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This is on point. I'm Magna Chachrabardi. Isabella Tree joins us today. She's a

British author and conservationist. She and her husband live on the 3,500 acre NEP Estate.

And in 2002, they decided to make a major change to their land.

And Isabella joins us today from the NEP estate in West Sussex in England.

Isabella welcome to Onpoint.

Thank you. Nice to be here. So if I were to have the delightful chance to walk across or walk around your 35 acres right now,

since this is radio, first of all, I'd like to ask you, what would I hear?

Well, you might hear a roaring stag.

It's the end of the rut season, but we still have a few mighty male stags out there who are still kind of roaring

a little bit towards the end of the season.

You might hear some bill clattering of our white stalks and I've literally just seen about a dozen of them fly past the

window and this for us is one of the most exciting things because we haven't seen white stalks

in Britain for 600 years and we've reintroduced them there nesting here for the first time since 1416.

So that's really exciting. We've got lots of autumn migrants, field fairs, Red Wing coming to feed up on the seeds of our

thistles before they head off for migration down to Europe. It's it's it feels like the the year is coming to a close but it's it's

kind of in its last throes you know we've got all the migrants and the geese and

the ducks and yeah it's a lovely time of year. It sounds like you can you can hear almost

nature preparing herself for the slow slumber of of wintertime. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, it sounds gorgeous, actually. Now, take me back to the late 90s, early 2000s. What would have I heard then?

Ah, you would have heard probably a lot of farm machinery. You wouldn't have heard many birds.

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