WildKingdom & The Map of Dreams Podcast

Paul Lister

From furniture heir to Highland rewilding pioneer, Paul Lister reveals why bringing wolves back to Scotland, rethinking meat and even shrinking the human footprint may be the boldest hope we have for saving nature.
Conservationist, philanthropist and founder of The European Nature Trust, Paul Lister has spent over two decades transforming Alladale Wilderness Reserve, a 23,000-acre estate in the Scottish Highlands, from traditional sporting ground into one of Britain's most ambitious rewilding projects. Over a million native trees planted, peatlands restored, red squirrels reintroduced and a Scottish wildcat breeding programme underway: Alladale is proof that private landowners can be powerful catalysts for ecological recovery. Paul's ultimate dream? To one day see wolves roaming the Highlands again.

Tony Juniper

Episode 1: Tony Juniper
In this debut episode of Wild Kingdom & The Map of Dreams, Hugh Somerleyton sits down with Tony Juniper, Chair of Natural England, to explore how bold leadership, rewilding, and radical optimism can help us restore nature and reimagine the future of Britain.
One of Britain's most distinguished environmentalists, Tony Juniper CBE has spent more than four decades at the frontline of nature conservation, from leading Friends of the Earth and advising the then Prince of Wales, to his current role as Chair of Natural England, the government's official body for nature conservation and restoration in England. A prolific author and broadcaster, Tony has campaigned on everything from tropical rainforests to the Climate Change Act 2008. A fitting guest to open the series on World Wildlife Day, he brings both the weight of policy experience and a genuine passion for what nature recovery looks like in practice.

Trailer WildKingdom and 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.