“Emma Marris, the author of Rambunctious Garden (RG), loves the nature hiding in back street alleys and along the highway median strip. The following excerpt of a reader’s review of Marris’s book found on is typical of the criticism: Despite her cautious approach, she has been subjected to intense criticism from both academics and practitioners of invasion biology. She implied that these projects were futile as well as artificial, but she was not explicitly critical. She described unsuccessful efforts to eradicate non-native plants and animals as well as extreme attempts to “rewild” that are often a mishmash of plant and animal species from different native ranges and time periods. Marris visited “restoration” projects all over the world.

The first book to be published in 2011- Rambunctious Garden by Emma Marris (2)-was timid in its approach in comparison to The New Wild. Each book has been progressively more pointed in its criticism of this ideology, masquerading as a scientific discipline. These are the assumptions that underlie invasion biology. He discusses, too, whether our fears could be getting in the way of conserving biodiversity, and responding to the threat of climate change.The New Wild by Fred Pearce (1) is the third book to be published in three years which challenges the conventional wisdom that native species are inherently superior to non-native species and the closely related corollary assumption that all non-native species are competitors of native species. Ken Thompson puts forward a fascinating array of narratives to explore what he sees as the crucial question - why only a minority of introduced species succeed, and why so few of them go on to cause trouble. We have all heard the horror stories of invasives, from Japanese knotweed that puts fear into the heart of gardeners to brown tree snakes that have taken over the island of Guam.īut do we need to fear invaders? And indeed, can we control them, and do we choose the right targets? This is a classic example of the contradictions of 'native' and 'invasive' species, a hot issue right now, as the flip-side of biodiversity.

They evolved in North America, retain their greatest diversity in South America, and the only remaining wild dromedaries are in Australia. Where do camels belong? In the Arab world may seem the obvious answer, but they are relative newcomers there.

Where do camels belong book