Across East London, something is taking root.
Wild Cities is building a 14-mile connected nature corridor through Haringey, Hackney, Tower Hamlets and Newham, linking community gardens, rooftops, canals, parks, football grounds and neighbourhood streets into pathways where pollinators can move and ecosystems can recover.
Every flower planted becomes a stepping stone. Multiplied across thousands of people and places, these small acts reshape the urban landscape, cool neighbourhoods and bring communities closer to nature and to each other.
We are building what comes next, with communities, organisations, landowners and citizens across the city.
Want to be part of it? Follow along and join us.
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Most of us grew up in cities built without nature in mind. The result: isolated green patches, disappearing pollinators, neighbourhoods that are hotter and greyer than they should be.
75% of food crops depend on animal pollination. Green corridors cool neighbourhoods by up to 7°C. The stakes are local. They're on your street.
Nature doesn't need much, just a way through. Wild Cities is building that: 14 miles of connected corridor across East London so ecosystems can move, recover and take root again.
We're doing this with communities, organisations and citizens across the city. Follow along and help us build what comes next.
Sources: IPBES Assessment on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production · City of London guidance, 2025
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Nature does not wait for the perfect conditions. It takes root wherever it can.
A balcony in Newham. A schoolyard in Hackney. A rooftop in Tower Hamlets. A backyard street in Haringey.
Small acts, multiplied across a city, that add up to something the urban landscape has never seen before.
From parks to balconies, Wild Cities is helping everyday spaces become part of a living ecological network across East London, aligned with London’s Local Nature Recovery Strategy.
The corridor does not grow only in parks. It grows from within the neighbourhoods themselves.
Follow us and be part of it.
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On Saturday (25 April), we walked. We sang. We sowed seeds into the ground and into each other.
Over 100 Londoners traced the future route of Wild Cities, from Walthamstow Wetlands to Victoria Park, in what became the most joyful possible way to mark the beginning of something real.
This is a small glimpse of the collective love that showed up.
Thank you to every person and organisation who walked with us, fed us, sang with us and held this vision alongside us.
@advaya.life@earthed.co@pilgrimtrust@schumachercollege@betheearth.foundation@vital.seeds@wearefooditude
And to the 20+ coalition partners across ecology, sport, culture, faith, grassroots communities and local government who are building this corridor borough by borough. You know who you are.
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Images by @vera.v.romanova
From Walthamstow Wetlands to the Thames, and from there into BBC London and Metro, the story began to travel.
Even before our first public moment last Saturday (25 April), when over 100 of us walked the future corridor together, it was already finding its way.
As BBC London reported, this is “a nature corridor being created to run through some of London’s most nature-deprived communities.” Time Out London described it as a project that “will transform four boroughs in east London.”
That idea has been picked up and interpreted by Metro, My London and Edie, each reflecting a different facet of the same need. A city that can cool itself. Space for nature to move. Children growing up with access to it as a given, not an exception.
The coalition is in place. The work is ongoing. It is now being recognised more widely.
We are grateful for the attention, and conscious of the responsibility that comes with it.
Long live Wild Cities!
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What a week to begin.
Wild Cities made its BBC London debut during Earth Day week, with Initiative Earth co-founder Christabel Reed sharing the story of a 14-mile nature corridor being built borough by borough, community by community.
A special thank you to @kibbokiftagency team and @samnarr for helping us reach places we had only dreamed of.
We are regreening cities as if our lives depend on it.
This is just the beginning.
