Isabella Tree

Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell (born 1964)^[1] is a British author and conservationist. She is author of the Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award-winning book Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm that describes 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, a landowner and conservationist.

Isabella Tree
Born	1964 (age 60–61)
Education	University of London
Occupation(s)	Conservationist, writer
Spouse	Charles Burrell
Children	2
Mother	Lady Anne Tree
Relatives	Edward Cavendish (grandfather) Mary Gascoyne-Cecil (grandmother) Ronald Tree (grandfather) Nancy Lancaster (grandmother)
Website	isabellatree.com

Biography

Tree attended Millfield School.^[2] She was adopted by an aristocratic British family as a baby. She read Classics, following the advice of author Iris Murdoch and went to the University of London.^[3]

From 1993 to 1995, Tree was a travel correspondent at the Evening Standard.^[4] In 1999 she was Overall Winner of the Travelex Travel Writers' Awards for a feature on Nepal's Kumaris, or "Living Goddesses" – "High and Mighty" – for the Sunday Times.^[5] She has written articles for The Guardian^[6] and National Geographic Magazine.^[7]

Tree is married to Sir Charles Burrell and lives at Knepp Castle in West Sussex.^[8]

Books

• Tree, Isabella (1996). Islands in the Clouds: Travels in the Highlands of New Guinea. Lonely Planet Publications. ISBN 9780864423696.
• ––––– (2001). Sliced Iguana. Bloomsbury USA. ISBN 1845114965.
• ––––– (2004). The Bird Man: The Extraordinary Story of John Gould. Barrie & Jenkins. ISBN 071262158X.
• ––––– (2014). The Living Goddess. Eland Publishing. ISBN 978-0143422549.
• ––––– (2018). Wilding: the return of nature to a British farm. Pan Macmillan. ISBN 9781509805105.
• ––––– (2020). Second Nature. Granta. ISBN 9781909889361.
• ––––– (2021). When We Went Wild. Ivy Kids. ISBN 9780711262850.
• ––––– (2022). When The Storks Came Home. Ivy Kids Eco. ISBN 9780711272798.
• ––––– (2023). The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small. Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781526659293.
• ––––– (2024). Wilding: How to Bring Wildlife Back, The Illustrated Guide for Children.

Awards

• 1996: Shortlisted for the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award (Islands in the Clouds)^[9]
• 1999: Overall winner of the Travelex Travel Writer Awards^[9][10]
• 2018: Richard Jefferies Society Literature Award (Wilding)^[11]
• 2018: One of the top ten science books – Smithsonian Magazine (Wilding) ^[12]
• 2019: Shortlisted for Wainwright Prize (Wilding)^[13]
• 2020: Awarded the CIEEM (Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management) Medal^[14]
• 2021: Royal Geographical Society's Ness Award^[15]
• 2023: Zoological Society of London Silver Medal (Wilding)^[16]
• 2024: Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Sussex^[17]

See also

• Wilding (2023 film)