Restoring the
natural world.
NATURAL STATE is catalysing large-scale restoration globally. We drive technology and financial innovation in the restoration sector and equip communities and practitioners with the skills, technology and finance to restore nature at scale.
10-year target: dollars of new funding into biodiversity, carbon and communities
10-year target: leaders supported in the sector
staff in an international team
What we measure
We are helping build the Nature Economy by providing the skills, technology, and systems needed to attract major investment in nature and local communities.
Ceciliah Mumbi, Field Researcher
Where the science meets the land.
At the base of Mt Kenya, surrounded by open grassland, shrubland, dense forest and wetlands, home to species from elephants to warthogs to dung beetles.
The land around it hosts pastoral community conservancies, smallholder agriculture, community forest reserves and private protected areas, alongside organisations testing innovative conservation and restoration.
Visit the Research CentreAddressing the barriers to scale.
Without capacity, robust monitoring and adequate financing, restoration will never reach the scale needed to mitigate climate change, reverse the extinction crisis or underpin the Sustainable Development Goals.
Restoration & rewilding at scale
Capacity and infrastructure where it is most needed, and blueprint projects that show how restoration works at landscape scale.
ExploreTechnology for impact monitoring
Revolutionising impact monitoring so the success or failure of interventions can be robustly and cost-effectively measured.
ExploreInnovative financing
Making restoration sustainable through financial mechanisms that reward verified outcomes for nature and people.
ExploreLeadership
Training African leaders to build and run large-scale nature restoration and regenerative agriculture projects.
ExploreHow a data point becomes funding.
Our audit-grade monitoring turns sensors in the field into finance that rewards verified outcomes. Press play.
Sense the landscape
Camera traps, acoustic sensors, carbon plots and a 440 km² LiDAR scan capture biodiversity and carbon at landscape scale.
- 90+ carbon pool plots
- 18 GEM plots
- 440 km² LiDAR
Kutuma ingests the data
Our Kutuma application rapidly ingests and sorts data from the field, primarily from remote sensors or AI.
- Field-to-cloud prototype
- Remote sensors
AI does the sorting
Models trained on our own data identify species and estimate carbon, above and below ground, for savannah systems.
- 133 bird calls
- 24 vertebrates
- Savannah carbon model
uKweli shows the trend
The uKweli portal presents trends in biodiversity, carbon and human wellbeing on an intuitive dashboard. Every data point has a digital footprint, so third parties can audit it.
- Biodiversity
- Carbon
- Human wellbeing
Finance follows the evidence
Robust data underpins high-integrity mechanisms: integrated carbon and biodiversity credits, rewilding units, custodian credits and impact bonds.
- Integrated credits
- Rewilding Units
- Impact bonds
Projects that benefit people get paid
We believe projects that genuinely benefit people and the planet should be properly incentivised, so communities can participate in, and benefit from, nature finance.
- Communities
- Custodians
- Local partners
Restoration, in practice.
From Mt Kenya to the Karoo and Canada’s east coast.
Mt Kenya Landscape Restoration
An integrated carbon and biodiversity credit with community and private conservancies.
Finance · NamibiaRewilding Units
Escrow finance for the Orange River Karoo, released only as milestones are verified.
Finance · Tanzania & CanadaLion Bond & Whale Bond
Pay-for-success impact bonds for coexistence on land and at sea.
Monitoring · XPRIZERainforest XPRIZE finals
One of 6 finalist teams for the $10 million prize.
Eight projects across restoration, monitoring, finance and leadership.
View all projectsGlobal solutions, from Africa.
Spin the globe to see our projects, then play a tour of our science and training network.
Where NATURAL STATE projects are under way. Tap one to fly the globe there.
The Research Centre is also the launchpad for a marine expansion through coastal partnerships.
Our science and training network, stop by stop. Press play to tour it.
Built, measured, piloted.
Plus 5-year and 10-year targets for technology, finance and leadership.
Our impactThe challenges are immense. Success is possible together.
NATURAL STATE is highly collaborative and committed to working with individuals and organisations who aspire to restore the natural world.