REBIRDING

 PELAGIC PUBLISHING - APRIL 2019
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We face the first mass extinction of birds since before the last Ice Age.  There is no reason to believe that we will have cuckoos, turtle doves or many other charismatic birds for our children to hear and enjoy. We already have the knowledge to bring these birds back - but as yet we're not using it with vision.   
Rebirding lays bare the key reasons driving bird decline in Britain, and what we need to do to rewild our country with wildlife that is rightfully ours.  If you want to save your sparrows, consider watching pelicans over a Somerset marsh or see rural communities thriving in the future, Rebirding' is a book with new ideas, humour - and a vision.

 ORCHARD

HARPER COLLINS - AUGUST 2020
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ORCHARD - Hardcover.
Thousands of years after our natural wood pastures vanished, orchards took up the task of preserving woodland wildlife.  For centuries, teeming birds, mammals, insects and reptiles moved into, and thrived, in Britain's orchards.   Today, these critical habitats are on the verge of being grubbed out forever - or sprayed into oblivion.
Co-written with Nicholas Gates, over four years of fieldwork, this book celebrates Britain's orchards through a painstaking record of life in just one - an ancient cider orchard deep in the Malverns.  From woodpeckers to dormice, redstarts to polecats, our detailed record aims to inspire people to save and cherish orchards for good.

CORNERSTONES

BLOOMSBURY - ​JULY 2022

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Eurasian Lynx - one of the UK's missing keystone species that will feature in Cornerstones.
The Sixth Mass Extinction is a current biological event, affecting not only the planet as a whole but, more than most countries, the very island on which we live.  From the once familiar hedgehog - now scheduled for extinction by 2025 - to the almost-vanished turtle dove and the 35 remaining wildcats in Britain, extinction is coming - fast.
Cornerstones celebrates twelve species even more important than most - ecological architects and 'cornerstone' species on which the very natural history of Britain depends.  From the crucial actions of beavers and boar to the little seen role of the sand-eel, Cornerstones celebrates those animals just too important to lose.