Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm

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A thrilling, inspiring and deeply moving story of a wildlife revolution on an ordinary English farm, Wilding shows us what we have lost and what we could regain if we change our relationship with the countryside. Even though as a child I often complained about being dragged away from my books to see a meadow of orchids. And as she described that work, I was picturing their land as a dairy farm similar to the ones I grew up near: big, rural fields in the country, with a small farmhouse near the sheds and dairy barns on the road. Ranked twenty-ninth lowest out of 218 countries, we are among the most nature-depleted countries in the world. children who spent time in green spaces between the ages of seven and twelve tend to think of nature as magical.

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Isabella and her husband Charlie Burrell have also introduced Exmoor ponies, longhorn cattle, red deer and Tamworth pigs which are allowed to roam free on their aristocratic estate. Isabella’s lively and evocative biography reveals a story of discovery, ambition and betrayal – touching on some of the greatest wonders of the Victorian era, from the arrival of the first giraffe in London to Gould’s exploration of Australia and his crucial role in Darwin’s theory of natural selection. It also suggests that the agricultural sector can evolve to support rather than undermine the environment.At a moment when the future of our countryside hangs in the balance, Isabella Tree helps us understand how we become locked in by our personal experience and perspectives. The thing Tree never mentions is that her husband's family are traditional aristocrats, and the land they are rewilding is their estate.

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The possibilities of rewilding are spectacular and I can only hope this book inspires other farmers to give it a try. The results are staggering and challenge some fundamental assumptions that often guide even the most well-meaning of conservation or ecological decisions. The great concerns of our time - climate change, natural resources, food production, water control and conservation, and human health - all boil down to the condition of the soil. It is an opportunity for nature unprecedented in modern history – if only we can overcome our deepest prejudices about what our land should look like.Isabella Tree és férje a támogatásokkal együtt is veszteséges West Sussex-i, 3500 angol holdas farmjukat vadították vissza, azaz pontosan megtervezett ökológiai egyensúlyt állítottak vissza ezen a területen. Clearly, there is a limited amount that one person living in an urban environment can do to affect the national state of the land, but it does require individuals to make some decisions and this book is a huge encouragement to show you what could happen if enough people made those decisions and if government etc.

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Here’s the project in a nutshell: “Knepp is a casualty of a global process of extraordinary rises in agricultural productivity and the resulting abandonment of marginal land. I have been to Knepp on several occasions and spoken with both Isabella and Charlie and their passion for rewilding is amazing. 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. Managed with minimal human intervention, and with herds of free-roaming animals driving the creation of new habitats, their rewilded land is now heaving with life. Isabella travels into the heart of indigenous Mexico, amongst Mayan shamans in war-torn Chiapas, the peaceful lake-dwelling Purepecha of Michoacan, the powerful matriarchs of Pacific Juchitan and the princely Huichol peyoteros of the northern Sierra Madre.The only problem with the book, and the reason I'm giving it three stars instead of four, is that in lieu of personal reflections, Tree pads the book with summaries of other pop science books she's read. Forced from intensive farming, Isabella Tree and her husband give their 3,500 acres at Knepp Estate back to nature. Featuring essays by Patrick Barkham, Tim Flannery, Cal Flyn, Jessie Greengrass, Caoilinn Hughes, Amy Leach, Dino J.