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Derek Gow

Born

Dundee, Scotland

Genre

Rewilding, Nature Conservation

Influences

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Derek Gow (b. 1965) is a UK-based reintroduction expert, farmer and author known for his work with watervoles, white storks, wildcats, and Eurasian beavers.

He also imported the first Heck cattle to the UK. However, after aggressive behaviour could harm or even kill handlers, a significant proportion of the herd was culled.

Born in Dundee, he left school when he was 17 and worked in agriculture for five years. Inspired by the writing of [sauthor:Gerald Durrell], he jumped at the chance to manage a European wildlife park in central Scotland in the late 1990s before moving on to develop two nature centres in England. Gow owns a 300 acre farm in Lifton, Devon, which is home to captive breeding facilities, accommodation and a working farm. Much o ...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 1,226 ratings · 199 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bringing Back the Beaver: The Story of One Man's Quest to Rewild Britain's Waterways by Derek Gow, Isabella Tree (Foreword) 3.92 avg rating — 830 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them 3.47 avg rating — 254 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species 3.73 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2022 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eurasian Beaver by Róisín Campbell-Palmer, Derek Gow, Robert Needham 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Eurasian Beaver Handbook: Ecology and Management of Castor Fiber (Conservation Handbooks) by Róisín Campbell-Palmer, Derek Gow, Ruairidh Campbell 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2016 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chelsea Green Publishing Company Hunt for the Shadow Wolf The lost history of wolves and the myths and stories that surround them. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Water Vole Mitigation Handbook: The Mammal Society Guidance Series by Mike Dean, Derek Gow, Richard Andrews really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you wish to bludgeon badgers or beavers or remove peregrine falcons and hen harrier chicks from their nests, a way can be found. If you wish, on the other hand, to restore fading species for nature conservation purposes, then you have to fill in 90-page documents which will be thoroughly scrutinized eventually and returned to you with a further suite of impossibly complex questions.”
― Derek Gow, Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species

tags: conservation, nature, nature-quotes, rewilding

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“Perhaps we resent them for being a life force that's ungovernable by us.”
― Derek Gow, Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them

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