Traffication

How Cars Destroy Nature and What We Can Do About It

PAUL F. DONALD

Does for road traffic what Silent Spring did for agrochemicals. Uses the latest research to present a bold new explanation for the drastic loss of wildlife from our countryside.

Offers a final message of hope – with a route to nature recovery.

The trillions of miles we drive each year are just as destructive to our natural environment as any of the better known threats, such as habitat loss or intensive farming. Traffication does for road traffic what Silent Spring did for agrochemicals: awakening us from our collective road-blindness and opening up a whole new chapter in conservation.

PRAISE FOR TRAFFICATION

Mind-blowing. Everyone who cares about nature should read this book. James Rebanks, author of The Shepherd's Life and English Pastoral

Traffication is undoubtedly one of the environmental books of 2023. Mark Cocker, author of Onne Midsummer's Day

A brilliant and comprehensive expose of what roads are doing to our wildlife: meticulous, persuasive, challenging and brilliantly researched. Ben Macdonald, author of Rebirding and Cornerstones

This book gives a well-researched and engagingly written account of what is arguably one of the major conservation issues of our time.

Professor Ian Newton FRS, ornithologist and conservationist

A meticulously-researched exposé of how we've been asleep at the wheel for years.

Dr

Ruth Tingay, conservationist and co-director of Wild Justice

This carefully researched book completely reframes the way that we should view traffic and highlights a blind spot for many conservation organisations. Dr Gary Fuller, author of The Invisible Killer: The Rising Global Threat of Air Pollution

Biographical Note

Paul F. Donald worked in the research department of the RSPB for over twenty years, latterly as Principal Scientist, before moving to BirdLife International as Senior Scientist. He is a recipient of the prestigious ZSL/ Marsh Award for Conservation Science and an Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Cambridge.

30 May 2023

PUBLISHER

DATE

Pelagic Publishing

FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE

Hbk | 9781784274443 | £20.00 | $28.00 eBook available

SIZE

234 x 156 mm

PAGES

294pp

BIC SUBJECTS

WND, RNKH, TV

BISAC SUBJECTS

SOC026020, NAT000000, NAT011000, TEC003000

RIGHTS

World