Picture credit: Australian Wildlife Conservancy – The Northern Quoll is the smallest of the four Australian quoll species, their habitat is now protected
A collection of the Global Rewilding Alliance team’s favourite reads about rewilding and wild nature. Tap or click on any of the titles to discover more.
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm
Isabella Tree
An awe-inspiring, accessible introduction to rewilding. A book that has transformed the lives of many fortunate to read it.
Recommended by Will Kelsey
Feral: Rewilding the Land, the Sea and Human Life
George Monbiot
Feral invites you to imagine a wilder world. By restoring and rewilding our ecosystems on land and at sea, we can bring wonder back in our lives. We are taken on a journey brought to life by lyrical prose of Monbiot’s own experiences.
Recommended by May Scott
Rewilding the Sea: How to Save Our Oceans
Charles Clover
Deep dive into ocean rewilding success stories, daring to dream of wilder seas. Charles Clover offers a behind-the-scenes account of how Blue Marine Foundation became a globally recognised wave maker in ocean conservation.
Recommended by Frankie Read-Cutting
Wilder: How Rewilding is Transforming Conservation and Changing the World
Millie Kerr
Kerr instills in us active hope for a better future. This book is a celebration of the growing, global network of rewilders and inspires us all to become a part of the solution.
Recommended by Isaline Tihon
Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
Christopher J Preston
Some animals have defied global trends toward extinction: bears in Italy, bison in North America, whales in the Atlantic, some of them in numbers unimaginable in a century. This book, woven stories from the researchers, indigenous people and activists themselves, offers a road map and hope for a wilder future.
Recommended by Friends of the GRA
Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe
As ecologists Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe show, rewilding is a new and progressive approach to conservation, blending radical scientific insights with practical innovations to revive ecological processes, benefiting people as well as nature.
Recommended by Ramandeep Nijjar
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall-Kimmerer
This book weaves together Indigenous wisdom, Western science and personal storytelling to reveal how we can rewild not only ecosystems but also our relationship with the natural world.
Recommended by Isaline Tihon
Rewilding Africa: Restoring the Wilderness on a War-Ravaged Continent
Grant Fowlds and Graham Spence
A vivid account of conservationist Grant Fowlds’ ongoing efforts to conserve and rewild Africa’s iconic wildlife and its wildernesses, ravaged by years of conflict, from South Africa to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and from Angola to Mozambique.
Recommended by Friends of the GRA
Rebirding: Restoring Britain’s Wildlife
Benedict MacDonald
A visionary plan to restore the abundance of birdlife to Britain by rethinking outdated land management practices.
Recommended by Ramandeep Nijjar
God is an Octopus: Loss, Love and a Calling to Nature
Ben Goldsmith
In the face of grief, Ben Goldsmith finds solace in nature by immersing himself in plans to rewild his farm. There, we join him in (re)discovering an enduring love, hope and renewal of the natural world.
Recommended by Alister Scott
The Power of Trees: How Ancient Forests Can Save Us If We Let Them
Peter Wohlleben
An illuminating manifesto on how ancient trees adapt to climate change by passing their wisdom through generations, and why our future lies in protecting them.
Recommended by Martin Young
Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible
Simon Barnes
We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. But we can make hidden things visible, and this book features 23 spellbinding ways to bring the magic of nature much closer to home.
Recommended by Ramandeep Nijjar
Rewilding: India’s Experiments in Saving Nature
Bahar Dutt
The extinction crisis is well known. What is not are stories of people trying to turn the tide. Dutt documents untold stories of hope from India.
Recommended by Will Kelsey
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
Merlin Sheldrake
A mind-altering journey into a spectacular yet neglected world, transforming our understanding of our planet and life itself.
Recommended by Karl Wagner
Wildernis in Eigen Land
Jeroen Helmer
Tapping into the power of ‘free nature’, Jeroen gives an eagle-eye view of wild nature in the Netherlands, past, present and future. His story drawings are used all over the world by scientists and people who put rewilding into practice.
Recommended by May Scott
A Wild Idea: The True Story of Douglas Tompkins – The Greatest Conservationist (You’ve Never Heard Of)
Jonathan Franklin
A shining example of what can and must be done to restore wildlife and the world on which all human society depends.
Recommended by Will Kelsey
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