Twenty years later, their rewilding project on the 3,500-acre Knepp estate is a huge success story – a pioneering project that has inspired dozens of similar enterprises around the UK. In February 2002, Charlie Burrell and his wife Isabella Tree sent a letter to Defra declaring their intent ‘to establish a biodiverse wilderness area in the Low Weald of Sussex’.
Above all, it is a manifesto of hope.Conservationist and writer Isabella Tree, with rescue dog Milo, at Knepp Castle Estate in West Grinstead Jooney Woodward The Book of Wilding is a practical guide and call to action. Rewilding is learning how to contribute to a living landscape, to connect with other areas of nature and help forge the life-support system that will save our planet from calamity and provide humankind with a prosperous and sustainable future.ĭeeply researched and with original illustrations by Jeroen Helmer, Europe’s foremost environmental artist, this book explains why rewilding is important and how every one of us can play a part. Whether you have a garden, roadside verge or window box, there is no space too small. Rewilding is a spectrum of possibility, and everyone is on it. It is inspired by the requests they receive from people wanting to learn how to rewild everything from unprofitable farms, landed estates and rivers, to ponds, allotments, churchyards, urban parks and public spaces. The book has grown out of Isabella and Charlie’s mission to help rewild Britain, Europe and the rest of the world by sharing knowledge from their pioneering project at Knepp in Sussex. It is ambitious, visionary and pragmatic.
The Book of Wilding is a handbook for how we can all help restore nature. And what comes is not just wildlife in super-abundance, but solutions to the other environmental crises we face. Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell know firsthand how spectacularly nature can bounce back if you give it the chance. How can an individual ever make a difference? The enormity of climate change and biodiversity loss can leave us feeling overwhelmed. A blueprint for how to rewild the world around us.
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