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WildEast Wild East is a supra-regional nature restoration project that aims to restore 20% of East Anglia to natural habitat.

Gathering 20% pledges to leave a bit of wilderness through gardens, farms, towns and industrial areas, we can save nature from the brink.

24/08/2026

🌱 PLEDGEE OF THE WEEK 🌱

This week’s Pledgee of the Week is Anna Turrell, near Swaffham in Norfolk 💚

Another patch of Britain being put on the map for nature.

Because restoring nature doesn’t have to mean huge estates or grand projects. It can start with a garden, a field, a hedgerow, a pond, or simply a patch of land given back to the wild. 🌿

Every pledge matters.

And as more of us join in, those individual patches begin to form something much bigger — a connected landscape where nature has the space to recover and thrive. 🦋🐝🌳

What could you pledge for nature?

Add your patch to the Map of Dreams and help us turn the map greener, one pledge at a time.

👉 mapofdreams.wildeast.co.uk

22/08/2026

Wild edges matter. 🌿

Hedgerows, field margins, ditches and those slightly untidy corners of the countryside might not look like much — but they can be incredibly important for wildlife.

And as Hugh explains, this isn’t about choosing nature over farming.

It’s about making space for both.

Healthy hedgerows and wild edges can provide food and shelter for birds, insects and small mammals, create corridors for wildlife to move through the landscape, and help build a healthier, more resilient countryside around productive farmland.

We don’t need every field to become wild.

Sometimes, giving nature back the edges can make an enormous difference.

🌱 Leave a little more wild.
🌾 Farm the rest.
🦋 Let nature back in.

19/08/2026

It’s not just Hugh banging on about the Map of Dreams anymore… 🌱

For the past couple of months, Rambling Henry has joined forces with Wild East, helping us spread the word and recruit people across the country to put their own piece of nature on the map.

And we’re thrilled to see it growing.

Gardens. Farms. Community spaces. Woodlands. Verges. Ponds. Fields. Even the smallest corners being given back to the wild.

The Map of Dreams is about celebrating what people are already doing for nature — and inspiring thousands more of us to join them.

Because protecting nature isn’t something that happens somewhere else, done by somebody else.

We are nature.

The air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink — ultimately, it all depends on a living, thriving natural world.

So wherever you are, whatever patch you have…

Put your dream on the map. 🌍🌿

17/08/2026

Wild East 🤝 Heal Rewilding 🌱

We’re huge admirers of what the team at Heal are building — proving that restoring nature doesn’t just belong in remote wilderness, but can happen right here in the landscapes we all live amongst.

Different places. Different projects. One shared ambition: more space for nature, everywhere.

This is exactly what the Map of Dreams is about — connecting the people, places and projects helping nature return across Britain.

Proud to have Heal Rewilding on the map. 💚



12/08/2026

Happy solar eclipse.

12/08/2026

There’s something deeply sad about Dunwich.

A place once full of life, slowly surrendered to the sea, a reminder that nothing in nature stays still forever.

And perhaps there’s a lesson in that.

Fire, storms, floods and erosion can look like destruction to us, but disturbance has always been part of the natural world. Humans, too, have used fire for thousands of years to renew landscapes and encourage new growth.

That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t mourn what is lost.

But nature rarely sees an ending in quite the same way we do.

Where something disappears, something else begins.

So while we remember the Dunwich that was, let’s also embrace what comes next, the new habitats, new life and new stories that will emerge.

Nature changes. Nature adapts. And, given the chance, nature returns. 🌱

10/08/2026

What if the future of farming isn’t choosing between food and nature — but making room for both? 🌾🌿

At Ken Hill, Dominic and his team are putting that idea into practice.

Rewilding the least productive land.
Conserving precious existing habitats.
Regeneratively farming the land that produces food.

And nature is responding — with species like nightjars returning to breed after almost 20 years away, and spoonbills arriving on the marshes.

Ken Hill is proof that nature recovery doesn’t have to mean abandoning productive landscapes. It can mean looking at the land differently — understanding what each part does best, and giving nature space to return alongside us.

That’s exactly what the Map of Dreams is about: connecting the people and places already making room for nature, and showing just how much is possible when those individual efforts become something bigger.

🌱 Everyone has a role to play in nature’s recovery.

08/08/2026

The heart of England, quietly growing. 🌱🌳

Among the grasses, a tiny oak seedling — one day, perhaps, a great English oak.

Nature finding a way, if we give her the room.

If you want to give her some room in your garden please tell us about and pin your name on the map of dreams at mapofdreams.wildeast.co.uk

04/08/2026

Would you pull this plant out? 🌼

Ragwort is often seen as nothing more than a w**d. But look a little closer, and you’ll discover an extraordinary story.

Its bright yellow flowers provide nectar for a huge variety of pollinators, while it acts as the sole food plant for the striking cinnabar moth caterpillar. Remove every patch of ragwort, and you remove an entire habitat with it.

Like so much in nature, context matters. In the right place, ragwort isn’t just a plant—it’s part of a thriving ecosystem.

In this short film, Hugh explains why learning to see beyond the label of “w**d” can completely change the way we understand our landscapes.

Sometimes the species we’re quickest to remove are the very ones holding nature together. **d

31/07/2026

Can cattle self-medicate?

Here with Hugh Crossley at Fritton Lake, where cattle living in the forest appear to instinctively seek out different herbs, plants and even bark depending on what they need.

Given space, variety and a more natural environment, animals can display behaviours we rarely see in intensive systems — and may need far less routine intervention as a result.

Sometimes nature already knows what to do.

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