Thousands have visited Knepp, including countless. Isabella and Charlie are now working on The Wilding Handbook, due for publication in 2021, and the wilderness that is Knepp has attained a metaphorical voice that is being heard loud and clear. Wilding is part of our Wild Reads project in partnership with Suffolk Wildlife Trust, celebrating the connection between the natural world and the written word.Įnjoyed this title? Let us know what you think on Twitter by tagging and and using the hashtag #WildReads. When the Burrells started Wilding, Isabella described Knepp as ‘a voice in the wilderness’. The Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life – all by itself. Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer - the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade.Įxtremely rare species, including turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, lesser spotted woodpeckers and purple emperor butterflies, are now breeding at Knepp, and populations of other species are rocketing. Isabella Tree’s uplifting story of discovering respect and trust in Nature so she can be helped to reflourish is the paradigm shift needed to begin to rewild the planet.' David Suzuki ' Wilding moved me to tears several times, overcome by the beauty of the rejuvenation it describes, the loss of nature it struggles against, and also by the. Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Treeįorced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp, West Sussex, was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over.
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