Nature recovery: an investible asset class
This article was first published in the Financial Times.
I am lucky enough to be raising my family in south Somerset, where a once great wild wood pasture named Selwood is reawakening, inkblot-like, spreading outwards from a place called Brewham. Here, barbed wire fencing has been removed, field drains pulled up, ditches filled in, streams rewiggled, ghost ponds resurrected, and water eddies and pools naturally through the land.