Wilding

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"For many years Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell struggled to make a go as farmers, doing everything they could to make the heavy clay soils of their farm at Knepp in West Sussex as productive as possible, while rarely succeeding in making a profit. By 2000, facing bankruptcy, the couple decided they would try something new. They would restore their 3,500 acres, farmed for centuries, even millennia, to the form that they had had before human intervention. They would bring back the wild. This was no simple matter. What form did the land have before it took on the form that human beings have given it? The answer to that question was controversial and required real, and fascinating, research. And then the land had once been open to whole hosts of animals that had since been prevented from running wild, if not killed off or made extinct. These had been a crucial actor in the landscape and its ecology, and how were they, or their likes, to be reintroduced into it? And finally there were the neighbors, often appalled at the sight of once tidy fields now running riot with what they considered dangerous weeds. The experiment however, was a success. With minimal human intervention, and with herds of free-roaming animals stimulating new habitats, Knepp is now full of new life. Rare species such as turtle doves, peregrine falcons and purple emperor butterflies breed there. The fabled English nightingale, heard less and less in modern times, sings again"--

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Wilding

Rating: 5 / 5 | Prijs: € 11.99

The most inspirational book ive read in years in every chapter new species return caitlin moran on twitter winner of the richard jefferies society and white horse book shop literary prize highly commended by the wainwright golden beer book prize in wilding isabella tree tells the story of th Uiterlijk 5 december in huis .. MEER INFO

Wilding The return of nature to a British farm

Rating: 5 / 5 | Prijs: € 17.39

Wilding tells the story of a remarkable experiment the rewilding of the knepp estate in west sussex the restoration of natural ecological processes and the stunning recovery of flora and fauna a poignant practical and moving story of how to fix our broken land this should be conservation s Uiterlijk 5 december in huis .. MEER INFO

Wilding

Rating: 5 / 5 | Prijs: € 11.99

An inspiring story about what happens when 3 500 acres of land farmed for centuries is left to return to the wild and about the wilder richer future a natural landscape can bring for years charlie burrell and his wife isabella tree farmed knepp castle estate and struggled to turn a profit by Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 17 september 2019

Aantal pagina's: 392

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Isabella Tree

Hoofduitgeverij: The New York Review Of Books, Inc

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 146 mm

Product hoogte: 22 mm

Product lengte: 215 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 143 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm

Verpakking lengte: 213 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 583 g

EAN: 9781681373713

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