ENVIRONMENTAL WINS 2019

Bats – 13 of the 18 bats
 UK species counted

Owls – All 5 species found

Nightingales – 34 territories
recorded at peak

Turtle doves – only growing
UK population

Purple Emperor Butterfly –
388 counted in one day
(Largest UK habitat)

Potential record for highest
density of birds in UK

3000 species found in
total in Knepp

75 nationally
scarce species

22 Red list birds recorded

Total Soil carbon doubled

Microbial biomass –
more than doubled

Fungal/Bacterial ratio 
recovered

FINANCIAL WINS 2019

Basic payment (BPS)
@ £205/ha
£202,000 (11%)

Environmental Stewardship
@ £191/ha
£202,000 (12%)

Commercial let of offices, warehouses, workshop
(130,000 sq ft)
£650,000 (£35%)

7 Houses released
from Agriculture
£120,000 (7%)

Organic free range livestock
(75 Tonnes LW) £120,000 (7%)

Leisure/Tourism
Camping/Glamping and Safaris
£500 (28%)

CONTACT US TO LEARN MORE ABOUT REAL WILD INVESTMENT

THE ‘STARTER’ REAL WILD TEAM

Julian Matthews
Shareholder/Exec, Director

Award winning pioneer in sustainable nature tourism as Founder and MD of a nature based travel company since 1996. Founder of TOFTigers, a nature stewardship charity in India. Head of Tiger forest rewilding project. Board member of US based wildlife agency, Wild Landscapes

Ben Goldsmith
Shareholder/advisor

Environmentalist and financier. Founder and CEO of investment firm Menhaden. Non-Exec Board member of UK Government’s  DEFRA. Co-founder of the UK Environmental Funders’ Network. He is rewilding is own farm in Somerset

Prof David Hill CBE
Shareholder/Non Exec

David is chairman of The Environment Bank working on biodiversity and habitat banking, Natural England Deputy Chair 2011- 2016. Board member of the UK Government’s Joint Nature Conservation Committee, and Ecosystem Markets Taskforce.

Martin Harper
Advisor

RSPB’s Global Conservation Director. Oversees conservation policy, advocacy, research & acquisition of nature reserves.  Rated 3rd most influential voice in conservation in UK today by BBC Wildlife Magazine.

Jake Fiennes
Advisor

Early pioneer in rewilding, Jake Fiennes is head of Conservation at the 25,000 acre Holkeim estate in Norfolk and its 3500 acre nature reserve. Before he managed the 5500 acre Raveningham Estate after spent 4 years at Knepp Wildlands in West Sussex.

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Julian Matthews

01963 824514 or 07977 443707
Email : julian@realwildestates.com