The Wild Britain Forum is an independent platform established to support long-term, large-scale nature recovery across the United Kingdom through coordination, governance, and institutional collaboration.
The Forum exists to address a persistent gap in Britain’s approach to nature restoration: while scientific understanding, local projects, and public interest are strong, efforts often remain fragmented across sectors, institutions, and geographies. Wild Britain Forum works to help bring greater coherence to this landscape by convening expertise from science, land management, policy, finance, and culture.
Rather than operating as a campaigning organisation, the Forum focuses on framework building — creating the conditions through which nature recovery can be delivered at scale and sustained over time. Its role is to help translate evidence and practice into shared principles, governance structures, and implementation pathways that institutions and practitioners can adopt.
The Wild Britain Forum acts as a convening and coordinating body, supporting collaboration between landowners, practitioners, public bodies, researchers, and investors, while helping align local action with broader national objectives. Its work is intended to complement, not replace, existing organisations and initiatives.
The Forum’s research, coordination, and operational activities are directed by WBF Environmental Restoration Ltd., a UK company limited by guarantee established to support the development and delivery of the initiative’s programmes, partnerships, and research activities. Certain charitable and grant-related activities may also be undertaken through aligned fiscal sponsorship and partnership arrangements where appropriate.
Through convenings such as the Linnean Assembly, alongside the development of the UK Nature Restoration Framework, the Forum aims to contribute to a durable and practical national approach to restoring Britain’s natural systems.
The Wild Britain Forum is supported through philanthropic funding, research partnerships, and institutional collaboration, with early support provided by HFF Nature.
