WildKingdom & The Map of Dreams Podcast

Wild Kingdom and The Map of Dreams is a brand-new podcast hosted by Hugh Somerleyton, founder of the wildlife charity WildEast. At its heart is the Map of Dreams, a living record of extraordinary people doing ordinary things to restore the natural world and sharing their vision for what a wilder future might look like. The ambition is bold but simple: to restore 20% of the United Kingdom back to nature, recording every pledge on the Map of Dreams. Because change, as Wild Kingdom co-founder Hugh Somerleyton believes, doesn't only happen at policy level, it happens in back gardens, field margins, and farmyards, one nature corridor at a time. In this series, Hugh sits down with some of the brightest minds and most passionate voices and commentators in conservation to explore what meaningful advocacy really looks like, and why biodiversity isn't just an environmental issue, but a human one. Huge thanks to Laurence Friedman - Wild East for giving us permission to use

WildKingdom & The Map of Dreams Podcast is a science podcast hosted by WildKingdom, with 8 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

WildKingdom hosts WildKingdom & The Map of Dreams Podcast, a science show with 8 episodes published.

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  Episode #7

  Charlie Burrell

  Apr 15, 202650 minS1

  <p>From near bankruptcy to Britain’s rewilding revolution, Charlie Burrell reveals to Hugh Somerleyton, how letting nature lead at Knepp reshaped farming, food and the future of the countryside.</p> <p><br> Charlie inherited the 3,500-acre estate from his grandparents in the 1980’s and is the inspiration behind the Knepp Wildland Project. Having run Knepp Home Farm for 20 years, Charlie had a dramatic change of heart after a visit to the Oostvaardersplassen project in Holland in the 1990s and saw the potential for a similar “rewilding” project at home in Sussex.</p> <p>Beyond Knepp, Charlie is deeply involved in large...

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  Episode #6

  Danny Kinka American Prairie Reserve

  Apr 8, 20261h 1mS1

  <p>From Montana’s vast grasslands to Indigenous-led restoration, Danny Kinka reveals to Hugh Somerleyton how bison, beavers and bold storytelling are reshaping the American Prairie, and why rewilding is as much about culture as it is about wildlife.</p> <p>Dr Daniel Kinka is the Director of Rewilding at American Prairie, an extraordinary project in eastern Montana working to create the largest nature reserve in the continental United States, often described as a North American Serengeti. A National Geographic Fellow and conservation ecologist, Danny has pioneered the use of cutting-edge technology to monitor and restore wildlife, from bison reintroduced af...

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  Episode #5

  Joost Lammer & Johan van der Haven And the Dalmaitian Pelicans

  Apr 1, 202636 minS1

  <p>Joost & Johan, Dutch rewilding pioneers, reveal to Hugh Somerleyton their radical plan to bring back the lost Dalmatian pelican to the Netherlands and even potentially Great Britain, a spectacular “aqua wolf” that could transform our wetlands forever.</p> <p>In this episode, Hugh is joined remotely by two of the people at the heart of one of the most ambitious rewilding stories in Europe, the effort to return the Dalmatian pelican to the Netherlands after an absence of more than 500 years.</p> <p>Joost Lammer is Curator at Vogelpark Avifauna, the world's very first bird park and a serious forc...

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  Episode #4

  Julia Pyke

  Mar 25, 202646 minS1

  <p>Nuclear and nature collide as Julia Pyke of Sizewell C makes the provocative case to Hugh Somerleyton that big energy can mean big nature, and that Britain’s most controversial power project could power 7% of the UK, while restoring more land than it takes.</p> <p>As the founding Joint Managing Director of Sizewell C, Julia Pyke spent nearly a decade making the case that major infrastructure and genuine environmental enhancement can and must go hand in hand. The biodiversity and landscape plan developed under her leadership at the Suffolk nuclear project has been cited by Tony Juniper himself as...

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  Episode #3

  Fleur Britten

  Mar 18, 202640 minS1

  <p>From Vogue to viral activism, Fleur Britten joins Hugh Somerleyton lakeside to expose fashion’s greenwashing, champion cool climate action, and ask whether making sustainability sexy is the key to saving nature.</p> <p>Journalist, author and self-described "eco nag", Fleur Britten spent fifteen years as Senior Features Editor at Sunday Times Style before going freelance, where she now writes widely on sustainability, nature and lifestyle for publications including the Guardian, The Times, Vogue and the Telegraph. Sharp, accessible and culturally switched-on, Fleur brings a rare skill to the conservation conversation: the ability to translate complex environmental issues into st...

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