Books
This page is a live and evolving document that aims to bring together a listing of books focused on rewilding (sorted by year of release). If you know of books and don’t find them here, please do let me know and I’ll gladly add them.
Water of Life: Fighting for Scotland’s Beavers (2025, Tom Bowser)
Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests (2025, Merlin Hanbury-Tenison)
Wilder: how rewilding is transforming conservation and changing the world (2024, Millie Kerr)
The Book of Wilding: a practical guide to rewilding, big and small (2023, Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell)
Rewilding: Auf der Suche nach einem Gleichgewicht zwischen Mensch und Natur (2023, Simone Böcker)
Wild Fell: Fighting for nature on a Lake District hill farm (2023, Lee Schofield)
Rewilding the Sea: how to save our oceans (2022, Charles Clover)
An Irish Atlantic Rainforest: A Personal Journey into the Magic of Rewilding (2022, Eoghan Daltun)
The Lost Rainforests of Britain (2022, Guy Shrubsole)
Cornerstones: wild forces that can change our world (2022, Benedict Macdonald)
Rewilding: bringing wildlife back where it belongs (2022, David A. Steen, Neon Squid and Chiara Fedele)
Rewilding in Nederland: essays over een offensieve natuurstrategie (2022, Koen Arts, Liesbeth Bakker and Arjen Buys)
Rewilding: the radical new science of ecological recovery (2020, Paul Jepson and Cain Blythe)
The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britains Lost Mammals (2020, Ross Barnett)
The Nature of Nature: why we need the wild (2020, Enric Sala)
Rewilding Iberia: exlporando el potential de la renaturalización en España (2020, Jordi Palau)
L’Europe réensauvagée (2020, Béatrice Kremer-Cochet)
Wilding: the return to nature to a British farm (2019, Isabella Tree)
Rebirding: Rewilding Britain and its Birds (2019, Benedict Macdonald)
The Lynx and Us (2018, David Hetherington)
Feral (2017, George Monbiot)
Rewilding North America: a vision for conservation in the 21st century (2004, Dave Foreman)
Here’s a broader selection of books about nature and climate (also includes fiction):
Looking for a next read? Here are 25 nature/rewilding/climate books
Special thanks to Rosie Howell for her recent post on the occasion of World Book Day. She inspired me with her selections, some of which I knew well, and some I'd never heard of. Then others added their own books to the post - and finally I've included some of my own suggestions in this article - it adds up to the nicely round number of the twenty-five …
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