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Wilding

Isabella Tree

What happens when farmland is handed back to roaming animals and wild plants instead of being managed tightly?

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Isabella Tree

Why read it

  • You will see how wildlife can return to worn out land when you step back and let animals reshape it
  • You will learn to trust patient observation over tidy theory when managing a living system
  • You will understand how people who first resented a wild looking landscape can come to like it as it matures

Who it is for

  • Landowners and farmers weighing alternatives to intensive farming
  • Nature lovers who want hope that damage can be reversed
  • Anyone who manages land, even a garden

Contents

  1. Epigraph page
  2. Timeline
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Meeting a Remarkable Man under a Remarkable Tree
  5. 2. At Odds with Everything
  6. 3. The Serengeti Effect
  7. 4. The Secret of Grazing Animals
  8. 5. A World of Wood Pasture
  9. 6. Wild Ponies, Pigs and Longhorn Cattle
  10. 7. Creating a Mess
  11. 8. Living with the Yellow Peril
  12. 9. Painted Ladies and the Perfect Storm
  13. 10. Purple Emperors
  14. 11. Nightingales
  15. 12. Turtle Doves
  16. 13. Rewilding the River
  17. 14. Bringing Back the Beaver
  18. 15. Pasture-fed
  19. 16. Rewilding the Soil
  20. 17. The Value of Nature
  21. Appendix: Knepp Wildland Advisory Board

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