Rewilding book knepp5/27/2023 If we build these homes, then basically Knepp becomes yet another island. Knepp is a biodiversity hotspot and, at the moment, our species are spilling out into the countryside and green spaces around us. “If wildlife can’t move in response to temperature rises, then it’s doomed to extinction. “It’s looking more and more likely that the site closest to us – the one right on our border – will be the one they could go for,” said Isabella Tree, co-owner of the Knepp estate and author of Wilding, a book about how she turned the former farm’s depleted, loss-making land into the site of the largest rewilding experiment in lowland England.Īs many as 3,500 new homes could be built on the greenfield site known as Buck Barn, which Tree says would shut off a key route for wildlife to move in and out of the estate as climate change occurs. Several major sites being considered for development in a draft local plan by Horsham district council will “devastate” the important rewilding project, campaigners say, blocking off any potential to create a vital, protected wildlife corridor linking the estate with the St Leonard’s and Ashdown forests. But the future of this 1,400-hectare (3,500-acre) estate near Horsham – which, in just 20 years, has been utterly transformed by nature into one of most important sites for wildlife in the UK – is now under threat, campaigners say.
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