Isabella Tree | |
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| 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 |
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.
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]
