Evening Lecture held on 8 July, 2021.
In year 2000, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell decided to turn their unprofitable 3,500-acre farm in West Sussex over to an experimental rewilding project. In less than a decade their degraded land became a functioning ecosystem again, wildlife has rocketed and numerous endangered species have made Knepp their home. What has happened at Knepp challenges conventional ideas about nature, wildlife and how we manage and envisage our land. It also, excitingly, provides solutions for some of the most pressing challenges we face – climate change, soil loss, water storage, air and water pollution, flooding, and human mental and physical health.
Isabella Tree is an award-winning journalist and author of five books, married to the conservationist Charlie Burrell. Her latest best-selling book Wilding tells the story of the daring wildlife experiment they began in 2000: rewilding their 3,500 acres of unprofitable farmland at Knepp Estate in West Sussex, UK.
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