The book 'Wildlife in Rotterdam. Nature in the City' is a small history of urban ecology and an ode to the resilience of nature. with infectious gusto Jelle Reumer speculates about urban nature in the future and signposts the astonishing evolutions taking place every day under our citifed noses. Tomatoes sprouting from tramlines, swans building nests of plastic bottles, subway mosquitoes that never leave their underground lair: the city is a miraculous cradle of wildlife.


Jelle Reumer is Director of the Natutal History Museum in Rotterdam and Professor of Earth Sciences in the University of Utrecht.

/ Also published in Dutch

The book 'Wildlife in Rotterdam. Nature in the City' is a small history of urban ecology and an ode to the resilience of nature. with infectious gusto Jelle Reumer speculates about urban nature in the future and signposts the astonishing evolutions taking place every day under our citifed noses. Tomatoes sprouting from tramlines, swans building nests of plastic bottles, subway mosquitoes that never leave their underground lair: the city is a miraculous cradle of wildlife.


Jelle Reumer is Director of the Natutal History Museum in Rotterdam and Professor of Earth Sciences in the University of Utrecht.

/ Also published in Dutch