Eight businesses launch first-of-its-kind rewilding consortium to invest in Nature recovery at Boothby Wildland

Boothby Wildland, Lincolnshire

July 2026

• ‍Nattergal’s Boothby Wildland will enable Nature restoration for the newly launched QBE Buyer’s Club, which brings together eight businesses in the insurance supply chain

• The consortium has made a 50-year commitment to support restoration across 18 acres of Boothby Wildland, including wetland recovery linked to the reintroduction of beavers on the West Glen River

• The partnership demonstrates how businesses can collaborate to channel private finance into measurable Nature recovery through high-integrity natural capital markets

‍‍Eight businesses have launched a new rewilding consortium to invest in nature recovery at Nattergal’s Boothby Wildland in Lincolnshire.

‍The QBE Buyer’s Club, developed and brokered by Nature finance specialist Nature Broking, brings together eight businesses connected through QBE Insurance’s supply chain.

‍The first-of-its-kind consortium has made a 50-year commitment to fund restoration across 18 acres of Boothby Wildland, Nattergal’s flagship Nature recovery site. The project is expected to support the removal of 1,250 tonnes of carbon over its lifetime.

The partnership demonstrates how businesses can work together to invest directly in Nature recovery, creating measurable climate and biodiversity outcomes while supporting the restoration of ecologically degraded land. Rather than purchasing carbon credits in isolation, the Nature Restoration Consortium has pooled its commitment into a shared, upfront investment in a specific piece of land that members can visit, monitor, and report on over time.

At Boothby Wildland, Nattergal is restoring a 617-hectare former intensively managed landscape into a mosaic of grassland, wetland, woodland, and scrub habitats. The investment will contribute to the site’s wider recovery, including restoration of the West Glen river system, wetland creation, improved water quality, and biodiversity recovery.

Claire Traynor, Chief Commercial Officer at Nattergal, said: “At Nattergal, we believe collaboration multiplies impact, and this partnership epitomises that. By bringing together a collective of businesses to co-invest upfront in the long-term restoration of Boothby Wildland, the QBE Buyers Club is meaningfully contributing to scaled, measurable environmental outcomes while demonstrating a credible model for private investment in Nature. We hope it inspires others to take a similarly ambitious approach.

Paddy Linighan, Chief Sustainability Officer at Clyde & Co said: “Sustainability in professional services is often framed as an individual commitment, what each firm does within its own walls. The QBE Buyers Club is a different proposition entirely: it asks what becomes possible when businesses invest together, across the relationships that already connect them. For Clyde & Co, that question is exactly the right one to be asking.”

Luke Baldwin, CEO, Nature Broking, said: "The voluntary carbon market works best when buyers are connected to the land they’re funding. They can visit it, see it change, and show their stakeholders something real. The QBE Buyers Club is innovative, and the numbers speak for themselves, but the eye test is even more powerful. The project is rightly exciting for conservationists and the companies alike."

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Notes to Editors

About the Nature Broking Consortium

The Nature Broking Consortium brings together eight businesses connected through QBE’s claims supply chain: QBE, DWF, Sedgwick, Clyde & Co, Prism Network, FMG Group, Jonathan Lloyd Commercial Salvage and Davies Group. The consortium has made a 50-year commitment to fund nature restoration and carbon credit generation across 18 dedicated acres at Boothby Wildland in Lincolnshire.

About Nattergal
Nattergal is a UK-based award-winning Nature restoration company, restoring ecologically degraded landscapes at scale and channelling private finance to fund its work. In doing so, Nattergal is demonstrating that Nature is an investable asset class, part of our critical national infrastructure that delivers lasting environmental, social, and economic value.

Nature recovery is at the heart of Nattergal’s mission, reinstating natural processes to create resilient ecosystems that will sustain over the long term. Their work is funded through the commercialisation of natural capital, such as Biodiversity Net Gain units, charismatic carbon credits, and other emerging market mechanisms that result from ecosystem services.

The projects also benefit from some grant funding, including the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs’ Landscape Recovery scheme.

Nattergal’s growing portfolio includes Boothby Wildland in Lincolnshire, Harold’s Park Wildland in Essex, and High Fen Wildland in Norfolk, sites spanning over 1000 hectares and representing a mosaic of habitats, from lowland peat to woodlands, meadows and rivers. It draws learnings from two decades of Knepp, the premier rewilding project in the UK, in which it has its origins. In 2024 Nattergal closed a £40m seed funding round, including investment from Aviva, alongside its cornerstone investor Lansdowne Partners and others.

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