After decades of operating off-the-backfoot and protecting and conserving nature perceived as under threat, conservationists are becoming proactive and creative in the face of habitat loss, agricultural intensification and climate change. Beyond Conservation offers a revolutionary agenda for both managing existing wildlands in Britain and for expanding and connecting such lands. Central to this strategy is the imperative to 'rewild' or restore and repair damaged habitat and ecosystems, promote existing biodiversity and reintroduce vanished plant and animal species, while working to reconcile human needs and livelihoods and the needs of nature.
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'Peter Taylor builds bridges between ecology, countryside policy and spirituality .... This book is novel in its breadth, and offers a sharp challenge to conventional thinking in conservation.' Bill Adams, University of Cambridge 'There is a new determination to be more pro-active, more creative and much bolder, and Peter Taylor's important book captures that mood brilliantly.' Chris Baines, Resurgence 'This is a vitally important and much needed book, which shows the way forward for a renewed and positive relationship between people and wild Nature in Britain. Lucidly and authoritatively covering topics ranging from the ecological role of our country's missing mammals to the healing power of natural forests, and drawing upon the work of practical projects already underway, Peter Taylor articulates an inspiring vision of a possible future Britain, replete with large core areas of wild, natural ecosystems. The book offers a beacon of hope to all those who draw spiritual sustenance from wild Nature, and is essential reading for anyone seeking a positive alternative to the ongoing biological depletion of our country' Alan Featherstone, Trees for Life 'Peter is an informed, passionate and compassionate guide. [This book] deserves to succeed firstly in provoking a necessary debate about the future for nature management on the basis of some perceptive ideas and a clear vision; secondly in challenging us all to see working with nature as an essentially soul-full process and thirdly in strengthening the steadily growing acceptance that allowing more space for wild nature, being less prescriptive, can happen anywhere we choose to let it. It will be read and enjoyed by enthusiasts for the wild [and] will also provide an excellent introduction to wild-land themes for students.' ECOS 26 (2), David Russell, former Head of Forestry at the National Trust
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Peter Taylor is an independent consultant specializing in environmental policy. He was founder and director of the Political Ecology Research Group (1978-1992), and now leads the communications consultancy Ethos.
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Outside and Inside - Bringing together the practical and the spiritual in conservation
6 Dec 2009
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This is the most exciting book I have read in a long time. Taylor's extensive and deep study and knowledge and practice of ecology and conservation rings with my own practical experience in conservation and my academic research into the ways people experience landscape. What makes this exceptional is that the seriously academic is grounded not only in the slow and persistent but effective working with local people and organisations in the region of Wales where he lives, but also in the inner journey of the individual human as he or she goes through life, including his own. Taking as examples several adventurous projects around the UK, including Coed Eryri in Snowdonia, Caledon in Scotland and Dartmoor, his earlier chapters cover, extensively, possible ways of restoring ecological processes, regenerating vegetation, herbivores and carnivores. In putting these forward he also challenges many long-held ways of thinking in conservation, including those of himself. Later, however,in Chapter 9 "The Healing Forest", he explains and describes the importance of inner change of attitudes; in, I felt, a dynamic and inclusive way,(it did not make me want to switch off because some of it was a bit "freaky"!) he links the insights of Jung and others, and complementary healing practitioners, with those of Native American and pagan traditions as well as Western and Eastern mainstream spiritual traditions, showing what these may bring to the restoration of ecological processes, to find a unifying "healing peace" where the rational and intuitive, the masculine and feminine, in sharp polarity in our contemporary world, are brought together in an understanding of Mother Earth "the heart of nature: wild to the core".
Taylor's understanding of a "wildland ethic" is much greater than what might be thought a mere romantic and impractical reintroduction of lost species - in fact it seems to me he is cautious about suggesting only what is reasonably achievable for each of the regions he discusses; I think he points towards a refinding of the experience of nature itself in everyday living whether in rural or urban places, in increasing our sensitivity to the natural world around us and the healing of negative attitudes and restoring of vision.
Taylor's understanding of a "wildland ethic" is much greater than what might be thought a mere romantic and impractical reintroduction of lost species - in fact it seems to me he is cautious about suggesting only what is reasonably achievable for each of the regions he discusses; I think he points towards a refinding of the experience of nature itself in everyday living whether in rural or urban places, in increasing our sensitivity to the natural world around us and the healing of negative attitudes and restoring of vision.
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I came to this book after attending a lecture by the author. He opened his talk with a series of observations and insights as to our relationship with our countryside and nature in general. It was as compelling an introduction to the subject as I had ever heard and was the first time I had someone put into words many of the things that I felt myself. Within this book these sentiments are wonderfully expanded upon and combined with extensive and thorough research to culminate in a highly evocative and pragmatic approach to restoring our treasured landscapes to at least some of their former glory. It presents a notion that could easily be dismissed as quixotic by some corners and gives it feasibility as well as appeal and leaves you thinking of the future of our countryside with new found optimism.
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British wildlands management issues revealed
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Peter Taylor's BEYOND CONSERVATION: A WILDLAND STRATEGY draws some important connections between conservation and land management issues. It focuses on managing existing wildlands in Britain and discusses the need to restore and repair damaged ecosystems, blending social, wildlife management and spiritual insights into the mix. In focussing on and highlighting specific management projects in different regions of the country, BEYOND CONSERVATION offers many insights on rebuilding ambitions.
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