'Ripe for rewilding': Nattergal to restore 'largely ecologically degraded' Essex farm

Stuart Stone
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Credit: Nattergal

Nature restoration firm acquires historic Harold's Park in Essex as it unveils plans to restore local biodiversity and sell Biodiversity Net Gain credits to local developers

Nature restoration firm Nattergal has purchased an 11th century former mixed farm site in Essex once used by Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson for hunting deer and is now poised to turn the site into the...

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