The Missing Lynx

The Missing Lynx
Author :
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 361
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781472957337
ISBN-13 : 1472957334
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Missing Lynx by : Ross Barnett

Download or read book The Missing Lynx written by Ross Barnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back? Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago – home to lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early Britain's largest mammals disappeared. Will advances in science and technology mean that we can one day bring these mammals back? And should we? In The Missing Lynx, palaeontologist Ross Barnett uses case studies, new fossil discoveries and biomolecular evidence to paint a picture of these lost species and to explore the ecological significance of their disappearance. He discusses how the Britons these animals shared their lives with might have viewed them and investigates why some species survived while others vanished. Barnett also looks in detail at the realistic potential of reintroductions, rewilding and even of resurrection in Britain and overseas, from the successful return of beavers in Argyll to the revolutionary Pleistocene Park in Siberia, which has already seen progress in the revival of 'mammoth steppe' grassland. As widespread habitat destruction, climate change and an ever-growing human population lead us inexorably towards the sixth extinction, this timely book explores the spaces that extinction has left unfilled. And by helping us to understand why some of our most charismatic animals are gone, Ross Barnett encourages us to look to a brighter future, one that might see these missing beasts returned to the land on which they once lived and died.


The Missing Lynx Related Books

The Missing Lynx
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Ross Barnett
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-11 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Britain's lynx are missing, and they have been for more than a thousand years. Why have they gone? And might they come back? Britain was a very different place
Missing Lynx
Language: en
Pages: 352
Authors: Kim Baldwin
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-15 - Publisher: Bold Strokes Books Inc

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Where do you run when there's nowhere to hide? When a sadistic serial killer known as the Headhunter resurfaces, a government blunder forces the Elite Operative
Mystery of the Lost Lynx
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Tamra Wight
Categories: Juvenile Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-21 - Publisher: Cooper and Packrat

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Cooper, Packrat and friends are hoping for winter fun at their favorite campground. But a mysterious lynx kit, a reckless snowmobiler, and a potentially dangero
The Missing Lynx
Language: en
Pages: 168
Authors: Stephen M. Gower
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-11 - Publisher: The Gower Group, Inc

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Missing Lynx
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Fiona Quinn
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-08 - Publisher: CreateSpace

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In Missing Lynx we follow Lexi from her home in suburban Washington D.C., to a prison in Honduras. There she must use all of her skills to escape the clutches o