The Last Butterflies: A Scientist’s Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature, by Nick Haddad Book of the week: Jules Pretty admires a powerful study of what a declining insect population reveals about how we are treating the planet By Jules Pretty 12 September
Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature Is Thriving in an Age of Extinction, by Chris Thomas Book of the week: Human actions have killed off some species but may be kick-starting new ones, writes Jules Pretty By Jules Pretty 3 August
Messages from Islands: A Global Biodiversity Tour, by Ilkka Hanski From atoll to reef, a coleopterist fears we may not know what we’ve got until it’s gone, says Jules Pretty By Jules Pretty 8 December
A Less Green and Pleasant Land: Our Threatened Wildlife, by Norman Maclean Jules Pretty laments the sad decline and impoverishment of the UK’s natural diversity By Jules Pretty 4 June
