Letting nature return to 200 acres of Herefordshire countryside
The Meadowlands is our response to the biodiversity and climate crises.
With a balance of traditional conservation and rewilding approaches, we are trying to leave a richer, more resilient environment than the one we found.
Nature is threatened like never before
Like much of the UK, agricultural “improvement” has left most of The Meadowlands devoid of life. But despite farming pressures we still have pockets bursting with diversity, from species-rich grassland to ancient woodland.
Wildlife can return and multiply if you let it
We’re giving nature space by letting these diverse pockets recover and expand across The Meadowlands, intervening as little as possible to restore biodiversity.
The only solution to the “Sixth Extinction” is to increase the area of inviolable natural reserves to half the surface of the Earth or greater.
— E. O. Wilson