Sir Charles Burrell – Rewilding at Knepp Castle, West Sussex
You’ve got the book and the T-shirt and now you can go to the talk on Rewilding at Knepp! Join CPRE Sussex and hear Sir Charles Burrell’s account of his journey transitioning from intensive farming to a low-cost, landscape restoration project at the Knepp Estate. All 3,200 acres of the Knepp Estate are now devoted to a process-led rewilding project involving free-roaming herds of cattle, horses, pigs and deer as drivers of habitat creation. Since 2001, when it began, numerous Red Data species have colonised Knepp and populations of common species are rocketing. The success of this open-ended, low-cost, landscape-scale restoration project, where natural processes are allowed to perform, is now influencing thinking across the conservation world.
Time: 19:00 GMT
