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3 Tips to Make Your World Beautifully Wild | Isabella Tree | TED

When conservationists talk about rewilding, most people picture wolves and bison roaming endless landscapes — but Isabella Tree discovered the real revolution is happening in ordinary backyards. She shares the incredible story of how she and her husband transformed their failing farmland into a nature paradise, offering a three-step formula for anyone looking to turn…

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When conservationists talk about rewilding, most people picture wolves and bison roaming endless landscapes — but Isabella Tree discovered the real revolution is happening in ordinary backyards. She shares the incredible story of how she and her husband transformed their failing farmland into a nature paradise, offering a three-step formula for anyone looking to turn their green space wild. (Recorded at TED Countdown Summit 2025 on June 17, 2025)

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32 Comments

  1. @Laterprater

    December 7, 2025 at 11:08 am

    We tried that in the Netherlands and it doesn’t work, children being attacked by wolves, sheep slaughtered. What this lady is speaking about is unrealistic and impossible, it is wishful thinking of a small elite.

    • @ozelotsoffunT-jz2rt

      December 7, 2025 at 12:37 pm

      Sure mr sheperd do you want some EU funds as compensation 😢

    • @AnnieB-v8j

      December 7, 2025 at 1:03 pm

      One child, whose parents do not share your sentiments. One wolf, ‘Bram,’ who is acknowledged to be behaving unusually and problematically. In a nature reserve forest, where wolves are protected and have reintroduced naturally from neighboring countries. Balance can be found and achieved, with livestock guardian dogs and financial compensation for livestock losses, for example. In fact, roaming domestic dogs are often proven to be the most commonly injurious or lethal to livestock.
      Not only does this talk demonstrate ‘rewilding’ on micro scales, in urban settings and backyard gardens, the planting and maintenance of hedgerows around agricultural lands is centuries old. These create wildlife corridors, windbreaks and habitat for pollinators and rodent-hunting raptors.
      Your comment holds lots of fear and very few supportable claims.

    • @Laterprater

      December 7, 2025 at 6:26 pm

      @AnnieB-v8j There is no fear in my comment at all, i share the passion for nature and giving animals a free and open space to prosper but we have to be realistic.
      I also would love a better coexistence between wild animals and humanity but it is not possible in all area’s. It is not only dangerous for our young ones but also for the wildlife we have and tried to preserve for decades.
      Rewilding all area’s on our earth is impossible, we can do more to give nature and wild animals more space but we can not turn back the clock.

    • @AnnieB-v8j

      December 7, 2025 at 7:02 pm

      @Laterprater In the past 50 years, 70% of all wild animals have disappeared from the planet. 80% of ocean fish biomass has been depleted by overfishing and ocean warming due to climate change. Insect populations are down by ~70% in many places in the past 20 years, even remote areas untouched by pesticides and habitat loss. These are the pollinators for the entire food web, of which we are a part. Nature can repair itself and reestablish balance when given the chance.
      Our ‘young ones’ are NOT endangered, which is the persistent part of your comments which display fear.
      If all animal life were represented by a human body, one forearm would be all wild animals. The pinky finger would be all wild predators. The rest of the body would be livestock and pets.  
      This ‘all-or-none’ line in your comments is silly. We are charged to be STEWARDS of the Earth, not crazy-selfish and depleting maniacs.  We are literally destroying our habitable planet without any Plan B. Giving up and dismissing the possibilities would surely be the path to doom.

  2. @ExistentialWolf

    December 7, 2025 at 11:18 am

    The shepherds is important, but the meat is counter productive. Any manageable lot is good for agriculture at best, but majesty comes with expanse. Don’t forego the importance of man. 😉

    • @AnnieB-v8j

      December 7, 2025 at 12:29 pm

      (*expense?) She considers humans as the apex predators in some scenarios, and ‘representative’ browsers, grazers and rooters in others. Hardly foregoing the important contribution… Why is the meat counterproductive, in your opinion?

    • @ExistentialWolf

      December 7, 2025 at 1:19 pm

      @AnnieB-v8j Spill the beast into the expanse 😉

    • @AnnieB-v8j

      December 7, 2025 at 3:25 pm

      @ExistentialWolf??? Whatever. Spill the nonsense into the internet.

