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    "description": "<p>In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the &lsquo;Knepp experiment&rsquo;, a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope.</p>\n<p>Forced to accept that intensive farming on the heavy clay of their land at Knepp was economically unsustainable, Isabella Tree and her husband Charlie Burrell made a spectacular leap of faith: they decided to step back and let nature take over. Thanks to the introduction of free-roaming cattle, ponies, pigs and deer &ndash; proxies of the large animals that once roamed Britain &ndash; the 3,500 acre project has seen extraordinary increases in wildlife numbers and diversity in little over a decade.</p>\n<p>Extremely rare species, including turtle doves, nightingales, peregrine falcons, lesser spotted woodpeckers and purple emperor butterflies, are now breeding at Knepp, and populations of other species are rocketing. The Burrells&rsquo; degraded agricultural land has become a functioning ecosystem again, heaving with life &ndash; all by itself.</p>\n<p>Personal and inspirational, Wilding is an astonishing account of the beauty and strength of nature, when it is given as much freedom as possible.</p>",
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