TED Talks Daily 3 tips to make your world beautifully wild | Isabella Tree
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Nov 6, 2025 
Isabella Tree, a conservationist and author known for her innovative rewilding projects, shares her journey of transforming a struggling farm into a thriving biodiversity hotspot. Discover her three actionable tips for anyone eager to make their green spaces wild, including creating varied terrain and thinking like a herbivore in garden care. Isabella underscores the profound impact of rewilding even in ordinary backyards, emphasizing that embracing messiness can redefine beauty in our gardens and urban landscapes.
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Rewilding Works Small And Fast
- Rewilding doesn't require vast, remote landscapes and can happen quickly in small urban or backyard spaces.
- Small-scale rewilding benefits nature, climate, and human well-being fast.
From Failing Farm To Rewilding Success
- Isabella Tree and her husband rewilded 3,500 acres after intensive farming failed and heavy debt forced a change.
- Within five years, free-roaming animals and restoring water revived biodiversity and soil carbon storage.
Walled Garden Biodiversity Boost
- Isabella Tree rewilded a Victorian walled garden previously dominated by a monoculture lawn and increased biodiversity by 35% in three years.
- She replaced high-maintenance turf with mixed plantings and self-seeding wildflowers to attract wildlife.