Return of the White Stork: Restoring an Iconic Symbol of Rebirth

From the award-winning conservationist and author of Wilding comes another beautiful story of conservation.

In the spring of 2020, when the world was on lockdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic, author Isabella Tree watched a breeding pair of white storks atop an oak tree nestled within her rewilding project at Knepp estate in West Sussex. It was the first nesting pair of white storks in Britain on record for more than 600 years. The last pair on record had been in 1416, a pair that nested ...