![]() ![]() The description for this important book begins, "In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade that once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his new book called Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter, award-winning environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb carefully shows why killing beavers is so often ecologically unsound. Regardless of their incredible importance to the health of various ecosystems, beavers have been decimated by humans using horrific methods. I've seen them on a number of occasions and enjoy watching them go about their daily activities. They are buck-toothed, paddle-tailed checks on our smug sense of human supremacy."īeavers are amazing and under appreciated animals. "Beavers are a reminder of how much we don’t know about animal minds, how complex wild behaviors can be, how much agency our fellow creatures still possess. ![]()
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