Birds, Beasts, and Bedlam Audiobook Libro.fm

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Birds Beasts and Bedlam recounts the adventures of farmerturnedrewilder Derek Gow who is saving Britains muchloved but dangerously threatened species from the water vole to beaver wildcat to white stork and tree frog to glow worm Derek tells us all about the realities of rewilding how he reared delicate roe deer and a sofaloving wild boar piglet moved a raging bison bull across the country got bitten by a Scottish wildcat returned honking skeins of graylag geese to the land and water that was once theirs and restored the white stork to the Knepp Estate with Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree Dereks first book Bringing Back the Beaver was a riotously funny and subversive account of his singlehanded reintroduction of the beaver in Britain Birds Beasts and Bedlam a natural successor to Gerald Durrells A Zoo in My Luggage tells the story of Dereks rewilding journey and his work to save many more species by transforming his Devon farm into a wildlife breeding center He now houses beavers white storks water voles lynx wildcats and harvest mice with the aim of releasing them into the wild one day Tearing down fences literally and metaphorically Derek Gow is the one person with the character and strength of will to defy authority bend the rules and save our wildlife