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WildKingdom & The Map of Dreams Podcast

WildKingdom & The Map of Dreams Podcast

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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 your amazing song!

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  • Joost Lammer & Johan van der Haven And the Dalmaitian Pelicans
    Apr 1 2026

    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.

    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.

    Joost Lammer is Curator at Vogelpark Avifauna, the world's very first bird park and a serious force in international species conservation. Johan van der Haven is Avifauna's Team Leader for Green and Nature, a lifelong birder with a decade spent living in Thailand and a daily commitment to strengthening biodiversity across the globe.

    This is a conversation about patience, partnership, and the profound possibility of restoration which is something the UK is looking to recreate.

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    36 m
  • Julia Pyke
    Mar 25 2026

    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.

    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 a model for what ambitions infrastructure can achieve for nature. A fellow of the Energy Institute, Julia brings a fascinating and provocative perspective to the question of how big industry can be a force for ecological good, particularly pertinent for WildEast's own work in East Suffolk.

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    46 m
  • Fleur Britten
    Mar 18 2026

    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.

    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 stories that resonate with mainstream audiences.

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    40 m
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