The Accidental Ecosystem: People and Wildlife in American Cities

The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities-the most artificial and human-dominated of all Earth's ecosystems-grown rich with wildlife, even as wildlife has declined in most of the rest of the world? And what does this para...