Returning Life

The UK’s specialist nature restoration business

our services

Restore offers the full range of services for landowners to profitably return nature to their land. From 20-year vision reports to baseline surveys, land management, natural capital deals and species reintroduction, our business is designed to help landowners scale conservation across the UK.

Restore manages a growing nature restoration portfolio of tens of thousands of acres across the UK.

Restore specialises in highly ambitious ecological restoration projects for landowners across the UK, underpinned by the natural capital and financial advice needed to make these projects a reality.

From bio-abundance farming to full-spectrum ecological restoration above 10,000 acres, our clients come to us for a full transformation of the natural world, whether changing landscapes, enhancing farmland or reintroducing species. We are the only land-facing business for whom restoring nature itself is the primary objective.

Our bio-abundance farming package is designed to help landowners and farm clusters across the UK; delivering a resurgence in nature across the large areas we still require to grow our food.

ecological restoration

Restore’s best-known offering is a comprehensive ecological restoration package for landowners.

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abundance farming

Working across over 25,000 acres of farmed land, Restore specialises in restoring trophic cascades in the farmed landscape.

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natural capital

Restore’s financial team and network of partners specialise in making nature restoration viable & profitable.

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our vision

Restore and its team help landowners create landscapes that teem with life. We combine cutting-edge ecological restoration and nature friendly farming expertise with the financial support to make nature restoration truly viable.

our portfolio

Restore acts as the ecological restoration manager for some of Britain’s most ambitious nature restoration projects.  Whether nature-friendly farming or rewilding upland valleys, working with local people lies at the heart of what we do.

portfolio

We restore a riot of life to the land – from Hebridean islands to upland estates; from productive lowland farms to nature reserves.

Our portfolio of clients spans the UK and it’s a privilege to help them bring back to the land, alongside an army invaluable local stakeholders on the ground.

Pertwood Plain

In the largest grassland restoration project in southern England, almost 3000 acres of Wiltshire arable farming is about to go on a journey towards becoming a wild grazing plain.

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Taransay

Restore are privileged to be working with Taransay’s owners, the local community and the Operation Wallacea RePlanet Fund.

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Southill Wildland

Southill Estate in Bedfordshire has a long history of producing food beside wildlife, but is now seeking to restore the wider ecosystem.

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Dennington Turtles

The turtle dove faces national extinction within just a few years, so Restore have sprung into action to restore one of its last remaining strongholds.

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books

Many of our clients first come to Restore through the books written by our CEO.   These showcase our outstanding commitment to restoring the natural world, and our in-depth experience and expertise: the product of painstaking field study and lived experience.

meet the team

Our team are passionate about restoring nature at scale; bringing a wide array of talents from ecological restoration to natural capital, film & story to make nature restoration viable across the UK.

Benedict Macdonald

CEO & director

Ross Wingfield

COO & restoration lead

Inigo Weston

board director & financial adviser

Matthew Collis

lead ecologist

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