Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer - proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain - the 3500-acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade. Forced 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. 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.
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm (Audio CD / Audio, Unabridged edition)
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