Our solutions and services are designed to meet the needs of our client, whilst also striving to achieve the best outcomes for nature on each site. No job is too large or too small. 

Our key service areas include:  

• Grassland Creation and Management  

• Woodland Creation and Management  

• Hedgerow and Scrub Creation and Management  

• Wetland and Pond Creation and Management  

• Invasive Species Control  

• Grounds management including factory, amenity and residential grounds  

• Management Plans & Advice  

• Bespoke Habitat Creation and Management tailored to each site 

• Natural Flood Management 

• Conservation Grazing using our homebred Highland cattle and our team of Exmoor ponies 

Our highly proficient and dedicated delivery team have many years’ experience in rural land management, large herbivore grazing, habitat creation and restoration, species introductions and delivery of agri-environment interventions, and we work across Derbyshire delivering an ever-growing number of conservation projects.  

The Rewilding Delivery team specialises in evidence-based and proven techniques and are driven by nature-based solutions and rewilding principles.  Detailed below are examples of recent projects and services, local and landscape-scale, that have been delivered by our team:  

We can create bespoke habitat and land management for your site - no matter the size or location. 

Informed by baseline surveys and drawing on over 60 years’ experience of advising on habitat creation and enhancement, we work with our clients to develop plans to support them to enhance and create new valuable habitats on their sites.  

Using our specialist local knowledge and understanding of the wider landscape, we design plans that not only deliver exceptional value for the people, places and wildlife on site, but also contribute towards the wider, landscape-scale nature recovery network.

We work with a number of companies, including Toyota, BASF and Nestle, to improve the value of their factory sites for nature, both through the provision of ecological surveys and developing site management plans via our Nature Recovery Advice team and land management and habitat creation from our Wilder Delivery team. For example, working with BASF, at their industrial site in Alfreton, we have transformed a small, disused area of amenity grassland into a space worthy of local wildlife site accreditation, hosting an array of important plants and invertebrates, including the protected and rare dingy skipper butterfly. 

At Wild Solutions we have our own herds of native breed Highland cattle and Exmoor ponies which deliver conservation grazing across the County as a paid for service.

Having our own large herbivores allows us to manage land in harmony with nature, delivering effective vegetation management in a low carbon, high nature way.  

As well as eating the vegetation, effectively delivering mowing or scrub cutting work, our livestock can reduce nutrient levels in soils by metabolising plants into body mass, allowing finer grasses and wildflowers to flourish. Their droppings support many invertebrate species which are the building blocks of most food chains and increase organic matter content in soils, allowing more carbon to be sequestered and better overall soil health. 

Our herds are well established, home bred and calm, well used to sites with high foot traffic or public access. Each species has its own unique way of eating different plants, bringing a diversity to land management that cannot be replicated with machinery and their day to day actions and interactions have myriad benefits for wildlife too whether they are grazing, browsing scrub species, rolling or exploring.  

We breed our own cattle which ensures we have confidence in their temperament being calm and hardy enough to live outdoors all year round with little or no supplementary feeding.

Biosecurity is very important to us and we take it very seriously, ensuring we have healthy and happy animals that are disease free and that we meet all regulatory requirements for livestock movements and reporting.  

We move our animals frequently from site to site, they are calm and docile to handle and load, travelling happily around to recreate the natural migratory behaviours large herbivores once had in our landscapes. All our animals are electric fence trained, allowing subtlety of movement restrictions to prevent damage to spring flowers or ground nesting birds.  

We also use the innovative No Fence technology with our cattle, which allows virtual fence lines to be drawn as needed, reducing the need for hard infrastructure and giving a unique flexibility compared to commercial livestock. We also have portable handling facilities and can provide an independent clean water supply if none exists on your land.  

Benefits of using DWT to deliver grazing; 

• A proven track record grazing a range of sites as a paid for service for private and public sector landowners, meeting the requirements of each grazing unit to achieve the desired outcomes and objectives. 

• Uncomplicated grazing advice with clear and agreed plans set in advance with the client, using KPI targets at regular intervals to ensure outcomes are achieved.  

• Professional and experienced staff who provide all necessary livestock care, who will respond to livestock emergencies and can move and catch animals calmly and safely. 

• Staff with experience of grazing and managing land under agri-environmental schemes such as Higher Level Stewardship and Basic Payment Schemes, the nuances involved in getting the delivery right and the ecological knowledge to converse with Natural England staff.  

• Staff who are fully conversant with the legal requirements involved with livestock care such as adhering to Cross Compliance rules, livestock reporting moves and qualified in areas such as correct use of medicines on land under Stewardship. 

• The capacity to reduce/remove stock levels at short notice as and when needed, in agreement or by request of the client or regulatory authorities. 

• Experienced in working with volunteers, Friends of groups and members of the public, managing their expectations and being able to communicate clearly the need for and benefits of grazing livestock.  

• Provide calm, quiet and healthy animals that are used to sites with high levels of public access and dog walkers. 

• Use of livestock breeds that are known to be efficient grazers even on sites with high levels of scrub or non-commercial grass swards, assisting with the management and control of non-native invasive species and non-desirable plants such as bracken, alder, willow, coarse grasses and bramble. 

We charge for our grazing service based on the amount of staff time each site needs, calculated as a number of per person staff days needed, at a standard day rate.  

Our day rate covers the following activities, all delivered by experienced and qualified staff; 

• Provision of livestock, numbers to suit each site/grazing regime 

• Catching, containing and moving/handling livestock 

• Complying with statutory Bovine Tb testing legislation as required including pre-movement, post-movement and yearly mandatory tests 

• Transporting animals on and off site 

• Setting up clean water supplies and refilling, as required 

• Giving supplementary hay during extreme weather events (we do not routinely supplementary feed any livestock) 

• Setting up and moving electric fencing where required or monitoring/adjusting Geo-fencing 

• Time spent on both routine and emergency medical treatments and welfare issues as required 

Each grazing contract is unique and the total cost varies depending on livestock type, site specific requirements, number of animals, length of stay and provision of extra infrastructure such as electric fencing, water and No Fence collars. We offer a free site suitability assessment and no-obligation quoting service before any grazing commences. .