Cornerstones: Wild Forces That Can Change Our World

About Benedict Macdonald

Benedict Macdonald is a naturalist conservationist writer and producer. Having studied wildlife since a very early age Benedict attended Christ Church Oxford before pursuing a career in natural history film-making. He has worked on various TV series including The One Show Springwatch and The Hunt and as a field director for Netflix's Emmy-award-winning series Our Planet. Benedict also directed two BAFTA-nominated wildlife series for Apple TV+. His 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. Ben's second book Orchard: A Year in England's Eden has also won critical acclaim and his third book Cornerstones was a finalist in the 2022/2023 People's Book Prize. As a conservationist Ben has remained at the forefront of public discourse on rewilding nature restoration regenerative farming and reintroducing lost species to the UK. Ben previously worked as Head of Nature Restoration for Real Wild Estates and is now the founder and director of rewilding business Restore which lobbies for the economic and social imperatives of large-scale landscape restoration and species reintroduction in the UK.