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On Your Farm: Wild East

Wild East

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Anna Hill finds out about a project to make more space for nature on land in East Anglia.

A project in East Anglia is linking large-scale farmers with thousands of local residents to create a regional network for nature. Anna Hill finds out how it's working.

It's called "Wild East": three big landowners are putting 20 percent of their land back to nature and asking people all over East Anglia to join them. Anna Hill meets the farmers who are managing hundreds of acres for wildlife as well as food production, and hears how they've been joined by local communities and individuals who are pledging pockets of land to create more space for nature. The pledgees' patches of land - from corners of gardens to school playgrounds - are put on the interactive "Map of Dreams", forming a network of wildlife corridors. In one of the most intensively farmed parts of the country, Wild East is encouraging farmers and residents to create messy edges, no-mow gardens, woodlands and community meadows. Their aim is to regenerate an abundance of wildlife that's been missing for generations.

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