Nattergal Ltd

This World Rewilding Day, we hosted a cross-industry group of sustainability leaders to launch our new nature restoration project at Boothby Wildland, alongside our partners Nattergal Ltd and Wilder Carbon. Together, we explored our collaborative approach to impactful environmental investment, long-term carbon sequestration, and scaling up nature-based solutions to harness nature as a powerful climate solution. Our key takeaways: - Organisations can take credible, tangible action to address the climate and biodiversity crisis today. - Allowing natural restoration to flourish can create climate-resilient, biodiverse landscapes. - Independent assurance and certification are crucial for diverse, effective nature-based solutions. Thank you to our speakers and guests: Joanna Rowelle,Paula Walsh, Ivan de Klee, Evan Bowen-Jones, and Tom Butterworth. #WeAreArup #NatureRestoration #CarbonSequestration #Sustainability #RewildingTogether

This #WorldRewildingDay, we celebrate the progress of our very first site, #BoothbyWildland in Lincolnshire. The three-year phased retreat from arable farming is now complete and Nature is taking the lead. In this short film, Nattergal’s Rewilding Landscapes Manager, Lorienne Whittle, explores the progress we’ve made, and our hopes for the future. Today, we are also co-hosting a special event with Arup, who have committed £1million towards Nature restoration at #BoothbyWildland, securing 10,000tCO2e of high-quality carbon removal credits over the next 30 years - certified by Wilder Carbon. Nattergal’s ambition of delivering Nature restoration at scale is only possible with the support of private finance, and we’re delighted to be joining Arup and Wilder Carbon to showcase this groundbreaking partnership. You can read more about Arup's commitment here. https://lnkd.in/eUvtB7M2

Last year, we were delighted to host James Murray, editor of BusinessGreen, at Boothby Wildland. It was a pleasure to read his views in last week's long-read dedicated to Nattergal. You can access a free seven day trial to Business Green on the link below, which will enable you to read the full article. In the meantime, this excerpt sums it up beautifully: "Nattergal is an evocative name for a genuinely inspiring venture. Just like the nightingale, the fledgling nature restoration sector faces plenty challenges, but it has a beautiful song to sing. It is a song that is in many ways priceless, but thanks to a mix of policy, technology innovation, and conservation expertise it could yet prove beguiling to investors." https://lnkd.in/ermsBg4F

*** BNG at High Fen Wildland *** We’re delighted to have partnered with Lifescape on the creation of a Conservation Covenant for High Fen Wildland. With this agreement in place, we are now able to provide Biodiversity Net Gain units from this stunning peatland site in the Fens NCA. In turn it will help us to restore Nature and improve biodiversity and water storage in this very special place. To secure BNG units from any of our wildlands visit https://lnkd.in/ew6uHPEN

***Arup and Nattergal agree landmark partnership to Restore Nature and Advance UK Nature-Based Carbon Removal*** We are pleased to announce that Arup has committed £1million towards Nature restoration at #BoothbyWildland, securing 10,000tCO2e of high-quality carbon removal credits over the next 30 years - certified by Wilder Carbon. Natasha Connolly, Net Zero Programme Director at Arup says “By investing upfront, we and our partners will accelerate the ambition and delivery of this Nature positive wilding scheme, while securing future carbon credits for Arup that support our journey to becoming a science-based net zero organisation by 2040.” Nattergal’s ambition to deliver Nature restoration at scale is only possible with the support of private finance, and we are delighted to see Arup leading the way in recognising Nature as an investable asset class. Read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/eaD82w_h Image credit Nattergal Ltd/Jonathan Perugia

🍃 Our brilliant Ecologist Rachel Blount will be sharing some of her vast knowledge on BNG at the upcoming CIEEM spring conference. Tickets and details in the link 👇

More good news for BNG. Nattergal has secured a Conservation Covenant with RSK Wilding for our Essex site, #HaroldsParkWildland in the Northern Thames Basin NCA. Our BNG units will now be added to the national register and the wildland will be compliance monitored by RSK for the next 30 years. Nattergal is proudly creating over 4,000 BNG (biodiversity net gain) units for developers across our three existing wildlands - with more sites planned for 2025! Find out more on our website: https://lnkd.in/ercppeZs

This week marks one year since the launch of Biodiversity Net Gain #BNG, the Government initiative which aims to ensure that development has a positive impact on our Natural environment   Since then, 43 Habitat banks have been listed on the National Register and tens of thousands of hectares of land are being restored for #Nature in the name of servicing a growing demand for units.    It is estimated that the BNG market, if correctly implemented, could be worth c. £200m annually - thus creating a potential £1bn pot for Nature by 2030. This is a significant step forward in closing the global biodiversity funding gap, whilst creating employment and upskilling local communities in the process.   Nattergal are proudly creating over 4,000 BNG Units across our landscape-scale wildlands, with more sites being added to our Nature restoration portfolio in 2025.    For more information about our high integrity BNG units, or to talk to a specialist, visit our web page: https://lnkd.in/ercppeZs

Newt News: A Win for Nature AND Developers In 2023, together with NatureSpace Partnership, as part of the Network Rail Organisational License, we set about restoring and creating ponds across #BoothbyWildland to rehome the #GreatCrestedNewt, allowing railway operations to progress. This week, the Newt Conservation Partnership issued their monitoring report and included a Boothby case study. “By 2024 Great Crested Newts were recorded in three of the six compensation ponds. What was arable land around the ponds is going through the rewilding process, becoming rough grassland providing good cover for the Newts on their short but potentially dangerous travels from the woodland to their breeding ponds. Great Crested Newts clearly took advantage of the new high-quality habitat very quickly. As other clean waterbodies are created or restored by the Nattergal team as part of the rewilding process, the Newts and the other plants and animals living in (or associated with) ponds will be able to once again thrive in this landscape” The report also notes that, as part of the wider programme: - Eight out of every 10 sites are colonised after 3+ years - The sites have double the occupancy rate of the average English pond. - More than half of the ponds created are already achieving ‘priority habitat’ status. - Four new ponds are created or restored for every occupied pond lost to development. A win for Developers AND for Nature. You can delve into the findings here: https://lnkd.in/ewXKWqbH - Image: some of the ponds created at Boothby Wildland

🌍 Celebrating World Wetlands Day 🌿 In December 2021, we purchased High Fen knowing that, if we can rewet the wildland, Nature can thrive here once again. For the past two years, we have been painstakingly studying the hydrology and geology of this precious peatland site in West Norfolk to understand how we might achieve this goal. Because, after decades of drainage and flood prevention measures, this special landscape that once enjoyed an abundance of wildlife is no longer functioning as it should. 🦋 Now, with our extensive studies complete, work has begun to realise our vision! Huge credit to our Natural Capital Manager Matthew Hay and our High Fen site manager Frank Street for getting us to this stage. 🙌 If you’d like to experience the magic of High Fen for yourself, check out our Tour dates here: https://lnkd.in/e2zf5xKd 🗓️✨ On the theme of wetlands, we are also happy to share with you a report issued today by the Global Rewilding Alliance entitled 'Taking Animals into Account,' spotlighting the crucial role of wild animals in the health and restoration of wetland ecosystems worldwide. The findings underscore the need to place wild animal species at the core of the ecological functional agenda of the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands – something we wholeheartedly agree on. 🌊🐾 You can read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/gT5iuBFJ