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<\/a><\/p>\nDispatches from the Conservation Revolution<\/strong><\/p>\n Metropolitan Books, 12\/22\/2009<\/p>\n ISBN: 978-0-8050-7826-8, ISBN10: 0-8050-7826-6,<\/p>\n 6-1\/8 x 9-1\/4 inches, 416 pages, 1 8-pg. insert; 13 maps,<\/p>\n Book\/Hardcover\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 $28.50<\/p>\n On sale December 22, 2009<\/p>\n Order: http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/rewildingtheworld<\/a><\/p>\n Reviewed by Pamela Biery<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rewilding the World <\/em><\/a>by Caroline Fraser is a methodical and lyrical report on global conservation efforts to establish and preserve migratory corridors. Fraser revisits Aldo Leopold\u2019s remarkable A Sand County Almanac<\/em><\/a> essay Thinking Like a Mountain,<\/em> wherein Leopold realizes that killing a predator wolf carries serious implications for the rest of the ecosystem. Fraser traces projects seeded by thought leaders like Michael Soule and Reed Noss in their landmark 1998 Wild Earth<\/em> article Rewilding and Biodiversity, <\/em>traveling the globe to witness and report on rewilding projects now underway in North America, Africa, Australia, Asia, Central and South America.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pivotal to the rewilding concept is the extinction dynamics of top-down regulation by large carnivores, known as the \u201cthree C\u2019s: Cores, Corridors, and Carnivores.\u201d Fraser takes these concepts into the very real world of threatened species and the humans who are at work to save and restore space and species\u2014 grassroots activists like the parataxonomists in Costa Rica and the Australian Gondwana Link project, which is reinvigorating native plants.<\/p>\n Fraser is on time to report on rewilding, an idea globally embraced by conservationists with a plethora of positive action, advanced by Patagonia, with their Freedom to Roam<\/em> 2007-08 campaign and informed by Dave Foreman\u2019s, 2004 book Rewilding North America, A Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century<\/em>. If ever there was a conservation idea ready to take hold and change awareness, it\u2019s rewilding in 2010.<\/p>\n If ever there was a conservation idea ready to take hold and change awareness, it\u2019s rewilding in 2010.<\/p>\n Bringing disparate work together to paint a vital picture of engaged conservation, Fraser gives the reader a rare glimpse at the broader pattern in a fabric often seen only as a few threads. Part travel narrative, part on-the-ground reporting, and part analysis, Fraser leaves the reader informed and hopeful\u2014an unusual combination in today\u2019s ecological state of affairs.<\/p>\n Caroline Fraser\u2019s first book, God\u2019s Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church<\/em>, was selected as a New York Times Book Review Notable Book<\/em> and a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Book<\/em>. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker<\/em>, The New York Review of Books<\/em>, and Outside<\/em> magazine, among others. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.<\/p>\n Pamela Biery is a freelance writer and PR professional living in the Bay Area.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If ever there was a conservation idea ready to take hold and change awareness, it\u2019s rewilding in 2010.<\/p>\nby Caroline Fraser<\/strong><\/h2>\n
About Caroline Fraser<\/h2>\n