Wildlife Trusts Habitat Banking Investment Model
Project Overview
A group of Wildlife Trusts and Finance Earth have created an investment model to deliver Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) units with the use of upfront private finance, accelerating the delivery of high-quality local habitat banks. The partnership includes four Wildlife Trusts – Berks Bucks and Oxon, Warwickshire, Cheshire and Surrey – that will create and restore habitats across their counties. By using private investment to create the habitats in advance of BNG sales, the Wildlife Trusts will have a higher volume of ‘post-enhancement’ units that will support the financial viability of the project over the long-term and remove the time delay between nature loss from development and off-site habitat creation.