    • @ExistentialWolf

      December 7, 2025 at 3:42 pm

      @AnnieB-v8j try a dating app pug

  3. @MBA-QuickGuide

    December 7, 2025 at 11:40 am

    These two basically handed 3,500 acres back to nature… and nature upgraded itself to Rewilding Pro Max 😂🍃
    If your life had a “Rewilding Mode” like Low Power Mode, where would you switch it on first?

  4. @MBA-QuickGuide

    December 7, 2025 at 11:41 am

    Isabella shows that rewilding isn’t just for huge estates — even a backyard, balcony, or tiny urban space can become a mini ecosystem. Which of her ideas do you think works best for city living?

    • @waelfaraj6705

      December 7, 2025 at 4:27 pm

      One thing that works for urban rewilding in urban areas is also fertilizing the soil with organic leftovers from food or decomposing organic wastes especially where plants love fertile soil …
      You can plant different kinds of plants for more diversity and balance while designing gardens that suit the background and the architecture…You can introduce animals that are beneficial and experience can tell what the suitable ones are …

  5. @mindful-789

    December 7, 2025 at 12:58 pm

    Nice lady 😍

  6. @mindful-789

    December 7, 2025 at 1:01 pm

    That was honestly inspiring ❤️

  7. @Garlicnaan08

    December 7, 2025 at 1:19 pm

    Too late

  8. @stevefaure415

    December 7, 2025 at 1:57 pm

    …and eventually, beavers. OHHHHHHHHHH! 02:57. That was my favorite part.

    • @maxinedowns8013

      December 7, 2025 at 6:21 pm

      Beavers are nature’s little engineers.

  9. @Murph_82

    December 7, 2025 at 2:12 pm

    1 tip to not.. use artificial grass 👌

  10. @JonathanGerstner

    December 7, 2025 at 4:29 pm

    Wonderful!

  11. @matteobarcalla

    December 7, 2025 at 4:52 pm

    Beautiful. I hope that this message resonates with everyone.

  12. @kk-xj5oz

    December 7, 2025 at 7:42 pm

    Knepp is truly amazing

  13. @WayinVideo-DeepQA

    December 7, 2025 at 8:56 pm

    Isabella Tree’s talk on rewilding really offers a fresh way to think about the spaces we live in. I love the idea that you don’t need massive tracts of land to create a thriving ecosystem—even a backyard can become a meaningful haven for biodiversity.

    That said, I do wonder if it’s a bit idealistic to assume everyone will embrace a more “wild” aesthetic. A lot of people are still attached to manicured lawns and carefully controlled gardens, partly because that’s what we’ve been taught to value.

    Which makes me think: what if we pushed the idea one step further by blending rewilding with edible landscapes? Imagine gardens that support pollinators and native species *and* produce food for us. Could that be a more practical, more widely appealing next chapter of the movement?

    I’d love to hear what others think about balancing beauty, biodiversity, and everyday usefulness.

  14. @Mone_trees

    December 7, 2025 at 11:22 pm

    Amazing story ❤❤

  15. @Interstellartraveltechno-rd4zx

    December 8, 2025 at 1:01 am

    Rewilding???perhaps in the mean time stop countries like brasil and so many others, stop them from destroying the last ancient forests and animals

  16. @Interstellartraveltechno-rd4zx

    December 8, 2025 at 1:11 am

    There are so many being penaliced for not cuting their simple grass, and gardening, can become a burden, a expensive one, beter focus most of the idea in nature at a state level.

  17. @V.Hansen.

    December 8, 2025 at 1:35 am

    Wonderful.

    I was just calculating how many people we could feed here if we allowed the American bison to thrive again. Imagine free ranging bison and cattle. One bison produces 350 lbs of meat.

  18. @ivannovotny4552

    December 8, 2025 at 4:35 am

    Stunningly beautiful and thank you for sharing. 🇨🇦

  19. @mariaantoniettamontella9173

    December 8, 2025 at 5:14 am

    wonderful place

  20. @Yurii_riccio

    December 8, 2025 at 5:19 am

    🙏🏼🫶🏼🔥

  21. @simonpannett8810

    December 9, 2025 at 10:04 am

    Why is Charlie a leader of a local hunt group??? Was that inherited as well??

  22. @PlasticBank

    December 9, 2025 at 3:36 pm

    Beautiful! We’re part of this story too, and we can choose hope. There’s still so much left to save 💚

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