Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard

Written by Douglas W. Tallamy

Narrated by Adam Barr

Homeowners everywhere can learn how to turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats by using these practical, effective, and easy tips.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media
• Release date: May 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9781666598339

Douglas W. Tallamy

Douglas W. Tallamy is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware, where he has authored ninety-five research publications and has taught insect-related courses for thirty-nine years. His books on nature have received a number of awards, including the 2008 Silver Medal by the Garden Writers' Association.

Reviews for Nature's Best Hope

[Rachel Hop · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

A common sense approach that is doable by every common human being.

[Lisa Simon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Very important information everyone needs to know. I have been following many of Doug Tallamys practices the last few years and already have more birds, insects and wildlife in my yard to enjoy than any of my neighbors. My native plants are beautiful and beneficial and my chemical free yard is healthy.

[Darris · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book opened my eyes to how innocently destructive we gardeners tend to be. Only a few pages into this book I dug into my tiny front yard garden and ripped out anything invasive I could identify. I dug out several large jade plants and gave them to a friend. I added two more “water features” and ordered a “bubbler“. This is the kind of book I want to give to everyone. There is so much here to digest and understand. Like people that say they love animals, but eat them, we say we love to garden, we love nature, and then we set about destroying it in our own precious gardens. Knowledge is power and knowledge to this degree can truly save the planet if we take it seriously and act on it.

[Maria Miramon · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I found this book to be encouraging and achievable! I will be joining in the efforts to conservation by reWilding most of my backyard!! I am excited for many reasons because I always struggle to keep a thick back yard due to not using fertilizer that my harm my daughters backyard chickens. So why not plant local plant species do I can contribute to ecosystem for local wildlife! I am officially joining the homegrown national park!!

[Julie · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

As new gardener I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am now inspired to add native plants and shrubs into my landscape.

[Kristi · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent information and inspiring to help in my own yard. The author isn’t asking to turn it all upside down to save the planet, just start with a few easy steps and let it take off!

[Andrea Montoya · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

If you are sick despair and read this and follow the advise in this book. Tallamy’s smart,logical and passionate approach to returning Nature back to (nearly) what it once was is a map toward personal empowerment. He has such a great way of exposing the problem but then has such wonderful advice about how to fix it.

[Alex W · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a great book for everyone who's not an ecologist. It gives you a good key summary of what you need to know to make your yard more ecologically productive and why that's important. It's appreciated to have an ecologist's perspective on some of the details for a native garden, but it is lacking in some of the level of detail I wanted for gardening with native plants. I wanted less theory and more practicality, but there IS practical advice too and the theory is helpful to know too.
Big heads up to Canadian or non-US readers: lots of info is only pertinent to the US and North America. If you're not in North America, I'm sure you can find an author on your continent to provide similar advice and much more practical information pertinent to your region.

Also watch out for chapter 6 - a fellow reader pointed out the significant lack of citations and structured arguments compared to other chapters. You can definitely skip this chapter and not miss anything important.