ABOUT
ABOUT US
Here at WildEast, we want to return 250,000 hectares of land to nature and radically change how it is seen. We must slow, stop and reverse the alarming ecological declines that are happening on our watch. This is a mission statement that urgently needs your support (and that bit at the end of your garden).
It’s a mission that needs you to just leave a little land to do its own thing. No mowing. No Ploughing. No Flowerbeds (unless they are wild). Just long grasses, dandelions and the insects, birds and animals that will make it their home.
If every backyard, schoolyard, farmyard and industrial yard can save a bit of space for nature, we can realise this mission together.’
WHY DO WE NEED TO MAKE SPACE FOR NATURE?
In the past 50 years, there have been precipitous declines across all wildlife species. We are
now at a crisis point. This should come as no surprise; since the end of world war two, our entire food economy has been hard wired to maximise productivity and reduce prices. We have paved over our gardens, built faster and wider roads and our repeated online shopping has necessitated ever larger industrial estates. A side-effect of this has been a huge reduction in space for nature.
HOW WILL WE DO THIS?
How will we achieve this? By challenging ourselves – all of us – across farming estates, industrial estates, housing estates, and schools, gardens, allotments and churchyards to be contributories to a great river of n ature and return – 20% or 250,000 hectares – of whatever we have – to nature.
Wilder, wetter, woodier – it doesn’t matter – but if we do this together we will return 250,000 hectares of space to nature allowing it to recover and thrive.
This is the WE pledge.
WILDEAST WILL BECOME THE COMMON VOICE...
...the clarion call to arms, the catalyst for decisive change, ‘the lynx’ between conservation agencies, farmers, consumers, businesses and individuals from all walks of life. A conservation accreditation and brand we can trust and of which we are proud – to make the WildEast an exemplar ‘regional nature economy’.
This is the WE grow.
“To restore stability to our planet we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out
of this crisis that we have ourselves created. We must rewild the world.”
– Sir David Attenborough
THE GREAT DECLINE
1970 - 2020
The UK’s State of Nature Report charts a decline across almost all metrics of wildlife.
Here are some of the harrowing statistics:
• Tree sparrow 85%
• Yellow hammer 50%
• Turtle dove 93%
• Common toad 68%
• Natterjack toad 75%
• Crested newts 60%
• Song thrush 50%
• Nightingale 93%
• Hedgehog 30million down to just 1