Living with Lynx

Sharing Landscapes with Big Cats, Wolves and Bears

Jonny Hanson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2025
Pelagic Publishing (Verlag)
9781784274955 (ISBN)

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This book investigates whether we could and should learn to live with species like lynx, wolves and bears again in Britain and Ireland. We travel back in time, across the world and into the future to explore this contested topic.

This book investigates a vital and controversial question for conservation and rewilding in Britain and Ireland: could and should we learn to live with lynx, wolves and bears again? We travel back in time, around the world and into the future to explore this contested topic. The author delves deep into the human psyche, considering not only his own mixed feelings about large carnivore reintroductions but also why people have such polarised perspectives on top predators. He brings his unique combination of expertise on snow leopards – and their relationship with humans – along with his experience as a farmer to illustrate the discussion.

Along the way, we meet a cast of characters from across society, including farmers, rewilders and everyone in between. It becomes clear that coexisting with large carnivores is as much about sharing landscapes with each other as it is about sharing them with wildlife. The first book to tackle this subject in detail, based on more than 50 interviews from seven countries, Living with Lynx will be of relevance to anyone with an interest in the future of nature, farming and the countryside. Personal, detailed, unflinching and engaging, it adds a great deal to this rapidly evolving debate.

Jonny Hanson is an environmental social scientist at Queen's University Belfast and an award-winning social entrepreneur who set up and managed Northern Ireland’s first community-owned farm. Raised between Malawi, Africa, and Monaghan, Ireland, he has a PhD in snow leopard conservation from the University of Cambridge and is an Affiliate of the Snow Leopard Conservancy. www.jonnyhanson.com @jonnyhhanson

Acknowledgements

Preface

PAST

1. The Lay of the Land

2. Our Inner Landscapes

3. Where the Wild Things Aren’t

4. Comeback Kids

5. Missing Links

PRESENT

6. The Lynx Will Lie Down with the Lamb

7. Money Talks

8. A Deadly Game

9. Animal Spirits

10. Common Ground

FUTURE

11. The Call of the Wild

12. Political Animals

13. Home Sweet Home

14. For the Love of Wisdom

15. Reconciliation

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2025
Verlagsort	Exeter
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	427 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-13	9781784274955 / 9781784274955
Zustand	Neuware