Tailored Solutions for Landowners & Land Managers, Investors & Buyers
WHAT WE DO
What we do
Swallowtail Consulting offers a complete turn-key service designed for landowners, investors, and buyers looking to make a real impact through natural capital and nature-based solutions. We work with clients to:
Conduct Feasibility Studies: Assessing a land area’s potential for nature markets, including Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), carbon credits, and natural flood management.
Provide Design & Planning Services: Tailoring strategies to incorporate sustainable practices that enhance both ecological and financial value.
Develop Financial Models: Offering clear, actionable financial projections that demonstrate the economic viability of nature-based projects.
Support Implementation: Guiding clients through the execution phase, ensuring seamless integration of sustainable practices and long-term results.
We are here to help you make the most of your land, whether by creating a biodiversity-rich landscape or by tapping into emerging markets such as carbon credits and natural capital investments. At Swallowtail, we guide you from concept to implementation, ensuring your projects are financially profitable and ecologically impactful.
Ecosystem services buyer
Whether you are an investor, buyer or land manager, our approach to working with you is underpinned by our project roadmap, developed through our experience and understanding of what it takes to succeed.
1. Understand
the opportunity
What’s the context? What’s working, what’s not working? How can things be done differently? How can we optimise land use?
2. Engage
Stakeholders
Who are the key stakeholders? Why would they want to be involved? What are the mutual benefits? We bring parties together and cultivate shared interests.
3. Project design
and vision
Develop a shared vision, be ambitious, and enable all stakeholders to visualise the whole. What could we achieve together?
8. Engage with buyers and investors
Develop the route to market, build interest, understand potential offtake, and develop a strategy for financing debt and working capital secured against future offtake.
9. Project implementation
Mobilise relevant delivery partners and roll out planned activities on the ground
10. Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (MRV)
Ongoing measuring/monitoring, reporting and verification of outcomes; registration and sale of units in relevant markets
4. Define the Natural Capital baseline
What is the baseline? Understand and quantify the potential to enhance the natural capital
5. Financial strategy
Understand cost of delivery, long-term management, capital costs & define + quantify potential revenue streams from private and public sources.
6. Technical feasibility
& design
Engage with experts to fully understand technical feasibility. Ecological, hydrological and financially viable.
7. Develop governance
and legal
Construct project governance, operating model, corporate vehicle and legal agreements
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Landowners & Land Managers
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For Buyers & Off-takers
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Investors
For Landowners & Land Managers
We help you make the most of your land, identifying, designing and supporting the implementation of nature-based solutions that deliver meaningful environmental outcomes such as enhanced biodiversity, improved soil health, whilst unlocking access to nature markets.
Key Services for Landowners & Land Managers:
Feasibility Studies: We assess your land's suitability for nature-based projects such as Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG), carbon sequestration, and natural flood management to help you understand your options and maximise your land’s value.
Sustainable Land Management Plans: Tailored strategies that combine your land's ecological health with profitable outcomes. Our plans aim to improve productivity while protecting and enhancing the environment.
Natural Capital Financial Modelling: We create robust financial models that integrate revenue opportunities and delivery costs, helping you capitalise on nature sustainably. Our plans highlight the potential revenue from environmental credits, such as carbon and biodiversity credits, alongside public finance opportunities, to create a blended finance model.
Grant and Incentive Access: We assist landowners and land managers in navigating government and private sector grants and incentives for conservation projects, such as the Environmental Land Management (ELM) scheme. We offer support across this process, from opportunity identification, application preparation and submission.
"Efficient, responsive and knowledgeable, the Swallowtail team have been instrumental in the design and development of Landscape Recovery plans in Norfolk"
David Marsham, West Norfolk Nature Network
For Buyers & Off-takers
As a buyer or off-taker of environmental credits, securing high-quality, verified assets is essential to meeting sustainability targets. Swallowtail helps you navigate the ever-growing supply of units, connecting you with projects that can deliver the high-impact, high-integrity credits you need. Given our end-to-end involvement, we can integrate buyers and off-takers into the design and deal-creation process and create bespoke Nature-based Solutions that meet your unique needs.
Key Services for Buyers & Off-takers:
Verified Credit Supply We connect you with projects that can offer verified carbon credits, biodiversity net gain (BNG) credits, and other natural capital assets that meet your sustainability requirements.
Sustainability Strategy Integration Our team works with buyers to integrate nature-based solutions and credit purchases into your corporate sustainability strategy, ensuring alignment with both environmental and business goals.
Market Intelligence & Credit Valuation We provide buyers with insights into the current market for environmental credits, helping you make informed decisions on the most effective and impactful credits to purchase.
Long-Term Credit Management: Swallowtail offers advisory services to manage your credit portfolio, ensuring your purchases remain compliant with regulatory frameworks and deliver the expected environmental benefits.
Since meeting and working with the Swallowtail team, I have been impressed at the deep knowledge that they bring of nature based solutions and even more impressed at the way in which they enthusiastically throw themselves into projects, remain open to new ideas and act as effective catalysts for others to take action
Peter Simpson,
Former CEO Anglian Water
Investors
Investing in natural capital is more than just a way to generate returns; it’s an opportunity to create a lasting positive impact on the environment. At Swallowtail, we help investors identify, model, and support high-quality, sustainable projects that align with both your financial goals and your environmental stewardship ambitions. Our direct relationships with both buyers / off-takers and land managers enable us to bring together stakeholders to co-create financially viable opportunities from the early stages of projects.
Key Services for Investors:
Investment Opportunities in Natural Capital: We connect investors with profitable, scalable natural capital projects, including carbon offset, biodiversity creation, and natural flood management opportunities, that provide both financial returns and positive environmental outcomes.
Market and Financial Analysis: Our team can provide comprehensive market research and financial modelling for nature-based investments, helping investors understand revenue potential, risk factors, and the long-term viability of projects.
Due Diligence & Risk Assessment: We help investors conduct thorough due diligence, ensuring projects align with sustainability goals and offer secure returns.
Project Management and Implementation: From initial planning to execution, we offer ongoing support to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in line with agreed sustainability outcomes.
