When Wild Ken Hill, a coastal farm in Norfolk, began transforming 500 acres of poor, marginal farmland in 2019, the aim was to let nature recover with as little intervention as possible. Three years later, a repeat vegetation survey found that the average number of plant species in open parts of the rewilding area had almost doubled, from 16.8 in 2019 to 33.2 in 2022. The findings, published by the farm and supported by independent conservation bodies including Rewilding Britain, offer an early glimpse of how quickly biodiversity can respond when former farmland is given space to recover.
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