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A forgotten landscape is coming back to life - and it feels like stepping back in time
The Knepp Rewilding Project comprises 3,500 acres of former farmland in West Sussex. Here, Highland cattle, Tamworth pigs and Exmoor ponies share land with reintroduced beavers and storks, along with many other species that have returned to the land now it’s more hospitable to them. I walk here on a spring morning, mist loitering around the scrub while birds I don’t know sing out the dawn. As always, when I visit, I feel like I’m stepping back in time. “We looked at how we could use the estate radically differently”: All you need to know about Knepp, the UK’s first rewilding project Why rewilding can save Britain's wildlife – an interview with Isabella Tree at Knepp Wildlands I stick to the paths so as not to trespass on land dedicated to wildlife, tuning into long-forgotten sounds: storks greeting each other with a clattering of bills, the first nightingales of the year, the first cuckoo. A turtle dove – whose numbers have declined by 99 per cent nationally since the 1960s – purrs in the distance. 10 amazing facts about nightingales and the best places to see them At other times of year, I’ll hear the clattering antlers of rutting deer...
