Were set up in fields at Knepp Rewilding Estate and all pollinators captured were

This study aimed to assess the impacts a rewilding project has on pollinator populations at a local scale. The current decline in pollinator populations is strongly linked to habitat loss and fragmentation, and rewilding has the potential to improve pollinator abundance and diversity. A group of organisms not typically associated with rewilding are pollinators. However, rewilding does present a unique opportunity to reshape abandoned landscapes and investigate how this impacts organisms and the interactions they have with their environment. While rewilding does have potential to benefit both habitats and species, like most traditional conservation methods, it has many limitations. Rewilding aims to restore ecosystem functionality with minimum human input. This event is open to CIEEM members and non-members - advance booking is required.The recent concerns regarding biodiversity loss have resulted in the emergence of new conservation management strategies, one of which is rewilding. Bookings for the campsite and Knepp events can be made direct here: įurther details about the project are available here Booking There is the option to extend your visit and camp out at the estate, leaving you free to explore the rest of the estate at your own pace or attend some of the other public events at Knepp over the weekend. This event limited to 30 places, book early to avoid disappointment! Knowledge LevelĪ buffet lunch will be provided Further information Join us for an organic and locally sourced lunch, talk and private walking tour of Repton Park where extensive river restoration has taken place, followed by a 4x4 safari of some more ‘wild’ areas of the estate where re-wilding has been underway for over 10 years.

Penny Green (Estate Ecologist) provides an insight into this ambitious re-wilding project, challenges and successes along the way and results of ecological monitoring – some 15 years on from the projects inception.

Traditionally the estate was under arable and dairy production, until 2001 when a series of regeneration and restoration projects were initiated aimed at nature conservation, environmental education and less intensive meat production. The Castle, still home to the family, was built by architect John Nash. Knepp is a 3,500 acre Estate which has been in the Burrell family for over 220 years.

This event is organised by the South East England Section Committee. Knepp Rewilding Project: a rare chance to visit one of the UKs first re-wilding projects an ambitious scheme which has seen large areas of the estate taken out of traditional agricultural production and turned over to natural regeneration.

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