Emmy-award winning nature documentarian David Allen’s Wilding is a very watchable, beautifully photographed, charming, uplifting story of ecological regeneration.
At Knepp Castle in Sussex, conservation pioneers Isabella Tree and Charlie Burrell abandoned industrial farming practices and allowed nature to ‘rewild’ their 3,500-acre estate with remarkable results.
In a leap of faith, they let nature take back the land, surrendering contemporary preconceptions about landscape, agriculture and the husbandry traditional for historic estates.
Knepp is now home to thriving flora and fauna of all kinds, while Tree and Burrell have evolved into dedicated conservationists – knowledgeable about the catastrophic loss of biodiversity in Britain, yet also hopeful that work like theirs can reverse the decline.