Knepp Wildland / Isabella Tree
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Why Florian Guillaume recommends Knepp Wildland / Isabella Tree
“They let a worn-out farm go wild, and the turtle doves and nightingales came back. That story changed how I think about land.”
Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell turned their 3,500-acre conventional farm in West Sussex into Britain's most celebrated rewilding experiment. After years of financial losses trying to farm heavy clay soil, they removed fences, reintroduced free-roaming cattle, pigs, Exmoor ponies and deer, and let nature take over. Within years: turtle doves returned (species on verge of UK extinction), purple emperor butterflies, nightingales, peregrine falcons. Tree wrote 'Wilding' (2018), which
- Place
- Dorset, United Kingdom
- Recommended by
- Florian Guillaume
- Collections
- Climate Action · Education & Work · Living Legends
