BRINGING BACK THE BEAVER

â Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside â  Guardianâ This authentic impassioned manifesto cum memoir will hopefully have a major impact on what is likely to be a long running controversy â  The Spectatorâ Gow has a fire in his belly We need more like him â  BBC Wildlife MagazineA Waterstones Best Nature Writing Book of 2020â Bringing Back the Beaver is a hilarious eccentric and magnificent account of a struggle to reintroduce a species crucial to the health of our ecosystems â George MonbiotBringing Back the Beaver is farmer turned ecologist Derek Gowâ 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 â in the face of outright opposition from government landowning elites and even some conservation professionals â Gow has imported quarantined and assisted the reestablishment of beavers in waterways across England and Scotland With a foreword by bestselling author of Wilding Isabella Tree Bringing Back the Beaver makes a passionate case as to why the return of one of natureâ s great problem solvers will be critical as part of