Take a journey through some of our planets most spectacular wildlife events and learn how the world works, the origin of life and our place in nature.Why do you think animals exist? What purpose do they serve and why do we need them? Wildlife in the Balance is the untold story of how animals are essential for a habitable planet."Reading this book may change your mind about almost everything. Important beyond compare, utterly engrossing, at once chilling and heartening."

A monumentally positive shift in our relationship with Earth. Yet it's invisible. This book will reveal that real and genuine hope.As animals our brains float above the planet's surface. We were made to be mobile and carry our intelligence with us. A huge leap for mankind is happening right now.Contained within our minds and everything around us is the solution to our anxiety. Ecologist and naturalist Simon Mustoe shows us how to consume a more balanced var...

In this lavishly illustrated book, author, artist and ecologist Simon Mustoe explains the scale and importance of wildlife for a habitable Earth.What will happen to us if animals become extinct? Why do we need to conserve endangered species? These rarely answered questions could be among the most important for us to understand, if we are to survive as a species.It's a fundamental law of nature that wild animals are the most likely lifeforms to minimise ecological chaos, yet...

You are among the last in a long line of animals that were the likeliest to survive half a billion years of evolution. But you couldn't be here todaywithout all other wildlife. Over the past fifty years we've killed three quarters of the creatures we need to keep ecosystems healthy. Now wehave a choice to make: re-find our place among them, or succumb to the power of nature.This easy-to-read popular science book tells the untold story of why wildlife conservation is ou...

The Sunday Times bestseller by David Attenborough, who marks his 100th birthday this year - a deeply personal account of his love of the natural world, and the devastating changes to it he's witnessed first hand.As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild place...

In this inspiring manifesto, an internationally renowned ecologist makes a clear case for why protecting nature is our best health insurance, and why it makes economic sense.

From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP. Yet we take most of Nature's services for granted, imagining them free and limitless...

The Earthshot concept is simple: Urgency + Optimism = Action. We have ten years to turn the tide on the environmental crisis, but we need the world's best solutions and one shared goal - to save our planet.It's not too late, but we need collective action now. The Earthshots are unifying, ambitious goals for our planet which, if achieved by 2030, will improve life for all of us, for the rest of life on Earth, and for generations to come.They...

How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world?All over the world, biodiversity is gravely threatened – by overfishing, habitat destruction, pollution and climate change. Yet life on Earth has previously experienced five episodes of mass extinction, and nature has repeatedly proved itself to be a resilient, regenerative force.In this fascinating book, ecologist Dr. Ken Thompson surveys the Earth's biodiversity, its origins and s...

In this revelatory book, Callum Roberts uses his lifetime's experience working with the oceans to show why they are the most mysterious places on earth, their depths still largely unexplored. In The Ocean of Life we get a panoramic tour beneath the seas: Why do currents circulate the way do? Where exactly do they go? How has the chemistry of the oceans changed? How polluted are we making them? Above all, Roberts reveals the richness of their life, and how it has altered over the c...

**It is accepted wisdom today that human beings have irrevocably damaged the natural world. Yet what if this narrative obscures a more hopeful truth?In Inheritors of the Earth, renowned ecologist and environmentalist Chris D. Thomas overturns the accepted story, revealing how nature is fighting back.**Many animals and plants actually benefit from our presence, raising biological diversity in most parts of the world and increasing the rate at which new species are f...

**WINNER OF THE 2023 BMO WINTERSET AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE 2023 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR NONFICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 SCIENCE WRITERS AND COMMUNICATORS BOOK AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 LANE ANDERSON AWARDFrom the heart of the Labrador Current to the furthest reaches of our global oceans, Message in a Bottle conjures an exquisite diversity of marine life and warns of a central threat to its survival: ocean plastic.**