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]
