This was not an easy book to read Aot of it was a long rant full of rather extreme polemic, to the point of factual inaccuracy, but in between there were through provoking and interesting chapters.
His habbit of writing long rambling footnotes (apparently encouraged by the publisher!) didn't help, and the individual chapters sometimes read as separate essays without much connection to the chapters before or after. There is also quite a lot of repetition (how many times does he tell us where he lives?), which is a bit irritating.
Some ideas are more bizarre than others. The proposal that everyone working in nature conservation should only be paid mi imum wage isn't very friendly towards those of them with families to support, for example.
But there are good points. The reintroduction programme of black grouse on the Sallandseheuvelrug is indeed barmy. Blaming predators for the demise of other species is not good science. Sawing down trees to create dead wood is just daft and it was interesting to discover that it doesn't work as well. Seeing the value of some exotic species also has a lot to say for it.
In the end, a book well worth reading, and it could form a basis for some interesting discussions.