HEDGE PLEDGE

HEDGE PLEDGE

The WildEast WildEdge

Did you know...
– Between 1946 and 1997 the length of hedgerow across England collapsed from approx 800,000km to 400,000km - that's 50% less natural habitat for wildlife

WildEast region collapsed from approx. 120,000km to 60,000km of hedgerow today

- A hedge can store up to 1 TONNE of carbon per kilometre per year until mature (20 years) so across WildEast we lost the capacity to store 5.5 million TONNES of carbon

- These two metrics make up the BNL – Bio-diversity net loss in our hedgerows

- The word hedge comes from the old English Hecg – meaning fence, so much that they are precious places where nature clings on, they were never created for wildlife

- Currently a hedge only need be 1.5 metres wide x 1 metre tall to be classified as a hedge – not much space for nature

The farm below is 136Ha and has lost approximately 18km of hedgerow, or 7ha of ‘space for nature’.  Removing them also released 250 tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere…

To replace this lost bio-diversity, and recapture the released carbon, this farm would need to create ‘WildEdges’ 10 metres wide – use the slider to see how a wilder farm might look
One of WildEast’s aims is to use hedges to restore bio-diversity - by evolving them into WildEdges, robust planet saving veins coursing through our hard working farms 

By pledging to widen your hedges by a small amount to create WildEdges - together we can make a huge difference!

These WildEdges are free, it’s our debt to nature and contribution to carbon storage – all it takes is to farm a little less
And if we all do our bit, how much difference could WE make?

As well as a tool to help you see what kind of a difference you can make individually, it gets exciting if we ALL do it together so next see what difference we could make across the WildEast.

Do your bit for The WildEast and commit just a fraction of your hedge width back to nature


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