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SUMMARY:Rewilding big and small - Isabella Tree
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CONTACT:Diane Lister
DESCRIPTION:How are we going to meet our 30 x 30 commitment – to have fu
 nctioning nature across 30% of our land by 2030? The experiment to rewild 
 3\,500 acres of former arable land at Knepp in West Sussex shows that rewi
 lding has enormous potential both to improve existing areas designated for
  nature\, and create diverse\, dynamic ecosystems on land that\, as yet\, 
 has little value for wildlife. It can also contribute significantly to the
  capture of carbon. The latest findings from Knepp show that\, more than t
 wenty years after the project began\, biodiversity and abundance of life c
 ontinues to rise\, and rare species (including some thought to be extinct 
 in the UK) continue to discover the site. A recent study of soil carbon su
 ggests rewilding could capture as much carbon as a young plantation – in
  the soil alone. Rolling out rewilding – creating biodiversity ‘hotspo
 ts’ and the corridors to connect them – will be one of the most effect
 ive ways of combating climate change and reversing biodiversity loss. The 
 interventions needed to kickstart and sustain natural processes on deplete
 d land will depend\, largely\, on the size of the area. There is no too sm
 all.\n\nIsabella Tree an award-winning journalist and author\, and lives w
 ith her husband\, the conservationist Charlie Burrell\, in the middle of a
  pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex\, on the Knepp Estate. She.is
  the author of six non-fiction books. Her book Wilding\, the story of the 
 ambitious journey she and Charlie undertook to rewild their farm\, has sol
 d over 300\,000 copies worldwide and been translated into 8 languages. It 
 won the Richard Jefferies prize for nature writing\, was shortlisted for t
 he Wainwright prize and was one of the Smithsonian’s top ten science boo
 ks for 2018. In 2020 Isabella was awarded a CIEEM Medal for her contributi
 on to ecology and environmental management\, and in 2021 she received the 
 Royal Geographical Society’s Ness Award. She served on the Mayor of Lond
 on’s 2022/3 Rewilding London Task Force. The Book of Wilding – a pract
 ical guide to rewilding big and small is published by Bloomsbury (2023) an
 d has been described as ‘a handbook of hope’ and ‘an indispensable g
 uide to the restoration of the living planet’.\n\nOnline participants ne
 ed to register via Eventbrite for a Zoom link:\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.c
 o.uk/e/cci-conservation-seminar-isabella-tree-tickets
LOCATION:Babbage Lecture Room - David Attenborough Building\, New Museums 
 Site. Pembroke Street. Cambridge\, Cambridgeshire CB2 3QZ GB
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