5/13/2023 0 Comments Rewilding sussex book![]() Knepp, too, was among the first great stretches of British countryside to rewild - and it’s by far the most famous rewilding project. It helps, too, that Knepp is in the prosperous southeast of England, with plenty of nearby, well-off holidaymakers to take wildlife safaris on the estate. The new obsession with rewilding is part of the misguided Manichean view that nature is beautiful and anything done by man is ugly There is plenty of human intervention needed to keep the balance of nature going in a supposedly wild estate. There are even White Storks nesting in the trees.īut, as the Burrells, who own Knepp, openly say, those White Storks were introduced to the estate by their intervention. Nightingales have returned, accompanied by clouds of Purple Emperor butterflies. I’ve been to Knepp and it is indeed glorious. Eustice referred warmly to the poster boy of rewilding, the Knepp estate in West Sussex. But it’s a little more complicated than that. It sounds like a wonderful idea - a return to a glorious, prelapsarian wilderness. ![]() ![]() ![]() In place of the old EU subsidies, farmers will be rewarded by the government for how much they care for the environment. The government has gone wild. Under new plans, just announced by Environment Secretary George Eustice, farmers and landowners in England could be paid to turn large areas of land into nature reserves and restore floodplains. ![]()
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