Living with Lynx

Sharing Landscapes with Big Cats, Wolves and Bears

By: Jonny Hanson

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Hardcover | 12 May 2025

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280 Pages

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22.3 x 14.4 x 2.7

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This book investigates a vital and controversial question for conservation and rewilding in Britain and Ireland: could and should we learn to live with lynx, wolves and bears again? We travel back in time, around the world and into the future to explore this contested topic. The author delves deep into the human psyche, considering not only his own mixed feelings about large carnivore reintroductions but also why people have such polarised perspectives on top predators. He brings his unique combination of expertise on snow leopards - and their relationship with humans - along with his experience as a farmer to illustrate the discussion.

Along the way, we meet a cast of characters from across society, including farmers, rewilders and everyone in between. It becomes clear that coexistence is as much about sharing landscapes with each other as it is about sharing them with wildlife. The first book to tackle this subject in detail, based on more than 50 interviews in/from seven countries, Coexistence will be of relevance to anyone with an interest in the future of nature, farming and the countryside. Personal, detailed, unflinching and engaging, it will add a great deal to this rapidly evolving debate.

Industry Reviews

Nuffield scholar Jonny Hanson has achieved the best analysis I have read on reintroductions in a genuinely unbiased way... Dr Hanson has established himself as an authoritative voice in Nature conservation. -- Jamie Blackett * Country Life * This is a thought-provoking book... Part memoir, part travelogue, it is also a philosophical investigation of the interactions between large carnivores and people. -- Fi Martynoga * Scottish Forestry * ...the author covers important ground, from a highly informed perspective... -- Dr Chris Gibson * BNA Bulletin * The book is bristling with ideas, observations, opinions and advice, and this is done with a certain flair... well worth buying for its breath and readability. -- D. Paddy Sleeman * The Irish Naturalists' Journal *

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