SUPPORT UK NATURE RECOVERY WITH VOLUNTARY BIODIVERSITY CREDITS
Invest in impactful habitat restoration at Boothby Wildland from £180*
Whether you're a business demonstrating environmental leadership or an individual looking for a meaningful gift, each biodiversity credit supports the restoration and long-term protection of a traceable 9m² habitat tile within the Wildland in Lincolnshire.
Support the recovery of British Wildlife and the development of resilient landscapes
Create measurable environmental impact in the UK
Visit the Wildland to track the recovery of Nature over time
Receive transparent evidence of your contribution through Earthly's trusted platform
Build a positive Nature legacy, by helping restore habitats for at least 30 years
*£180.50 price excludes VAT
Your investment will fund practical habitat restoration such as pond creation, scrub establishment and grassland regeneration.
Together, these habitats improve biodiversity, support pollinators, store carbon and improve soil health, helping landscapes become more resilient to flooding and climate change.
How do the credits work?
Our voluntary biodiversity credit offering was designed to enable businesses and individuals to invest in impactful and durable ecosystem recovery, close to home in England. Our credits are:
9m² tiles, traceable through What3words (W3W) coordinates
Funding the restoration of scrub, grassland and pond habitats at Boothby Wildland in Lincolnshire
Priced to reflect the cost of restoring, enhancing and maintaining the habitats restored over a period of 30 years, in line with Defra’s Biodiversity Net Gain requirements
Located on land protected by a legal section 106 agreement to ensure that benefits will be delivered over the long term
Rated 8.2/10 by Earthly’s Keystone 3.0 methodology which looks at 160 metrics across carbon, biodiversity and community indicators. This is the highest VBC score across the platform*
*Find out what Keystone 3.0 is in FAQs below
Who are the credits for?
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Investing in UK Nature restoration is a tangible way for businesses to demonstrate environmental leadership by improving brand perception and creating a lasting legacy of Nature recovery.
Ideal if you want to:
Demonstrate environmental leadership by contributing to a local, measurable, transparent and long-term Nature-recovery project
Engage employees around a positive, local sustainability story
Complement climate and net-zero initiatives
Receive verified impact data and updates for sustainability reporting and stakeholder engagement
Support TNFD, SBTi and BCorp commitments with impact-driven actions
Create meaningful and distinctive gifts for clients and employees
Build a lasting legacy of UK Nature recovery through a scalable solution
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Supporting UK Nature restoration is a meaningful way to celebrate life's special moments while creating a lasting legacy for wildlife and future generations.
Ideal if you want to:
Support wildlife recovery
Give an impactful and lasting birthday, Christmas, wedding, or anniversary gift
Honour a loved one
Leave a positive legacy
What does a credit purchase include?
Every purchase includes:
What3words location for each credit purchased
Periodic progress updates from Boothby Wildland
Access to your Earthly customer portal where you can download social media assets, imagery, and documents to help you communicate about your investment
Restoration progress updates
Optional certificate on request
We recommend that you come and visit us at Boothby Wildland to witness the restoration underway.
About Boothby Wildland
Boothby Wildland, Nattergal’s first rewilding site, was once intensively farmed, but today it is being transformed into a landscape where Nature can recover at scale. By restoring a diverse mosaic of habitats, including species-rich grassland, ponds and scrub, we're creating the conditions for wildlife to return and natural processes to thrive.
This work matters because healthy, connected landscapes support far more than biodiversity. They help store carbon, improve soil health, reduce flood risk, enhance water quality and build resilience to a changing climate. Every voluntary biodiversity credit helps make this long-term restoration possible, creating lasting benefits for wildlife, people and the wider environment.
Science and verification
Biodiversity and climate benefits are monitored through standardised ecological surveys (bird, bat, insect transects), acoustic monitoring, soil sampling and hydrological assessments. We also collaborate with academic institutions to strengthen the scientific evidence-base for natural-process-led restoration and publish peer-reviewed papers whenever possible. Five PhD and nine Master’s students from seven universities are conducting research at Boothby Wildland.
Boothby Wildland has been rigorously evaluated using Earthly’s Keystone 3.0 assessment framework, analysing 160 data points across carbon, biodiversity and community engagement.
With 92% of projects failing Earthly’s screening, Boothby Wildland ranks in the top 8% and currently stands as Earthly’s highest‑scoring Voluntary Biodiversity Credit project, with a validation score of 8.2.
Community engagement
At Boothby, our commitment to Nature recovery extends beyond biodiversity alone. Through voluntary biodiversity credit purchases, supporters help us deliver not only long-term habitat restoration and species recovery, but also meaningful opportunities for people to connect with, learn from and enjoy the wild Nature. Together, we are creating lasting environmental and community benefits through initiatives such as volunteering, consultations and the expansions of the network of public footpaths across the site.
“Being a volunteer and having the chance to play a small part in contributing to restoring nature to how it should be, has been extremely powerful and rewarding for my heart and soul. One day I’ll walk the site with my children and be able to say “I helped create this”. We desperately need more investment and engagement like this across the country.”
- Pete Holland, Boothby Volunteer
You can learn more about the impact we’re making in our 2026 Impact Report.
