4.5
Biografier
In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.
Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize.
This audio edition is read by the author, Isabella Tree.
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. Thanks to the introduction of free roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer – proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain – the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade.
Extremely rare species, including turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, lesser spotted woodpeckers and purple emperor butterflies, are now breeding at Knepp, and populations of other species are rocketing. The Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life – all by itself.
Personal and inspirational, Wilding is an astonishing account of the beauty and strength of nature, when it is given as much freedom as possible.
Highly Commended by the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize.
© 2019 Picador (Ljudbok): 9781529007954
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 7 mars 2019
4.5
Biografier
In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the ‘Knepp experiment’, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.
Winner of the Richard Jefferies Society and White Horse Book Shop Literary Prize.
This audio edition is read by the author, Isabella Tree.
Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. Thanks to the introduction of free roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer – proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain – the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade.
Extremely rare species, including turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, lesser spotted woodpeckers and purple emperor butterflies, are now breeding at Knepp, and populations of other species are rocketing. The Burrells’ degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life – all by itself.
Personal and inspirational, Wilding is an astonishing account of the beauty and strength of nature, when it is given as much freedom as possible.
Highly Commended by the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize.
© 2019 Picador (Ljudbok): 9781529007954
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 7 mars 2019
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Alexander
29 maj 2021
Många har klimatångest och undrar vad vi kan göra. Här är en, av säkerligen flera, men en lätt, tydligt fungerande lösning som går att skala upp. Återförvilda landskap, låt naturen vara natur, och se vilken skillnad det kan göra. Mångfalden av positiva effekter av detta är ju nästan för bra för att vara sann. Men egentligen är ju naturen bättre än vad mänskligheten förtjänar. Underbar bok. Definitivt värd att lyssna på.
Ioana
15 aug. 2022
It gets five stars because it was amazing to discover how Knepp has transformed. It offered me a different perspective on subsidized farming and what the consequences turn out to be in terms of economy and nature. It was also eye opening to hear how people reacted to changing their neighboring landscape and how long it took for the situation to settle down. The historical aspects were even more enganging, particularly the idea that we set recent standards for natural resources and we fail to see or perceive that those standards might not be the actual standard, but just a constraint moment in a species’ life. All in all, a splendid endeavor and lovely recounting of it.
Jennie
11 sep. 2021
En fantastisk skildring, en bok för bönder skriven av bönder. En storbonde med 1400 hektar som i räkenskaperna upptäckte att trotts ständig expansion och effektivisering och jagande av bidrag så kom aldrig lönsamheten.Det som producerades sjönk i pris medan kostnaderna ökade snabbare än expansionen kunde täcka trotts att de fasta kostnaderna spreds på fler hektar och större volymer.Vad vi producerar och varför vi tycker och tänker som vi gör har ofta långa historiska förklaringar som åtminstone sträcker sig tillbaka till krigsåren men ofta längre än så, ofta har vi influerats av företag som säljer en mirakelkur eller av statens bidrag eller av olika identitetsbyggande kampanjer.
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