biodiversity crisis: six recommended books

[Fi Webster]

Punchy short reviews of six books about the biodiversity crisis:

• The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
• The Unnatural History of the Sea by Callum Roberts
• The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• The Value of a Whale by Adrienne Buller
• Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds by Benedict Macdonald
• The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

I've read three of 'em (Quammen, Carson & Kolbert). I plan to read the other three over the holidays.

 

[tusenord]

Only read Silent Spring, but I work with preservation and am a total insect nerd. I'm a little wary with books like that because they make me so depressed I try to keep my hands dirty and doing whatever I can do to counter-act it, one added piece of dead wood or one restored pasture at a time.