Set in Knepp in West Sussex, Isabella Tree’s book relates the story of a successful rewilding project on 1,400 hectares of land that had been exhausted by many years of intensive farming. Plants (including rare ones), birds (some of which are in decline elsewhere) and other animals such as a wide variety of insects, bats and butterflies have returned in a triumphant example of how all is not lost if we only persevere against the obstacles that exist on the road to the regeneration of our natural habitats.
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Set in Knepp in West Sussex, Isabella Tree’s book relates the story of a successful rewilding project on 1,400 hectares of land that had been exhausted by many years of intensive farming. Plants (including rare ones), birds (some of which are in decline elsewhere) and other animals such as a wide variety of insects, bats and butterflies have returned in a triumphant example of how all is not lost if we only persevere against the obstacles that exist on the road to the regeneration of our natural habitats.