And what comes is not just wildlife in super-abundance, but solutions to the other environmental crises we face. How can an individual ever make a difference? Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell know firsthand how spectacularly nature can bounce back if you give it the chance.

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'Important and empowering' - BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Get this great guide and be inspired' - STEPHEN FRY Natural regeneration has been encouraged to create successional habitats.About the Book A blueprint for how to rewild the world around us from two of the world's pioneers of wilding River restoration and wetland creation through ditch blocking, removal of land drains and restoring the floodplain across 78 acres. Internal fencing was removed to allow extensive grazing across the three blocks that make up the project area by herbivores. Sheep and dairy cattle were removed and arable land was taken out of production. The estate also has an extensive volunteer programme, education programme, and wellness programme including yoga. This has improved business for local pubs, shops & B &Bs. It also supports new nature based enterprises, such as high quality meat, camping, glamping, safaris, and business rentals to create a resilient rural economy. It shows that rewilding projects can support established nature reserves and wildlife sites by providing an expansion of habitats and wildlife that will one day connect up on a landscape scale. Knepp demonstrates that low-cost methods of ecological restoration can be highly effective, producing dramatic and profitable results for failing or abandoned farmland. Populations of more common species are rocketing. Extremely rare species such as turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons and purple emperor butterflies are now breeding here. Knepp has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife since rewilding began. Their different grazing preferences are creating a mosaic of habitats - from grassland and scrub to open-grown trees and wood pasture.

They act as proxies for herbivores that would have grazed the land thousands of years ago. Free-roaming grazing animals - cattle, ponies, pigs and deer - drive this process-led regeneration. Knepp’s ethos is to enable natural processes instead of aiming for any particular goals or outcomes. The incredible journey they’ve undertaken is chronicled in the best-selling book Wilding by landowner Isabella Tree. Knepp Castle Estate was once intensively farmed, but since 2001 has been devoted to a pioneering rewilding project.

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