The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small

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The aptly named Isabella Tree recounts how she and her husband abandoned intensive farming, which was losing them vast amounts of money despite subsidies, and switched to encouraging biodiversity. More interestingly, in several cases they find that highly threatened species in Britain flourished in new kinds of habitat different from their reported preference, suggesting these kinds of habitats are so rare that species which prefer it are only hanging on by living in suboptimal areas.

Ennek a projektnek a megvalósításához természetesen rengeteg ellenérzést kellett legyőzniük, elsősorban a szomszédok részéről, elképesztő mennyiségű engedélyt és támogatást kellett beszerezniük, de ők győztek. 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. This brilliant book tells us how * Christiana Figueres, former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change * Rewilding has a firm place in my heart and it's great to see it presented as a possibility for everyone, regardless of where they live.An excellent book on the importance of recognising that modern agriculture needs to re-embrace the power of Nature in all aspects of how we live with our environment. Visions of paradise with all the practical advice to make it * Chris Packham * One of the wisest women alive, Isabella Tree has produced a handbook of hope. Successive chapters joyfully recount the mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, insects, fungi, and plants that sprung up once given the chance. Evan Bowen-Jones, chief executive of KWT, said: “Knepp is an iconic project in UK conservation terms now.

The Book of Wilding, co-authored with her husband Charlie Burrell, takes that conversation to the next level. During the WWII, Britain faced severe food shortages and the only way to survive was to increase food production somehow. A recent report says that we have lost 60% of our global wildlife and figures in the UK show this too; we are ranked 29th in the world for biodiversity loss: 56% of species are in decline and 15% are threatened with extinction.Five Years ago, Isabella Tree's phenomenal book Wilding started a national conversation about restoring our flat-lining landscape. For them the idea of national food security, of digging for victory, was an anxiety from a bygone age. Isabella Tree és férje a támogatásokkal együtt is veszteséges West Sussex-i, 3500 angol holdas farmjukat vadították vissza, azaz pontosan megtervezett ökológiai egyensúlyt állítottak vissza ezen a területen. Ensuring that we put things in place to support the natural world will make the world and our own lives a richer place. The Book of Wilding is absolutely brimming with practical information, photographs, illustrations and ideas for rewilding your own space, no matter its size.

But if you take too little” I continued, “the natural fecundity of the herd will mean that over time grazing pressure will grow to outstrip regeneration so that you’ll end up with a kind of Kneppvaardersplassen of overgrazed grass and no trees” (akin to the landscape and habitat of the signature Dutch rewilding project Oostvaardersplassen). To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. These usually have some bearing on the topic at hand, but they're inevitably undermined by this third-hand, only-the-most-interesting-bits game of pop science telephone.

At times, I was itching to take out a copy editor's red pencil, to make sentences or passages clearer.

There are set of online notes linking to the numbered citations in the text should you wish to verify the claims made therein.This book should be required reading, and I hope the lessons learned from it will impact agricultural and environmental policy for the coming decade.