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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But don't ospreys build their own nests? Tim takes us into his world of ‘thinking like an osprey’ and explains why these pioneering birds sometimes need a helping hand. The episode is out now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Isabella Tree is joined by raptor reintroduction specialist Tim Mackrill, to talk about his ambitious vision for bringing ospreys back to Britain. Isabella grabbed the opportunity to witness Tim and his team as they built an osprey nest at Knepp.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The saying ‘build it and they will come’ takes on new meaning in this month's episode of The Knepp Wilding Podcast.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In this interview with Rewilding Britain, she talks about the two years she spent travelling between rewilding sites to bring them to life on canvas.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Our latest art exhibition celebrates the work of Rebecca Howard, who beautifully captures some of the wildest of these places, including our own rewilding project here at Knepp.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Across the UK, there are places where people have stepped back and let nature take the lead, giving wildlife and habitats the chance to recover.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The clacking of white storks, galloping Exmoor ponies, the roar of red stags and the hooting of owls. Seeing the creatures here is only half the joy. The sound they bring to the landscape is magical to take in. There's nothing quite like hearing the chorus in person. Visit us this October.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The message is clear: people want nature protected, and they want more ambition. With 2030 fast approaching, the Government must listen and turn public support into real action for nature. Read the full article here: www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/polling...

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Polling finds public ambition for nature is double that of Government | The Wildlife Trusts

New polling and evidence from The Wildlife Trusts demonstrates that the public grasp the importance of nature far more than politicians

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just 11% of the UK's land and seas are currently protected for nature. Yet the research found the public wants that figure to exceed 60%, more than double the Government's 2030 target.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The British public values nature more highly than the UK Government does, according to new research published by The Wildlife Trusts.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's one of many firsts this year, from praying mantises breeding on the UK mainland to a moth genus never before seen in Britain, all linked to our warming climate. Read the full article here: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Big-eyed bugs and praying mantises: climate crisis drives new visitors to UK shores

Britain has seen an explosion of migrating insects – in some cases from as far as northern Africa

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the first Verge (or Bordeaux) cricket ever recorded in the British Isles. Once news broke, other sightings poured in, coinciding with huge wildfires in Bordeaux and raising the question of whether some had fled the flames of southern Europe.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On a stifling July evening, Matt heard a piercing trill he couldn't place. Returning with entomologist Graeme Lyons, he spent three hours tracking the sound, only to find its source hiding in a crack in the parched clay beneath their feet:

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our lead ecologist Matt Phelps featured this week in The Guardian, talking about this summer's extraordinary wave of new insect arrivals to the UK.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

taking advantage of the perfect conditions here, and giving rise to these amazing numbers. Providing the current spell of good weather continues, we should be expecting to see these butterflies until mid-October. Photo credit: Steve Norris

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We saw some in late June and early July last year, but nothing like the numbers we're seeing this September. Typically, this butterfly has two broods, but our resident butterfly expert Neil Hulme suspects it could be breeding as many as three times at Knepp...

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It loves big open spaces with a variety of grasses to lay its eggs on, but because of the widespread loss of this habitat, it's been pushed to the fringes, existing only in small, fragmented populations.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have seen an astonishing resurgence of the lovely amber-winged wall brown butterfly at Knepp. Before 2025, there'd been just one record of this rare butterfly in the Wildland this century. It gets its name from its habit of basking on walls and rocks, where it opens its wings to soak up the sun.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Twenty-five years into rewilding, Charlie sees it not as a rival to farming, but as "farming's greatest ally", and he's invited RAU students to visit Knepp to see its inner workings for themselves. Congratulations, Charlie!

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It taught him to step back and see the bigger picture, leading to the realisation that intensive farming on our heavy clay wasn't working. "Ultimately," he says, "it saved Knepp."

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Charlie studied at Cirencester in the early 1980s and credits the course with transforming his thinking, and, ironically, getting him out of farming.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We're delighted that Knepp owner Charlie Burrell has been named the Royal Agricultural University's 2026 Alumnus of the Year!

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

For every euro spent on prevention, four to seven euros in damage could be saved. But this isn't only about economics: it's about protecting the planet for those already living on it. Read the article here: rewildingeurope.com/news/rewildi...

