Silent Earth

A powerful book * Mark Cocker, Financial Times *Thoughtful, frightening and yet hugely enjoyable… This book will make you think differently about our right of dominion over the planet * Daily Telegraph *It’s remarkable that insect decline has gone largely unnoticed by non-specialists… Keep dreaming, Dave Goulson. We’ll need more dreamers like you * The Times *If Silent Earth contains a single incontestable message it is that nature - insects, flowers, plants, trees, birds and mammals, including our species - is a single system… This powerful book tells us that we need to act as if we understand this essential truth * Financial Times *Compelling, penetrating, devastating - Silent Earth is a wake-up call for the world. Dave Goulson matches science with eloquence and passion to spotlight the cataclysmic loss of insect life on our planet. Rachel Carson would be proud. – Isabella TreeRead this book, then look and wonder * Sunday Times *Insects are the most vivid expressions of the astounding fact of life in what may be a dead universe. Read this book, then look and wonder. – Bryan Appleyard * Sunday Times *Thoughtful, frightening and yet hugely enjoyable… This book will make you think differently about our right of dominion over the planet. – Joe Shute * Daily Telegraph *Studded with engaging descriptions…[and] a plenitude of practical suggestions… This is a crusading but not a preachy book… I was charmed, enthused, dismayed and grieved by Silent Earth. – Richard Davenport-Hines * The Oldie *His magnum opus. Silent Earth is both a heartfelt letter of love to the insect world that has captivated him from childhood, and a rousing call to arms to counter the recent catastrophic decline in insects before it is too late… Magnificent. – Caroline Sanderson * The Bookseller, Book of the Month *

Dave Goulson is Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex. He has published more than 300 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects. His books include the Sunday Times bestsellers The Garden Jungle and A Sting in the Tale, which was also shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson prize and has been translated into fifteen languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, a trustee of Pesticide Action Network, and an Ambassador for the UK Wildlife Trusts.