Frequently asked questions
About Nature
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Nature underpins our wellbeing, economy and quality of life. Healthy ecosystems capture carbon, reduce flood risk, clean our water and air, support food production, and provide habitats for wildlife. Yet nature is declining across the UK, reducing these benefits and increasing risks to communities and businesses. Restoring nature helps build a more resilient and prosperous future.
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Reversing Nature's decline requires large-scale habitat restoration and long-term land management, both of which require significant funding. Public funding plays an important role, but it is not sufficient to deliver the scale of recovery needed. Private investment, including through voluntary biodiversity credits, can help close this funding gap and support lasting Nature recovery.
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Businesses depend on Nature more than they often realise. Healthy ecosystems help secure clean water, productive soils, climate resilience and other natural resources that underpin supply chains and economic activity. Investing in Nature can help companies support biodiversity recovery, demonstrate environmental leadership, respond to stakeholder expectations, and contribute to a more resilient economy and society.
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Nattergal’s projects are built on our commitment to deliver what is best for Nature and local communities. Rather than focusing on delivering a specific habitat type or a predefined list of species, we restore the natural processes that allow ecosystems to recover and thrive over the long term.
This process-led approach creates a rich mosaic of habitats, including wetlands, woodlands, scrub and grasslands, that can support a wide variety of wildlife. Just as diversification can reduce risk in an investment portfolio, diverse ecosystems are typically more resilient to environmental pressures such as drought, flooding and disease, helping to deliver lasting benefits for biodiversity, climate and people.
About voluntary biodiversity credits
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The Biodiversity Credit Alliance defines a biodiversity credit as a measurable and verifiable unit of positive biodiversity outcomes. Our voluntary biodiversity credits (VBCs) enable individuals and organisations to fund the restoration and long-term stewardship of habitats at Boothby Wildland, supporting real and measurable Nature recovery.
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Earthly is a platform that connects businesses and individuals with high-integrity nature and climate projects, including biodiversity and carbon initiatives. They help fund projects that restore nature, support communities, and create measurable environmental impact through their marketplace.
Our voluntary biodiversity credits are available to purchase through Earthly's platform.
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Purchasing a voluntary biodiversity credit does not transfer ownership of land or biodiversity units.
Instead, your investment directly funds habitat restoration and long-term management at Boothby Wildland, creating measurable environmental benefits that are independently verified.
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Both voluntary carbon and voluntary biodiversity credits contribute to an organisation’s environmental goals, however, they have different use cases.
Carbon credits focus on reducing, avoiding or removing greenhouse gas emissions and are measured in tonnes of CO₂e.
Voluntary biodiversity credits focus on restoring and enhancing ecosystems, habitats and species. While nature restoration can contribute to carbon sequestration, VBCs are designed to support broader biodiversity and ecosystem outcomes rather than carbon alone.
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Revenue from voluntary biodiversity credits helps fund habitat creation, ecological monitoring and long-term stewardship activities across Boothby Wildland, including pond creation, grassland regeneration, scrub establishment, river restoration and biodiversity monitoring. The site is legally protected by some section 106 agreements and conservation covenants, ensuring that the impact will be delivered over a minimum duration of 30 years, in line with the Biodiversity Net Gain regulation.
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No. You can purchase as few as one credit or buy multiple credits to scale your impact. Larger purchases enable you to support a greater area of habitat restoration at Boothby Wildland. You can track your impact and manage your portfolio through your Earthly customer portal, returning to purchase more if needed in the future.
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We encourage supporters to visit and experience the restoration journey first hand. You can do this in several ways:
Explore the site independently via more than 20km of public rights of way, which are accessible year-round.
Join one of our guided Wildland tours and experiences, including beaver enclosure tours and bird ringing demonstrations, which can be booked through our website.
Visit as part of a group, through team away days, corporate volunteering days or other organised activities that provide hands-on involvement in the restoration of Boothby Wildland.
Please note that the specific what3words locations associated with Earthly voluntary biodiversity credits are not generally accessible to the public, as some restoration areas are deliberately protected to minimise disturbance to wildlife. However, for larger supporters or organised groups, we may be able to arrange specialist site visits to relevant restoration areas.
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Yes. VBC purchasers receive transparent impact information through the Earthly platform that can support sustainability reporting and nature-related disclosures. The credits can help organisations demonstrate action in support of frameworks such as TNFD, SBTN and B Corp commitments, although purchasing credits alone does not constitute compliance with any specific framework or standard.
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Keystone 3.0 is Earthly's independent project assessment and verification framework. It evaluates Nature projects across 160 environmental and social indicators, including biodiversity, carbon, water and community outcomes. Boothby Wildland received a score of 8.2/10, making it one of the highest-scoring biodiversity credit projects on Earthly's platform. Our community score of 8.2 is the highest people score across the whole Earthly portfolio.
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Nature recovery is influenced by ecological processes and external factors, such as climate change, so we do not target any specific biodiversity outcomes. Instead, we aim to create biodiverse, resilient landscapes.
However, Boothby Wildland is legally secured for Nature restoration for at least 30 years through a Section 106 agreement, in line with the Biodiversity Net Gain requirements, and progress is monitored through ecological surveys and independent verification to provide confidence that long-term benefits are being delivered.
Help restore UK Nature
Whether you're looking to strengthen your organisation's environmental impact or give a meaningful gift, our voluntary biodiversity credits provide a simple way to support lasting Nature recovery.
For bespoke business packages or more information, email solutions@nattergal.com