Moths declined 88%, ground beetles 72% and butterflies 76% since 1970

Butterfly Conservation

‘Land use is going to have to change very urgently if we are going to meet our climate change demands,’

‘This is a time of radical change, close to revolution.’

Lord Deben, chair of the CCC in 2019

40 million more birds in our skies in 1966 RSPB 2019

Intensive food production has driven a loss of soil fertility, biodiversity and land degradation

Committee on Climate Change (CCC) 2019

Lost 97% of our wildland meadows since WW2 – or 7.5 million acres

Plantife 2015

41% of UK species are in headlong decline.

RSPB Report 2020

The UK is one of the least biodiverse countries in the world

Biodiversity intact index

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

Innovative new Environment and Agricultural laws and policies in UK and Europe soon, will revolutionise land use and land values, incentivising biodiversity restoration, reforestation and rewilding across huge swathes of the countryside

Developing Natural Capital funding streams and Biodiversity payments for ‘Public Good’ will make it very attractive to large landscape landowners

New ‘Conservation covenants’ & ongoing Business Relief for Inheritance Tax make investing in these nature based solutions very viable*

(*taxes subject to change)

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 3^rd 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.

LIKE TO KNOW MORE AS A PRIVATE WEALTH OR INVESTMENT MANAGER? CONTACT

Julian Matthews

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

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