“Wilding” by Isabelle Tree, noted author, travel writer and one half of the couple (with husband Charlie Burrell) behind the Knepp Wildland Project, tackles what this starkly different approach to conservation means for people who increasingly see the world solely through the eyes of industry and an urban landscape. In the midst of all this destruction, which passes unnoticed by most people who, thanks to predominantly now living in cities, have lost their connection to the beating heart of the natural world, there is a growing movement known as “Re-wilding” which aims to return agricultural and other altered land back to some semblance of its former self. Of course, it is climate change which is quite rightly in the spotlight at the moment, but step by step with it we are witnessing too the degradation of the natural environment with biospheres increasingly losing to the demands of agribusiness, logging and urbanisation. This is not an assessment borne of alarmism or sensationalist tendencies study after study is showing that the Anthropocene age, the dates of which have not been conclusively agreed but which aligns roughs with humanity’s impact on the Earth’s geology and environment, is having a calamitously deleterious effect on the planet. We live in an increasingly blighted world.
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