Wilder Claylands

Building a vision for an ancient landscape 

We’re exploring how, together, we can create a Wilder Claylands over the next 25 years.

Helping nature recover right across a landscape takes everyone. It’s vital that we involve communities, businesses, landowners and decision-makers as we protect and restore wildlife in the South Norfolk Claylands. During our Claylands Wilder Connections project, we achieved some great outcomes for wildlife, learned a great deal and we have lots more ideas that we know will make an even bigger difference.

Update – November 2025

We have started creating a 25-year vision for the area’s wildlife and wild spaces.

Many thanks to the over 400 people who completed our on-line survey and to the nearly 100 people who attended one of our recent drop-in sessions. We are currently analysing the survey results and event feedback.

The next step

We will be meeting with partners in early 2026 to discuss how to take this vision forward.

Once we’ve created our joint 25-year vision, we’ll begin our journey towards it by creating and delivering a five-year plan, which we will launch in spring/summer 2026.