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Fall of the wild: why pristine wilderness is a human-made myth

Even ‘untouched’ natural landscapes bear witness to millennia of human influence, a lyrical book argues — with implications for how we seek to rewild them.
  1. Douglas H. Erwin

    1. Douglas H. Erwin is a palaeobiologist at the National Museum of Natural History, Washington DC.

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Mongolian Kazak eagle hunter galloping on his horse, with his golden eagle on his right arm, its wings open among the mountains.

A hunter with his horse and golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) in Mongolia. Credit: K. Neville/Getty

Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back Sophie Yeo HarperNorth (2024)

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Nature 632, 974-975 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02761-3

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