Restoration and Rewilding at Scale
Landscapes where restoration and rewilding is needed most tend to lack the capacity, infrastructure, and technology needed to support large-scale efforts.
RESTORATION AND REWILDING AT SCALE
Landscapes where restoration and rewilding are needed the most tend to lack the capacity, infrastructure and technology to support large-scale efforts. NATURAL STATE works with local communities, governments, and conservation leaders to design and implement large-scale restoration and rewilding projects. We build technical and institutional capacity, assist with technology and infrastructure and help to make the sites financially sustainable. Our main focal points for large-scale projects include species rewilding, natural regeneration, reforestation, positive grazing, and agroforestry. We are committed to measuring and demonstrating the biodiversity, carbon, and development impacts of each project.
FEATURED PROJECTS
Mt Kenya Landscape Restoration Project
NATURAL STATE is working with community and private conservancies in the Mt. Kenya Landscape to develop an integrated carbon and biodiversity credit that will sequester carbon, restore biodiversity and provide resources and benefits to the local communities. (learn more – this button will expand the article) The restoration will be achieved through grazing management, assisted natural regeneration, and where relevant, tree planting. In addition to carbon, our goal is to truly measure biodiversity and community impacts, set baselines and targets, and ensure projects are properly compensated for improvements in these areas. We want to move away from biodiversity and community benefits being an add-on or feel-good story. We believe projects that genuinely benefit the people and the planet should be properly incentivised.
Rewilding the Orange River-Karoo Landscape
NATURAL STATE is working with the Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area (ORKCA), local farmers and communities to connect and restore an area larger than Yellowstone. The objective is to ecologically restore the fragile semi-arid ecosystem, quadruple the number of native grazers and predators, restore wildlife migration patterns, secure 15M tCO2e and triple employment in the region through eco-tourism. The region is both culturally and ecologically important being the home of the Nama people and the only point where the succulent Karoo, Nama Karoo and Desert biomes all meet. Only 1% of the Nama Karoo is formally protected and the succulent Karoo is listed among the world’s top 25 biodiversity hotspots. This has the potential to be one of the largest restoration and rewilding projects in the world.