Islas del abandono

This book is a beautiful exploration of places where nature flourishes in our absence. Some of the world's only truly feral cattle roam a long-abandoned island in the far north of Scotland. A variety of wildlife that has not been seen for a long time has re-emerged on the irradiated sites of Chernobyl. In the narrow demilitarized zone of the Korean peninsula, a lush forest is home to thousands of species extinct or endangered elsewhere. Flyn visits the darkest and most desolate places on Earth that, due to war, catastrophe, disease or economic decline, have been abandoned by humans. What he finds each time is an "island" of new life: nature has rushed to fill the void faster and deeper than scientists' most optimistic projections. Islands of Abandonment is a journey through these new ecosystems, as places of unexpected environmental importance, where the natural world has reaffirmed its wild power.