Isabella Tree

Isabella Tree, Lady Burrell (born 1964) is a British author and conservationist. She is author of the 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 wildland project was created in the grounds of Knepp Castle, the ancestral home of her husband, Sir Charles Burrell, a landowner and conservationist.

Biography Tree attended Millfield School. 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.

From 1993 to 1995, Tree was a travel correspondent at the Evening Standard. 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. She has written articles for The Guardian and National Geographic Magazine.

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

Books

Awards

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