Nattergal Ltd

From all of us at Nattergal, we would like to wish you a very Happy Christmas and a Wild New Year. It’s been a monumental 12 months. We have closed a £40m fund raise, purchased our third Wildland, agreed on our first managed services site, secured our first BNG sales, achieved a UK landmark charismatic carbon trade with Naturalis, kick-started significant works on all our Wildlands, received the largest beaver licence in the country, grown our team from 7 to 17 and countless other milestones. We couldn't have achieved any of this without the support of all our collaborators. Most inspiring has been watching Nature starting to recover on the land we manage, even at this early stage in our journey. From a pair of cranes hatching a chick at High Fen to quadrupling the number of calling quails at Boothby, and delighting in the many oak saplings - veteran trees of the future - popping up all over Harold's Park, it is exciting to think what the coming months and years will bring. We'd like to extend our most sincere thanks to all of our supporters and we look forward to working together on the many exciting opportunities that lie ahead in 2025. +++   Images Clockwise from top left   ‘Rough & loose’ gets underway at Boothby Wildland + Winter tranquillity at High Fen Wildland + Barn owl at Boothby Wildland + Setting sun at Harold’s Park Wildland + High Fen Wildland on a frosty morning + Blue Earth Summit field trip to Harold’s Park Wildland   +++

🎁 The Gift of Nature | Rewilding Tours 2025 🌳 Tickets and vouchers for our 2025 tours are on sale now! Experiences are available at any of our three sites - Boothby, High Fen and Harold's Park, with prices starting from £30. The perfect gift for a Nature lover, and a chance to experience rewilding in its early years. Let us guide you through our wildlands, share uplifting examples of Nature recovery and explain our future vision. Follow us off the beaten track for unique insights, unexpected discoveries and fascinating accounts from the wild. - Rewilding Tours | Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Essex - Bird Ringing Demonstrations | Lincolnshire - Dawn Chorus Tours | Lincolnshire - Gift Vouchers Head over to our website for full details: https://lnkd.in/e2zf5xKd Image credit: Yellowhammer at Boothby by John Parsonage

I had a genuinely inspirational day at the Nattergal Ltd Boothby Wildland rewilding project in Lincolnshire yesterday being shown around by Ben Hart and Lloyd Park. It is a large site at 600 hectares and following three years of carefully managed retreat from farming - the last arable crops were harvested from the site this summer - the space already has the faintly magical, other-worldly quality of more established rewilding sites such as the Knepp Estate.   I'll be writing a lot more about the visit in the coming weeks, but there were two immediate impressions that are worth recounting.    The first is the remarkable pace with which nature can recover when it is given the space to do so. Boothby Wildland is only three years into a journey that is being planned on a century-long timescale. It is 17 years behind the much more established Knepp Estate. Conventional farming has only just halted on parts of the site. It was a cold and grey December day. And yet natural life was remarkably visible. In two hours we saw a stonechat, buzzards, two herds of deer, multiple grey herons, a flock of pink footed geese snaking across the sky, kestrels, a skylark, a sparrowhawk, a red kite, blackbirds, flocks of wood pigeons, a startled hare the size of a large dog, and several pheasants hoping to escape those farms where they will get shot at or run over. Next year the first wave of stock fences will go in and part of the site will become the UK's largest beaver habitat, as well as home to the first few wild pigs. Many more animals, large and small, will follow. The second crucial point about Nattergal is it is a commercial business. It has raised £40m and the plan is to build a world-leading nature restoration company that can make natural capital an investible asset. As in any new sector there are risks here, but the early signs are encouraging. The plan is to show how across a mix of sites it is possible to develop Biodiversity Net Gain credits, high integrity 'charismatic carbon' credits, and voluntary biodiversity credits that can be sold to developers and other companies. To that end, Boothby is currently one of the most monitored and tracked pieces of land in the UK, with multiple metrics creating a baseline from which Nattergal should be able to show its approaches have resulted to both a recovery of nature and a major expansion in natural carbon sinks. These credits should provide reliable revenues that can then be augmented through government subsidy schemes - the site is in the mix for the first wave of funding through Defra's Landscape Recovery Scheme - and eco-tourism and local business partnerships.    It is a hugely exciting and potentially transformative proposition. It will be fascinating to see how it evolves as both a home for nature and a commercial business.

Huge thanks to the Wildwood Trust for hosting the Nattergal Christmas team meet up. It was a real treat to tour the site and learn more about fascinating species such as European Bison, Eurasian Elk and European Grey Wolves. A particular highlight was the #BleanBisonProject, launched in 2019 by Wildwood Trust and Kent Wildlife Trust. Our wonderful hosts Paul Whitfield and Donovan Wright explained their plans to transform woodland management by reintroducing this missing keystone species. (Although European Bison were never native, their grazing behaviors are similar to Steppe Bison and other wild grazers that once inhabited the region.) It was a thoroughly enjoyable and hugely informative get-together and we leave with plenty of food for thought. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e6-sGakp

