About me
Benedict Macdonald is a naturalist, conservationist, writer and producer. He has worked on series including Netflix's Emmy-award-winning series, Our Planet. Benedict’s first book, Rebirding, highlighted the need for mass-scale nature restoration across the UK. It was the winner of the Richard Jefferies Prize and inaugural winner of the Wainwright Prize for Writing on Global Conservation. Benedict's third book, Cornerstones, was a finalist in the 2022/2023 People's Book Prize. He is the founder and director of Restore, the UK’s specialist nature restoration organisation, which works with landowners and farmers across Britain to restore nature at scale – from land management to natural capital finance and species reintroduction.