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A couple gave up on a failing 3,500-acre Sussex farm. Nearly 25 years later, it became Britain's most famous rewilding success

In the early 2000s, Charlie Burrell and his wife Isabella Tree faced a difficult choice. After seventeen years of trying to farm 3,500 acres of heavy clay soil at Knepp Castle Estate in West Sussex, they were roughly 1.5 million pounds in debt, with intensive farming simply failing to turn…

The Times of India

Friday essay: can rewilding offer us a brighter, greener future?

I’ve been fortunate to dive in Tasmania’s giant kelp forests over the past three decades, launching into chilly waters. When diving in these forests, light filters through the golden ribbon-like fronds in beams, lighting the array of fish that sail through like birds in a rainforest. On the seabed, pearlescent…

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A couple gave up on a failing Sussex farm, pulled out the fences and let 3,500 acres go feral; it became the template for British rewilding

A British farm, once burdened by debt, became a successful rewilding project. Free-roaming herbivores were introduced to restore the land's natural processes. Bird and butterfly populations significantly increased after the rewilding efforts began. This project demonstrates that damaged land can recover within a human lifetime. Similar initiatives are now underway…

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Call for more ‘truly wild’ areas to show how nature-rich UK could be

Some rewilding sites are amazing experts and the public with how much wildlife they support, backers of projects say.

Evening Standard

‘It makes your heart sing’: can a pioneering project show that rewilding really works?

The long read: Intensive farming has all but destroyed England’s ancient woodlands and freshwater wetlands. On a farm in Lincolnshire a radical aristocrat hopes to show there’s money in protecting nature

The Guardian - UK

‘A toad is a perfect tenner’: experts recommend wild candidates for new banknotes

Animals will feature on £5, £10, £20 and £50 notes, the Bank of England says, but which creatures should make the cut?

The Guardian - UK

‘What do we want gardens to sound like?’ It began with a frog pond – then suburban rewilding became an obsession

Wild gardening is about shedding obsessions with tidiness, embracing a looser aesthetic and providing a home for ‘the most important creatures on the planet’

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‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement

At Maple Farm, nature is returning in droves: nightingales, grass snakes, slowworms, bats and insects. All due to the vision of a group determined to accelerate its recovery

The Guardian - UK

Rare butterfly hits purple patch at Sussex rewilding project

Ecologists say 283 purple emperor recordings on one day at Knepp signal higher numbers nationwide

The Guardian - UK

Going wild in the UK — Listen to The Standard podcast

Discover why nature tourism can be such a life-enhancing experience in the second episode of our new sustainable travel podcast series

Evening Standard

Conservationist Isabella Tree: ‘Rewilding is vital for the UK’s agricultural future’

The farmer and author on allowing nature to transform and restore our ecology – and how the best way to measure progress is through dung beetles

The Guardian - UK

Wilding author Isabella Tree calls Baillie Gifford boycott a 'cheap jibe'

The rewilding pioneer was at the launch of a new documentary based on her book

Evening Standard

Wilding review – farmland returns to nature in green and leafy conservation study

Mapping the regeneration of over-farmed and polluted land given over to the wild in 2000, this is a welcome story about nature’s ability to just get on with it

The Guardian - UK

‘We sold everything off, even the semen flasks’: the film about the farming couple who struck gold by rewilding

Knepp estate was £1.5m in debt. Now it thrums with wildlife, visitors flock there – and farmers are stampeding to copy its success. We meet the star of a captivating film about this amazing rebirth

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‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming

Biodiversity campaigner Isabella Tree says wild areas work ‘hand in glove’ with food production as her Sussex estate boasts return of endangered species

The Guardian - UK

‘The trees are trying to tell us things’: the ecologist championing Britain’s ancient forests

Ted Green, a conservation adviser to the crown estate at Windsor, has a provocative take on our ‘living heritage’

The Guardian - UK

From window boxes to farms, UK’s rewilding gurus bring out their bible

Ideas from the Knepp estate in West Sussex – home to beavers, turtle doves and purple emperors – can be used in the smallest spaces, its owners say

The Week

Pony spit helps your rose bushes ‘go crazy’

Pony spit is the key to “sprucing up your garden”, an expert has told The Times. Isabella Tree, who runs the Knepp estate in West Sussex, said that animal saliva was the secret to growing fuller rose bushes. “If you collect some animal saliva, even if it’s pony spit or…

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Government poised to scrap nature ‘Brexit bonus’ for farmers

Defra accused of ‘all-out attack’ on environment by wildlife groups

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How Sussex farmers plan to rewild a nature-rich green corridor to the sea

Weald to Waves project aims to boost biodiversity by rewilding land as part of government ‘landscape recovery’ pilot scheme

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Knepp estate: why the king and queen of rewilding are farming again after 20 years

Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree were pioneers of rewilding in the UK. Now they are setting their sights on regenerative agriculture, which will supply food to a new farm shop and cafe

The Guardian - UK

Gabriela Hearst visualises ‘climate success’ in Chloé show

Environmentally conscious collection is inspired by British conservationist Isabella Tree

The Guardian - UK

A growing revolution: new ways of using the land

From providing food to those in need to transforming public land, gardens have more uses than ever. Here, we look at some of the new ways old skills are being applied to benefit everyone

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