Knepp from February to August - Hazel Reeves
Knepp Estate, Dial Post, nr Horsham, West Sussex, RH13 8NN, UK
Hazel Reeves
Latitude: +50.9703582°
Longitude: -0.3645215°
Hazel Reeves is an artist based at Knepp Estate, renowned for its pioneering rewilding initiative and its increasing biodiversity.
Hazel will be streaming from the heart of Knepp Wilding, where the Nightingales will hopefully be in full dawn song. Since 2021 she has been recording soundscapes from the scrubland to capture the Knepp rewilding success story, of increasing biodiversity, including bird diversity.
As the former arable fields become thorny scrub - a habitat now almost totally erased from the wider countryside - it provides nesting habitat for a remarkable number of nightingales, turtle doves and astonishing numbers of lesser whitethroats.
The Knepp project is now a leading light for conservation in the UK, demonstrating how giving nature space and opportunity to express itself can restore the land and its wildlife in a dramatically short space of time, reversing the cataclysmic declines that have affected most species elsewhere in Britain over the past 50 years.
As the former arable fields become thorny scrub - a habitat now almost totally erased from the wider countryside - it provides nesting habitat for a remarkable number of nightingales, turtle doves and astonishing numbers of lesser whitethroats.
The Knepp project is now a leading light for conservation in the UK, demonstrating how giving nature space and opportunity to express itself can restore the land and its wildlife in a dramatically short space of time, reversing the cataclysmic declines that have affected most species elsewhere in Britain over the past 50 years.