Natures Best Hope, Douglas W. Tallamy
Natures Best Hope, Douglas W. Tallamy
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Nature's Best Hope
A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard

Author: Douglas W. Tallamy

Narrator: Adam Barr

Unabridged: 6 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/20/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Gardening

Synopsis

Douglas W. Tallamys first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of individuals to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in decline because the native plants they depend on are fast disappearing. His solution? Plant more natives. In this new book, Tallamy takes the next step and outlines his vision for a grassroots approach to conservation. Natures Best Hope shows how homeowners everywhere can turn their yards into conservation corridors that provide wildlife habitats. Because this approach relies on the initiatives of private individuals, it is immune from the whims of government policy. Even more important, its practical, effective, and easyyou will walk away with specific suggestions you can incorporate into your own yard. If youre concerned about doing something good for the environment, Natures Best Hope is the blueprint you need. By acting now, you can help preserve our precious wildlifeand the planetfor future generations.

About Douglas W. Tallamy

Douglas W. Tallamy is currently professor and chair of the department of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, where he has taught insect taxonomy, behavioral ecology, and other subjects. Chief among his research goals is to better understand the many ways insects interact with plants and how such interactions determine the diversity of animal communities.

Tallamy won the Silver Medal from the Garden Writer's Association for his book Bringing Nature Home.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Alicia on November 30, 2019

I loved this book as I started to read it because the author made a convincing point that our wild places like parks are no longer enough to sustain nature and that we must learn to adapt our yards to be a large, somewhat connected habitat for the birds (and thus, bugs that feed them) and pollinator......more

Goodreads review by Paul on March 08, 2020

There are some interesting points made in the book: most of them are best laid out in chapters ten and eleven, where we are given better information and some interesting ideas, along with a summary of, really, the entire book. This makes me wish the book had opened with those chapters, and collected......more

Goodreads review by Sara on July 31, 2021

If you haven't given much thought to how your yard/ landscaping habits interact with the fate of the planet, this is a great informative introduction. If you HAVE thought a lot about native plants and pollinators and microfauna this book doesn't have a whole lot new to add. It's nicely argued for ne......more

Goodreads review by Rebekkah on May 01, 2021

CN: erasure of Indigenous people and minimizing of their effect on the land. This book felt like it could have been a blog post. There was useful and interesting information in it, and some really good perspective-shifting ideas, but it seemed to me that the author wasn’t sure which audience to writ......more

Goodreads review by Tonstant on January 09, 2020

It is so easy to be pessimistic about our planet’s future when Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is vowing to criminalize climate change boycotts and “radical protests” and Trump withdraws from the Paris Climate Agreement. Bees are dying and butterflies are disappearing and our recycling is e......more

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