Country estates are unusual and complex enterprises, often comprising of quite different businesses across a variety of sectors.

Each estate operates differently, with revenues derived from sources as unique as the landscapes of which the owners are custodians. All have one thing in common in our experience - a desire to diversify their income streams.

A growing number of landowners are looking to nature restoration and rewilding - as both a practical contribution to combatting a changing climate and an innovative way to generate new sources of revenue. From selling biodiversity credits to developers through programmes like Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) in the UK, to spinning-up associated eco-tourism ventures - a bold few estate owners are leading the way, proving that nature restoration can also be great business.