Personal and inspirational, Wilding is an astonishing account of the beauty and strength of nature, when it is given as much freedom as possible. James Rebanks, author of A Shepherds Life Read Wilding by Isabella Tree. This book tells this vital story and deserves to be widely read. The Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life – all by itself. The Knepp wilding project is a vitally important experiment for working out what we can do to let Nature back into our farmed landscapes.
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. Tree pruning, tree felling, crown thinning, dead wooding, crown lifting. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.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. At Wilding Tree Care, we pride ourselves on being able to offer a full range of. 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. First of all - what are wilding trees Wildings are the natural regeneration, or seedling spread, of introduced trees.
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