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This project pioneered the use of beavers as a wildlife conservation tool in the UK. The success of this project has provided the inspiration behind other projects in Gloucestershire and Argyll. The Kent beaver colony lives in a 130-acre (0.53 km 2) fenced enclosure at the wetland of Ham Fen. Subsequently, the population has been supplemented ...
White stork were observed raising chicks in the UK for the first time in 600 years at Knepp in 2020. [31] Beavers were re-introduced to Knepp in February 2020, having been absent from Sussex for several hundred years. [32] One of the beavers escaped in December that year. [33]
In Wilding, Isabella Tree makes the case for the creation of Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale rewilding project in lowland England. The 3,500-acre (1,400-hectare) wildland project was created in the grounds of Knepp Castle, the ancestral home of her husband, Sir Charles Burrell. Tree describes how the estate, farmed conventionally on poor ...
STORY: Beavers are being reintroduced in London 400 years since they disappearedas part of an urban rewilding push by conservationists BEN GOLDSMITH, REWILDING ADVOCATE SAYING:"I think we'll have ...
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Sir Charles Raymond Burrell, 10th Baronet (born 27 August 1962) is an English landowner, conservationist and founder of the Knepp Wildland, the first large-scale lowland rewilding project in England, which was created in the early 2000s when he stopped conventional farming on 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) of land surrounding the ancestral family home at Knepp Castle in West Sussex.
Titled 'Guiding Principles for Rewilding', researchers and project leaders from North America (Canada, Mexico and the United States) joined with counterparts in Europe (Denmark, France, Hungary, The Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK), China, and South America (Chile and Colombia) to produce a unifying description, along with a set of ten ...