Belmont Estate
Securing outcomes for people through habitat restoration
About
By rewilding and rewetting a once conventionally farmed landscape on the margins of Bristol, Belmont Estate in Somerset is delivering a range of important environmental and community benefits. These include natural process focused ecosystem restoration, reducing flood risk, improving water quality, and providing substantial educational and recreation opportunities. Join this webinar to hear how this private Estate came to deliver this wide range of public benefit, and how it is using mechanisms such as Biodiversity Net Gain to achieve more.
Speaker
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Gil Martin
Estate Manager
Gil Martin
Estate Manager
Gil Martin is the Estate Manager at Belmont, a regenerative estate just outside of Bristol with a mission of environmental restoration and the reconnection of people with nature, food, and themselves. Belmont aims to inspire community connection, restore biodiversity, and tackle climate change through nature-recovery and connection projects, rewilding, regenerative agriculture and outdoor shared experiences. Gil’s extensive career managing farms and estates across the country plus working for conservation NGOs such as the National Trust has led him to oversee Belmont’s ambitious plans for ecosystem restoration.