Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm - Isabella Tree - 2019 (Nonfiction) [Audiobook] (miok) [WWRG]

Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm - Isabella Tree - 2019



By: Isabella Tree
Narrated by: Isabella Tree
Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 07-03-19
Language: English
Genre: Nonfiction, Animals & Nature
Publisher: Macmillan Digital Audio
Format: mp3 64/22.05 stereo

Summary

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. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.

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. Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer - proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain - the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade.

Extremely rare species, including turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, lesser spotted woodpeckers and purple emperor butterflies, are now breeding at Knepp, and populations of other species are rocketing. The Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life - all by itself.

Personal and inspirational, Wilding is an astonishing account of the beauty and strength of nature, when it is given as much freedom as possible.

©2018 Isabella Tree (P)2018 Macmillan Digital Audio

Critic reviews

"The remarkable story of an astounding transformation." (George Monbiot, author of Feral)







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