Unlike our indigenous, reclusive roe deer (of which we have a small population at Knepp) that are exclusive browsers, fallow graze as well as browse. Their impact in the Repton Park around the modern-day Knepp Castle is obvious from the characteristic high browse line on the trees, extensive, closely cropped ‘deer lawns’, and lack of ground ...

Welcome to Knepp: a trailblazing 3,500-acre rewilding project that has changed the way we think about nature and how we can heal our planet. Since we began rewilding just twenty years ago, endangered species such as nightingales, turtle doves and purple emperor butterflies have found sanctuary here. The sheer abundance of life is mind-blowing.

Research at Knepp has shown that red deer are the most generalist of all Knepp’s herbivores and the only species to favour plantations (planted before the rewilding project began) as habitat. …

Knepp Wildland is the first major lowland rewilding project in England. It comprises 1,400 hectares (3,500 acres) of former arable and dairy farmland in the grounds of Knepp Castle, in West Sussex.

The Knepp Wildland rely on various free-roaming grazing animals – including both cattle, ponies and deer – to keep the landscape open in a way that aims to loosely resemble how these areas were before humans engaged in large-scale hunting and farming in the region.

Nov 11, 2018 · As well as all of the fantastic mammals on site, Knepp is home to a large (and growing) population of purple emperor butterflies, scarcely seen turtle doves and tuneful nightingales. However, it was deer rut season and we were there for the deer!

As well as all of the fantastic mammals on site, Knepp is home to a large (and growing) population of purple emperor butterflies, scarcely seen turtle doves and tuneful nightingales. However, it was deer rut season and we were there for the deer!

Jan 21, 2025 · Celebrate the rich tapestry of life at Knepp. Explore our diverse species collection, from rare butterflies to elusive mammals. Each species has a story to tell in the rewilding of our land. Nestled among the bluebells, a wary fox cub takes in the world—alert, curious, and full of untamed potential.

Mar 10, 2024 · I visited Knepp again a week later as the sun was shining! Walked all along the White Route looking at all the new nests and ended in the Pond Field where the same herd of deer were there once...

Knepp Wild Range Meat sells pasture fed, free roaming, organic meat. Old English long horn beef, Tamworth pork, Fallow and Red deer venison.