Deeply reported and persuasively told, Roam is a gorgeous testament to the habitats that sustain life on earthand the power and promise of protecting them. An inspiring and necessary read. Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
What if saving our home planet starts with giving other species space to roam? How can we re-shape our human-built landscapes to serve both people and wildlife?
These are the questions that Hillary Rosner attempts to answer in Roam, an urgent quest to figure out how to stitch our fragmented planet back together. Its about the people trying to reconstruct landscapes where animals can once again move freely, as they did for millennia. Its about reconnecting Earth so that wild species and natural systems have room to adapt and thrive. It's about seeing wildlife as the guides we need to lead us to adapt to climate change.
Humans have always altered the landscapes around us; in some ways its part of what defines us as a species. But since the middle of the last century, weve changed the Earth on an overwhelming scale. Our infrastructure, our hunger for resources, our methods of farming and traveling and livingall these have rendered our planet inhospitable for the other species that live here. As a result, all over the globe, animals are strandedby roads, fences, drainage systems, industrial farms, cities. They simply cannot move around to access their daily needs. Yet as climate change reshapes the planet in its own ways, many creatures will, increasingly, have to move in order to survive.
This book illustrates a massive and underreported problem: how a completely human-centered view of the world has impacted the ability of other species to move around. But its also about solutions, and hope: How we can forge new links between landscapes that have become isolated pieces. How we can stitch ecosystems back together, so that the processes still work, and the systems can evolve as they need to. How we can build a world in which humans recognize their interconnectedness with the rest of the planet, and view other species with empathy and compassion.
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"With a blend of clarity, compassion, and journalistic rigor, Roam is a powerful read for people who care deeply about our environment and the fragile connection between humans and animals." 5280 Magazine
"This beautiful and thoughtful book by Hillary Rosner not only outlines the problem but also offers solutions and hope how humans can coexist with other species on this fractured planet and help stitch ecosystems back together." Future of Good
Well-researched and thought-provoking. Washington Independent Review of Books
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Introduction: The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (New York City)
Chapter One: Paving (and Flooding Paradise): The Science Behind Connectivity
(Colorado's Front Range)
Chapter Two: The Linear Path: How Species Move (and Why Understanding it
Matters) (Montreal and South Carolina)
Chapter Three: The Matrix: Creating Climate Corridors so Animals Can Move
(Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula)
Chapter Four: Entering the Agave Corridor: Connecting Bats, Plants, and
People (Central and Northern Mexico)
Chapter Five: A Wilder Europe: Bears, Rewilding, and the Beauty of
Coexistence (Italy's Apennines and Trentino)
Chapter Six: A Fence Runs Through It: How Fences Make Us Bad Neighbors
(Wyoming's Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem)
Chapter Seven: The Carnivore Among Us: Coyotes and the Urban Wilds (New York
City and Long Island)
Chapter Eight: Corridors of Injustice: How We Treat Each Other is How We
Treat the World (Los Angeles and North Carolina)
Chapter Nine: Hidden Connections: In the Everglades, Water is Everything
(Florida's Everglades)
Chapter Ten: The Time Is Now: Elephants and the Gullies of Kenya (Northern
Kenya)
Chapter Eleven: The Missing Link: Toads, Caribou, and Us (Colorado and
British Columbia)
Epilogue: The Power of Bearing Witness (Iceland)
Hillary Rosner is a science journalist and editor. She has reported on the environment from across the U.S. and around the world for publications including National Geographic, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, Mens Journal, Scientific American, bioGraphic, Undark, Nautilus, Mother Jones, Popular Science, High Country News, The Boston Globe, The Denver Post, OnEarth, Audubon, Smithsonian, Slate, and Grist. Her work has won two AAAS-Kavli Awards and others from the Society of Environmental Journalists and the National Association of Science Writers. She's been a Ted Scripps Fellow, a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, and an Alicia Patterson Fellow. She's a frequent speaker at workshops and seminars on science communication and loves teaching scientists how to write about their own work. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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