Wildlife in the Balance: Why Animals are Humanity's Best Hope

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Praise for Wildlife in the Balance

“Reading this book may change your mind about almost everything. Important beyond compare, utterly engrossing, at once chilling and heartening.”

Dame Joanna Lumley

“Reading this book may change your mind about almost everything. Important beyond compare, utterly engrossing, at once chilling and heartening.” 

Dame Joanna Lumley.

"We can’t exist without wildlife and the time has come to make sure, WITHOUT FAIL, we don’t lose them. This book shows how it can be done.”

Robyn Williams AO, ABC Science Show

 “Mustoe clearly explains, humans cannot live without 'wild'-life, for we are all subject to the same universal laws of dynamic interdependence and needing each other to survive ... isn't this true joy de vivre?!”

 Professor Richard Banati, University of Sydney

“This book makes it clear that we have to value and respect the role of animals in creating a habitable planet”.        

Leif Cocks, The Orangutan Foundation

 “This book is a rich primer and wondrous feast of information and conceptual clarity that will help people fall in love with nature".  

Dr. Charles Massy author, 'Call of the Reed-Warbler’

"If you want to understand why wildlife matters and has more impact in more ways than you've ever thought possible, you really need to read this book full-stop.”                                                                              

Charlie Moores, Unleashed Podcast

 “This is an important book to read and, more critically, respond to and act upon". 

Ian Dunn, CEO Plantlife International – The Wild Plant Conservation Charity

 "Mustoe’s lively and passionate book highlights the extent to which wildlife drive ecological processes—indeed, how animals, birds and insects create and maintain a livable world."

Judith Schwartz, author of ‘The Reindeer Chronicles’

 "An utterly compelling overview of the importance of animals in the functioning of the living world. This is a hugely important book, and the more widely it is read the better our futures will be!”

Dr Charlie Gardner, Associate Senior Lecturer, Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (University of Kent)