Becca’s Reviews > Wilding > Status Update

[paraphrased]: “how come these plants exist now if they didn’t exist in the past?” 🤔

Wait, so ARAs send death threats to Frans for not interfering in the deaths of wild herds at Oostvaardersplassen and won’t accept farming either? 🤦‍♀️

“The updated 2016 State of Nature report discovered that the UK has lost significantly more biodiversity over the long term than the world average. Ranked twenty-ninth lowest out of 218 countries, we are among the most nature-depleted countries in the world.” (Using The biodiversity intactness index.)

“David Quammen describes an ecosystem as being like a Persian carpet. Cut it into tiny squares, and you get not tiny carpets, but a lot of useless scraps of material fraying at the edges.”