Book review: Rewilding, by Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe

Rewilding was not a familiar term ten years ago. Though it was first coined in 1992, it remained a rather niche idea in conservation circles. It has risen up the agenda in the UK, propelled by debates around the re-introduction of beavers, and books such as George Monbiot’s Feral or Isabella Tree’s Wilding.

Those two books are an activist polemic and a personal story respectively. Both excellent in their own ways, but neither offering an introduction to the science behind rewilding, the ...