In less than twenty years their degraded land has become a functioning ecosystem again, wildlife has rocketed and numerous endangered species have made Knepp their home.
Isabella will tell the story of the daring wildlife experiment she and her husband, conservationist Charlie Burrell, began in 2000: rewilding their 3,500 acres of unprofitable farmland at Knepp Estate in West Sussex. Rewilding: the return of nature - a talk by Isabella Tree Highly Commended by the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize.The Winter Lectures 2022 will take place online via Zoom. Personal and inspirational, Wilding is an astonishing account of the beauty and strength of nature, when it is given as much freedom as possible. 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 - proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain - 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. Winner of t he Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize.įorced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp 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. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope. In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. 'A poignant, practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land, this should be conservation's salvation this should be its future this is a new hope' - Chris Packham
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