compelling plea for rewilding
BOOK
CORNERSTONES
BY BENEDICT MACDONALD
BLOOMSBURY, £17.99 (HB)
Not all species are equal. Some shape the very land or water around them, simply by moving, eating and defecating, in the process helping other plants and animals. In this visionary book, Benedict Macdonald explores the far-reaching impacts of these ecosystem engineers – or, as he calls them, “cornerstones”.
A wildlife filmmaker and passionate advocate of rewilding, Macdonald is on a mission. If we are to repair Britain’s shattered natural habitats, he says,
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