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Rewilding the Sea
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  • Published: 9 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529191950
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
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Rewilding the Sea

How to Save our Oceans

  • Charles Clover
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9 June 2022
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9 June 2022
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A landmark, inspiring book showing that the best way to protect our seas is to stand back and let nature repair the damage, from the Co-founder of Blue Marine Foundation and one of the leading figures in marine conservation.

'Desperately needed' - Isabella Tree

'No more important book published this year' - Stephen Fry

In this indispensable follow up to his acclaimed The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World, Charles Clover chronicles how determined individuals are proving that the crisis in our oceans can be reversed, with benefits for both local communities and entire ecosystems. Rewilding the Sea celebrates what happens when we step aside and let nature repair the damage: whether it is the overfishing of bluefin tuna across the Atlantic, the destruction of coral gardens by dredgers in Lyme Bay or the restoration of oysters on the East Coast of America.

The latest scientific research shows that trawling and dredging create more CO2 than the aviation industry and damage vast areas of our continental shelves, stopping them soaking up carbon. We need to fish in different ways, where we fish at all. We can store carbon and have more fish by stepping aside more often and trusting nature.

Essential and revelatory, Rewilding the Sea propels us to rethink our relationship with nature and reveals that saving our oceans is easier than we think.
  • Published: 9 June 2022
  • ISBN: 9781529191950
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
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Praise for Rewilding the Sea

This book is desperately needed. Interest in terrestrial rewilding is rocketing and now it is time for the sea. The material Charles Clover will be covering is rich, urgent and fascinating. There will be so many people who will be desperate to get behind this book.

Isabella Tree

What if our seas became productive again with giant sturgeon, halibut and skate? What if we let the seas soak up carbon from the atmosphere like the peat bogs instead of battering them with trawls and dredges? It's closer than you think. In fact, as Charles Clover explains, rewilding the sea has already begun.

George Monbiot

I doubt any more important book will be published this year. Charles Clover tells (with spirit and style) an alarming and convincing story, yet it is one that offers hope and a way forward for our beleaguered oceans ... and us.

Stephen Fry

A game-changer! People are hungry for a plan to reverse ocean death so we can keep breathing!

Margaret Atwood, Twitter

Two deadly problems: the climate crisis and biodiversity collapse. One elegant solution: Rewild the ocean.

Sylvia Earle

The Oceans are in a bad state, mainly because of overfishing, but there is hope: the solutions are here.

Daniel Pauly

Save the ocean to help feed the world. From Lyme Bay to Ascension Island, Clover shows how it can be done.

Ted Danson

Abundant oceans are a huge gift we can present to the future. In this terrific book Charles Clover shows how it can be done with actual tales of rebuilding success.

Andrew Sharpless, CEO Oceana

Charles Clover brings a lifetime's commitment to and expertise in environmental causes to this impassioned plea to save our oceans from dereliction. He has been a pioneer in this field and his book should command the attention of everyone who cares about our planet's future.

Simon Heffer

What Charles Clover's inspirational book shows us is that if we replicate just the good decisions we have taken about the ocean we will bring back rare species, enhance the capacity of the ocean to capture carbon and have more fish to catch. In future, we have to protect more of the ocean, but protection will work for everyone.

Lewis Pugh

This uplifting book proves rewilding can fill oceans with teeming life again...powerful...forceful...

Telegraph

Marine conservation successes are at the heart of Charles Clover's latest book.

Financial Times

[An] optimistic manifesto for change...There are so many stories here of nature's titanic powers - if only we give her a chance - that it's ultimately a genuinely optimistic and energising read

Sunday Times

An important, intriguing and informative book' with 'admirable optimism

David Profumo, Spectator

This book is desperately needed. Interest in terrestrial rewilding is rocketing and now it is time for the sea. The material Charles Clover will be covering is rich, urgent and fascinating. There will be so many people who will be desperate to get behind this book.

Isabella Tree

I doubt any more important book will be published this year. Charles Clover tells (with spirit and style) an alarming and convincing story, yet it is one that offers hope and a way forward for our beleaguered oceans ... and us.

Stephen Fry

Unless humanity takes the preservation of living oceans seriously, it will cease to exist, literally. Charles Clover's new book is a game-changer. People are hungry for a plan to reverse ocean destruction.

Margaret Atwood

What if our seas became productive again with giant sturgeon, halibut and skate? What if we let the seas soak up carbon from the atmosphere like the peat bogs instead of battering them with trawls and dredges? It's closer than you think. In fact, as Charles Clover explains, rewilding the sea has already begun.

George Monbiot