Bringing Back the Beaver, Derek Gow

Bringing Back the Beaver, Derek GowNew Paperback Bringing Back the Beaver is farmer turned ecologist Derek Gow's inspirational and often riotously funny first hand account of how the movement to rewild beavers into the British landscape became the single most dramatic and subversive nature conservation act of the modern era. Since the early 1990s, in the face of outright opposition from government, landowning elites and even some conservation professionals Gow has imported, quarantined

to the scientists trying to prove Einstein wrong (and inadvertently proving him right)

It tells the story of a group of farm animals who revolt against their keeper

followed by army coup and regicide

Including beautiful photography

shedding light on the early career of Kim Philby

whilst ensuring the creation of essential landscapes that enable the broadest spectrum of Britain's wildlife to thrive

as she watches otters play tag across the beach

revealing much detail about camouflage patterns

rigged trials and the greatest network of informers it has ever seen

had to share our lives

Burton became too sick to press on

private writings and historical research