Britain was a very different place 15,000 years ago - home to
lions, lynx, bears, wolves, bison and many more megafauna. But as
its climate changed and human populations expanded, most of early
Britain's largest mammals disappeared. Will advances in science and
technology mean that we can one day bring these mammals back? And
should we? In The Missing Lynx, palaeontologist Ross Barnett uses
case studies, new fossil discoveries and biomolecular evidence to
paint a picture of these lost species and to explore the ecological
significance of their disappearance. He discusses how the Britons
these animals shared their lives with might have viewed them and
investigates why some species survived while others vanished.
Barnett also looks in detail at the realistic potential of
reintroductions, rewilding and even of resurrection in Britain and
overseas, from the successful return of beavers in Argyll to the
revolutionary Pleistocene Park in Siberia, which has already seen
progress in the revival of 'mammoth steppe' grassland. As
widespread habitat destruction, climate change and an ever-growing
human population lead us inexorably towards the sixth extinction,
this timely book explores the spaces that extinction has left
unfilled. And by helping us to understand why some of our most
charismatic animals are gone, Ross Barnett encourages us to look to
a brighter future, one that might see these missing beasts returned
to the land on which they once lived and died.
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