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Rewilding: the smart approach to preventing fires and floods | Rewilding Europe

Working with nature is one of our greatest opportunities to build a more resilient and prosperous Europe. As climate change fuels more frequent and intense wildfires, floods and droughts…

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

In this article from Rewilding Europe, Daniel Allen explores how nature-based solutions offer a smarter path, not just for wildfires, but for flooding and drought too.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wildfires have devastated Europe this summer, hitting even areas once thought fire resilient. With forecasts suggesting 40% of Europe could burn by the century's end, something needs to change, yet far more funding goes to reacting to wildfires than preventing them.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Visit Pestival's website and support them: www.pestival.org Read the full article here: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

How cynical that Rentokil is trying to exterminate the brand name of a champion of insects! We support of Pestival's right to protect its name and continue its essential work.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Pestival now finds itself locked in a trademark dispute with Rentokil, after the pest control company used the name 'Pestival' as part of a promotional stunt marking its 100th anniversary.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Bridget Nicholls founded Pestival in 2006 to educate people about how essential insects are to the living world. Since then, Pestival has engaged tens of thousands of people with the importance of insects, working alongside the Wellcome Trust, ZSL London Zoo and the Natural History Museum.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There is, he says, still a place for sheep farming, but not on this scale, not in these conditions, and not at the cost of our environment. Read the full article here: spectator.com/article/jame...

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James Rebanks and the trouble with sheep farming

Millions of sheep limping across our barren hillsides are not an inevitable feature of rural Britain. So why do we tolerate it?

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

alongside a wider animal welfare crisis, with 3 million sheep lame and/or suffering from a multitude of diseases. On top of this, he argues, the practice is for the most part ecologically damaging too.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

In this scrutinising piece for The Spectator, Ben Goldsmith examines the state of UK sheep farming today, highlighting the scale of lamb deaths, with low estimates at a staggering 1.6 million a year,

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

What is the future of sheep farming in Britain? Upland sheep farms cover 20% of agricultural land in the UK but provide only 3% of our food.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We can see no greater evidence of the benefits of rewilding in the face of climate change and extreme heat than what The Guardian has revealed in these aerial images from the Holnicote estate in Somerset.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

While the land around us desiccates, water is still trickling in the beaver ponds, there is no drop in water levels, and the whole area is a magnet for thirsty mammals, birds and insects.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

After centuries of draining the land in the UK we can now see how desperately we need to rewet it. At Knepp we're seeing how effective our beaver wetlands are in this heat.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

With nearly a thousand wildfires this year, and firefighters begging for 5,000 more recruits, and no water-bombing aircraft to call on, this is woefully negligent.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Since taking office, Andy Burnham has barely mentioned the climate crisis. The lack of focus on the crisis that is facing us all is desperately serious: The Guardian has found that just 20 of Defra's 6,613 staff work on climate adaptation.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Our rivers have taken enough. They need a limit on pollution, an industry that manages its own waste, and farming that restores rather than destroys. We know there's a better way.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We need farmers supported to work with nature, not squeezed by a model that turns rivers into dumping grounds.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

We don't need more cheap chicken. We’re already eating more chicken per capita than we ever have in our history. We need a food system that treats manure as the resource it is, building soil instead of poisoning water.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

And the Government's answer? Expand the industry further. No plan for where the extra muck goes. No capacity to process it. Just more pollution.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What can't be absorbed doesn't disappear, it runs off into the rivers we're all trying to save, feeding algal blooms that choke out fish, insects, otters, kingfishers. Whole food webs, gone in a season.

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Knepp Wilding @kneppwilding.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Every year, the UK rears over 1 billion chickens, producing 3.5 million tonnes of manure. In many catchments, there is already more waste than the land can absorb.

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Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Revealed: just 20 out of of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation, as UK burns in fifth heatwave of this summer - FOI request by me @andyburnham.bsky.social needs to level with the country about the climate crisis & set out radical plan to tackle it 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Just 20 of 6,600 Defra staff working on climate adaptation amid drought and wildfires

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

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