Isabella Tree is an award-winning writer and conservationist, and lives with her husband, Charlie Burrell, in the middle of a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex.

She is author of six adult non-fiction books, including the bestseller Wilding.

Her latest book, co-authored with Charlie, The Book of Wilding - a practical guide to rewilding big and small, is published by Bloomsbury.

A children’s version of Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back, illustrated by Angela Harding, will be published by Macmillan Children’s Books in March 2024.


WILDING

BASED ON THE BESTSELLING BOOK BY ISABELLA TREE

Wilding tells the story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. The young couple battles entrenched tradition, and dares to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild. It is the beginning of a grand experiment that will become one of the most significant rewilding experiments in Europe.


 
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DESERT ISLAND DISCS

Isabella Tree, conservationist, shares the soundtrack of her life with Lauren Laverne

 

 

HARDTALK

Interview by Stephen Sackur (voice only)