A living network for Recovery
A living network for Recovery
“Because the relationship between self and world is reciprocal, it is not a matter of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the Earth, the Earth heals us.” - Joanna Macy
Britain is one of the most nature-depleted countries in the world. Since 1900, we’ve seen a 20% decline in native species, and three-quarters of our land has been altered by human activity. Forests stand at just two-thirds of their pre-industrial extent, and habitats are increasingly fragmented by development, roads, and industry.
Ecological and social fragmentation mirror one another. We are growing corridors of connection, where nature’s recovery and people’s connection to place grow side by side. Connect the Wild links businesses with their local landscapes, accelerates restoration through Nature’s Loans, and opens opportunities for communities to get involved.
We pool small business donations into 'Nature's loans', creating interest free bridging finance so projects can start now and repay later through grants or land-based income. We are enabling finance to flow and therefore accelerate corridor recovery.
We are currently bringing together nature recovery organisations and local businesses to co-create a simple platform that works for everyone, making it easy and irresistible to contribute financially and socially to nature’s recovery.

Nature recovery loans provide much needed bridging finance.
Nature's Loans enable projects to start without delay.

We are co-creating a platform that works for businesses and for nature's recovery
Join us in developing a shared standard for business–nature partnerships
Humans are a keystone species. We have caused widespread devastation, degradation, and fragmentation. Habitats are broken into smaller, disconnected patches by industry, roads, and housing.
This fragmentation makes survival harder for species to maintain viable populations, and pushes many towards extinction. We have to take a landscape scale approach to 30by30.
We have a 20% decline in native species since 1900, 75% of land is altered by human activity, Forests have been cut to 68% of pre-industrial levels, urban areas have more than doubled since 1992.
But as a keystone species, we can shape, conserve and recover ecosystems, but first we have to remember how much we love the natural world. Local businesses and their employees need to be involved.


There are no corridors without farmers and land managers. You play a vital role in restoring nature and building climate resilience. We can explore nature finance opportunities, loans for nature as well corridor locations.

There are no corridors without collaboration. We are doing the hard work of building alliances that work. If you have a potential corridor in your area get in touch.

Corridors need communities. Local businesses and residents are essential to lasting restoration.
We pool business donations into Nature’s Loans, where one contribution funds many projects, and in return businesses build local connections, get out on the land, and deepen their relationship with the place they live.

Your county can build a corridor. We convene the people to make it happen.
If you want to be part of reviving these wild isles, get in touch.
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