Today’s Investing in Nature panel brought incredible insights into trends and opportunities in nature-based investing 🌱 Rosie Riley was joined by Archie Struthers from Nattergal Ltd and Rich Stockdale PhD from Oxygen Conservation for a powerful discussion on making nature investable—scaling conservation and delivering sustainable impact for people and the planet 🌍 "The impact Archie and Rich are making already, in terms of restoring UK nature, is huge. The investor landscape is changing, private capital is really starting to flow and, with a few tweaks to the BNG market, investments into UK nature will accelerate." - Rosie Riley, Blue Earth Programme Editor #BlueEarthForum #NatureInvesting #ImpactInvesting

***Blue Earth Impact Investor Forum*** 3-4 December | Protein Studios, Shoreditch Tomorrow our CEO Archie Struthers Struthers will be joining Oxygen Conservation's Rich Stockdale PhD for an industry panel discussion moderated by Blue Earths co-founder Guy Hayler "From land restoration to biodiversity protection, striking the balance between the human needs for land resources, and preserving biodiversity and ecosystem health is challenging. Despite the perceived distance from this goal, our esteemed panel will share insights on how we're approaching this delicate balance. This session will uncover pathways towards sustainable coexistence with our planet's terrestrial ecosystems, guided by Sustainable Development Goal" 4 December | 11.30-1200  Forum - Blue Earth Summit Looking forward to a lively discussion and an engaging two days, aimed at channeling investment into the Sustainability Development Goals. 📷 Courtesy of Jannine Barron

🌟We're Hiring!🌟   To support our growing portfolio of rewilding sites, we are looking for two new team members who are passionate about Nature restoration. 🌿   🌟Boothby Wildland Site Manager🌟 Hybrid role based at Boothby Wildland Lincolnshire   With Lorienne Whittle stepping into an exciting new group role as 'Rewilding Landscapes Manager' the new Boothby Manager will take on Lorienne's former role near Grantham in Lincolnshire.    You'll oversee the day-to-day running of our Wildland, including Nature restoration activities, H&S processes and visitor management. You'll also be our main contact with Defra and Natural England as part of our Landscape Recovery pilot. An excellent communicator and passionate Nature lover, you'll have proven project management and line management experience. 🌳 https://lnkd.in/ddQqMr7D   🌟Operations Administrator🌟 Hybrid role based near any of our rewilding sites (Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Essex)   You'll play a vital role in ensuring our site-level operations are carried out in an effective, efficient, and safe manner. Duties will include site onboarding, procurement, budget preparation, stakeholder mapping and community coordination. This role is perfect for an experienced administrator with strong attention to detail and a love of Nature. 🌼   Follow the link for full details and applications: 🔗https://lnkd.in/ddQqMr7D        

🌟We're Hiring!🌟   To support our growing portfolio of rewilding sites, we are looking for two new team members who are passionate about Nature restoration. 🌿   🌟Boothby Wildland Site Manager🌟 Hybrid role based at Boothby Wildland Lincolnshire   With Lorienne Whittle stepping into an exciting new group role as 'Rewilding Landscapes Manager' the new Boothby Manager will take on Lorienne's former role near Grantham in Lincolnshire.    You'll oversee the day-to-day running of our Wildland, including Nature restoration activities, H&S processes and visitor management. You'll also be our main contact with Defra and Natural England as part of our Landscape Recovery pilot. An excellent communicator and passionate Nature lover, you'll have proven project management and line management experience. 🌳 https://lnkd.in/ddQqMr7D   🌟Operations Administrator🌟 Hybrid role based near any of our rewilding sites (Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Essex)   You'll play a vital role in ensuring our site-level operations are carried out in an effective, efficient, and safe manner. Duties will include site onboarding, procurement, budget preparation, stakeholder mapping and community coordination. This role is perfect for an experienced administrator with strong attention to detail and a love of Nature. 🌼   Follow the link for full details and applications: 🔗https://lnkd.in/ddQqMr7D        

***CIEEM Autumn Conference*** Delivering the gold standard in process-led Nature restoration. It's our privilege to be presenting at this week's Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM) event in Cardiff. You can hear from Nattergal's Landscape Ecologist, Rachel Blount on Day 2 (28 Nov) at 2.25pm. Rachel's session will cover: - How Nattergal deliver gold standard process-led Nature restoration - How to use Nature-tech and academic partnerships to measure success - How to use ‘management-centric’ tools such as the Statutory Biodiversity Metric in a minimum intervention system to sell ecosystem services on Nature recovery projects. Nattergal’s approach is to look forward and to create new and novel habitat mosaics, moving away from traditional target-led conservation towards a climate resilient, Nature-led system where humans lend a hand to kickstart Nature’s recovery but ultimately become superfluous to the system. Looking forward to an insightful two days.

Biodiversity Net Gain Conference | 25 November We're looking forward to being part of the Pinsent Masons and Cornerstone Barristers BNG Conference in London next week. Ivan de Klee will be speaking on behalf of Nattergal and discussing key issues with our friends and collaborators such as Pinsent Masons, Lifescape Project, RSK Group, BNGx, Natural England, Sophus zu Ermgassen, Phoebe Tucker, Glenn Anderson, Archie Ruggles-Brise, Alistair Maltby and more. The conference will cover legal perspectives, ecologist insights, habitat bank market trends, and best practices. Recordings will be available afterwards. To express interest, register here: https://lnkd.in/ehNbgJWk #BiodiversityNetGain #BNG #Sustainability #Environment #Conservation #Biodiversity #BNGConference