FOR THE FIRST TIME since we started rewilding, in 2000, I sensed my husband, Charlie’s, resolve beginning to waver. Letters from neighbors were reaching a crescendo of outrage. Over the nine years ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. WEST SUSSEX, UNITED KINGDOM. JUNE 23. Aerial photograph of ...
Biodiversity campaigner Isabella Tree says wild areas work ‘hand in glove’ with food production as her Sussex estate boasts return of endangered species The Knepp estate in West Sussex is home to the ...
With unstoppable vigour, thickets of thistles three-foot-high were advancing over our land, engulfing acre after acre like the Day Of The Triffids. Every day, as my husband Charlie and I walked over ...
From the thickets of our rewilding project comes a virtuoso performance: an aria of liquid trills and throaty gurgles, ending in an exuberant whistling crescendo. We stalk along the periphery of what ...
Conservationists have hailed the white stork as "an emblem for nature recovery" as they work to reintroduce the long-vanished breeding bird to the UK. Once a common sight in Britain, with their large ...
The title track of Jon Hopkins’s 2013 LP Immunity is the theme music to this rewilding documentary, and it couldn’t be more fitting. David Allen’s film recounts the decision by English couple ...
For generations, they have been associated with new life and the patter of tiny feet. But storks are now enjoying a population boom of their own amid a conservation project that has seen them return ...
As curator at Manchester Museum for 18 years, I’ve helped create a new exhibition, Wild, that showcases some incredible projects that are bringing plants and animals back from the brink of extinction, ...
Britain’s most endangered animals and plants have declined by 58 percent since the 1970s, and one in ten is threatened with extinction, according to a recent report. The U.K. has lost 44 million birds ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Humans have an irresistible urge to flatten and smooth. We plough and groom our fields and level sites to build ...