Living with Lynx

This book explores a crucial and controversial issue in conservation and rewilding in Britain and Ireland: the potential return of lynx, wolves, and bears. The author takes readers on a journey through history, across the globe, and into the future to investigate this complex topic. He delves into human emotions surrounding the reintroduction of large carnivores, exploring both his personal feelings and the wider societal divisions on the subject. Drawing from his expertise on snow leopards and farming, the author examines how coexistence with these predators might unfold.

Throughout the book, we meet a diverse range of people, from farmers and rewilders to others caught in between, revealing that living with large carnivores is as much about sharing landscapes with humans as it is about sharing them with wildlife. Living with Lynx is the first comprehensive work to address this issue, featuring more than 50 interviews from seven countries. It provides a compelling, in-depth exploration of a pressing topic, with significant implications for the future of nature conservation, farming, and the countryside. Richly personal, detailed, and unflinching, this book offers new perspectives on a rapidly evolving debate.

“A well thought-through and useful book that examines the contentious topic of large carnivore reintroductions with considerable insight.”
—Derek Gow, author of Bringing Back the Beaver