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Nature Recovery Group

Collaborating to educate and upskill more people about biodiversity, nature positive solutions and their role in nature recovery.

The time for Nature is now

This will require significant investment but also a changed mindset, recognising and quantifying the benefits for business and society as a whole. There is a huge amount to do. Making the built environment, its environs and the vast amounts of corporate or publicly owned and stewarded green and blue infrastructure fit for nature recovery must be a collaborative effort.

Encouragingly, demand for nature positive solutions is being stimulated by the legislative and policy driven path towards biodiversity net gain and equivalents.

However, that is not the whole story. It is not possible to achieve net zero without nature recovery, and it will not be possible to achieve nature recovery without biodiversity.

Clients, planners, designers, contactors, FM service providers, suppliers and service users throughout the built environment sector can help make this happen.

Better for the environment, better for productivity, better for wellbeing.

About the Group:

Our Nature Recovery Leadership Group has a core focus for 2026-27:

” To enhance understanding and knowledge for protecting Nature including reporting on progress and challenges.“

There is a shared desire and need for all elements of School Partnership to engage. The group is already addressing the fast developing agendas for external reporting standards and addressing deep supply chain impacts, as well as meeting the challenges of delivering against mandatory biodiversity net gain and its equivalents.

Tasks being undertaken include:

  • Developing content to engage colleagues at all levels including project delivery, commercial, procurement, customers, and supply chain and in securing nature positive outcomes locally and globally;
  • Building an exciting and challenging events programme to engage and inform stakeholders;
  • Collaboration on net gain strategies and practice, creating case studies to demonstrate innovation and the art of the possible;
  • Developing and growing relationships with regulatory bodies, NGOs and corporate reporting stakeholder organisations.

2025/2026 Nature Recovery Group Update

To learn more about the group’s targets and objectives for 2025/2026, download the Business Plan below.

Download the business plan

2025/26 Nature Recovery Group Update

Group Events:

The Group has delivered several successful events so far, including a selection of virtual conferences which you can catch up on below.

An Introduction to Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) and the TNFD
In this webinar organised by the Nature Recovery Group, Julia Baker, Technical Director of Nature Services at Mott MacDonald helps you to gain an understanding of the principles and practice of Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), how BNG fits with the TNFD framework, how the TNFD framework is helping to create a global shift towards nature positive outcomes, and what this could mean for your business.
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Biodiversity Enhancement Policies across the UK: Similarities and Differences in England, Scotland and Wales
Watch this webinar recording to help you to gain an understanding of the different Biodiversity enhancement policies across the UK. It begins with an overview of mandatory BNG in England and then describes Scotland’s Net Positive Effects for Biodiversity and how this is emerging in practice, as well as exploring the policy principles on Net Benefits for Biodiversity in Wales and policy news from Northern Ireland.
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Biodiversity Net Gain: Beyond Legal Compliance - Virtual Conference
Watch the Nature Recovery Group's inaugural Virtual Conference. Here, we invited experts from the public and private sector (RSPB, National Grid, Redrow and NatureMetrics) to reflect on the first 3 months of statutory Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) in England.
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Speedy Hire's Nature Positive Roadmap
An overview of Nature Positive and why it is important for the built environment industry. Learn about the new Nature Positive Roadmap by Speedy Hire, and go behind the scenes to explore the roadmap actions that Speedy is taking and lessons to-date, as well as hints and tips that everyone can take to become Nature Positive.
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Nature Positive: Reporting & Disclosure on Nature-Related Impacts - Virtual Conference
The Supply Chain Sustainability School has been collaborating with the GFI (Green Finance Institute), who are acting on behalf of TNFD (the Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures) to help gain clarity on what future requirements might be and how School partners and members might best tackle this issue. This conference recording will update attendees on this work and give anyone new to this an introduction to the topic and information on what they can start to do straight away.
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Protecting Peatland: A key habitat with NatureScot and SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency) Webinar Recording
Listen to this webinar recording to gain a broader understanding of protecting, maintaining and restoring peatland, looking at good practise from Scotland where 20% of the land is peat bogs.
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Biodiversity Net Gain: One Year On - Virtual Conference Recording
It’s been a year since Biodiversity Net Gain became mandatory in England. What’s working? What’s not? And how are different sectors adapting? Watch this conference recording where we bring together voices from across the industry - clients, contractors, facilities managers, and sustainability leaders - to share on-the-ground experiences, real case studies, and strategic insights into BNG delivery and its equivalents across the UK.
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Managing Soils Sustainanly: Webinar Recording
This webinar recording focuses on soil as an ecosystem and as the foundation of terrestrial and much inland aquatic habitat creation, enhancement and restoration. However, to be effective, this approach must respect the complex role of soils, also considering climate factors (e.g. carbon and climate adaptation) and circular economy principles.
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Meet the Team:

Ben, Mark and Grace are here to help get Partners involved with the Nature Recovery Group.

Mark Turner
Group Lead
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Grace O'Connell
Group Support
Contact Grace
Ben Stone
Group Chair
Contact Ben

Meeting Dates:

The dates for all Nature Recovery Group meetings have now been set for 2026/27:

 Date/ TimeLocation
20th May 2026 – 10am-12pmMicrosoft Teams
23rd September 2026 – 10am-12pmMicrosoft Teams
13th November 2026 – 10am-12pmMicrosoft Teams

Meeting Notes:

Download notes from any of the previous Nature Recovery Group meetings below.

 

Learn more about becoming a Partner

Our Partners set the strategic direction of the School and identify key issues to address, new training to develop, supplier day and workshop content, and, just as importantly, ensure the good governance of the School.

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    Our Partners

    The Nature Recovery Group is a collaboration of Partners driving a common approach to upskill more people about biodiversity, its importance, nature positive solutions and their role in nature recovery.