Summary Of Marc Bekoff's Rewilding Our Heart

In Rewilding Our Hearts by Marc Bekoff (2014), he addresses how humans can change their ways to contribute to the restoration of environments damaged by human action or lack thereof. He argues that though there has been a paradigm shift in the ways in which we perceive animals has changed through beginning to see non-human animals as sentient beings (Bekoff 2014, pg. 1), there is still more change that people must become more involved with. And that is to save the ecosystems and provide protection for non-human animals and the environments they live in. Bekoff (2014) presents numerous factors in how we can contribute to a successful rewilding process such as compassion (pg. 4). Douglas’ (2015) also mentions compassion in his list of steps in how to transform society. …show more content…
611). Bekoff (2014) also mentions that caring is a rather important factor in the process. Hence, in order to understand how an animal may feel, humans must place themselves in the positions of these animals and develop perceptions of how animals/wildlife experience their lives and how important their habitat is for their survival. Considerably, this process makes it possible for humans to establish similarities between themselves and non-human animals to develop compassion and feel more inclined to advocate and fight for the restoration and conservation of the environment. However, the development of these characteristics towards the environment can be rather difficult when living in a chaotic