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UK Environment Journalist of the Year Fred Pearce challenges standard attitudes toward invasive species in his book “The New Wild.” Revisiting the literature and interviewing experts, Pearce concludes that in many cases invasive species perform a useful function in colonizing and re-invigorating severely damaged habitats, and that in the long run it may be aggressive, adaptable invasive species that will be “Nature’s Salvation” in our time of global ecological disruption.