The startup operates a rewilding initiative that establishes nature reserves designed to sequester carbon and enhance biodiversity while creating green jobs. By implementing nature-based solutions, the company addresses climate change, biodiversity loss, and land ownership inequality, providing measurable benefits for both the environment and local communities.
Funding
$11.7M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Land degradation and biodiversity loss are accelerating due to unsustainable land management practices, hindering carbon sequestration and ecosystem resilience. Existing approaches often fail to integrate community needs and lack robust, verifiable data to attract investment in nature-based solutions.
Solution
Highlands Rewilding offers comprehensive land management services designed to restore ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and create economic opportunities for local communities. Through its OSPREY partnership program, the company collaborates with landowners to develop and implement sustainable land-use models that monetize natural capital assets and ecosystem services. Highlands Rewilding leverages scientific expertise and advanced monitoring technologies to provide data-driven insights, enabling transparent reporting and third-party verification for high-integrity nature credit schemes. The company's approach integrates community engagement, ensuring that rewilding efforts deliver tangible benefits to local populations while maximizing carbon sequestration and biodiversity uplift.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes landowners, land managers, and investors seeking to implement sustainable land management practices, generate revenue from natural capital assets, and contribute to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.
Features
- Natural capital assessments to quantify carbon sequestration and biodiversity uplift potential
- Stakeholder and community engagement to ensure alignment with local needs and priorities
- Development of land management action plans tailored to specific ecological contexts
- Project registration and data management for transparent reporting and verification
- Ongoing training and development for OSPREY partners to promote best practices in rewilding
- Implementation of regenerative agriculture practices to improve soil health and biodiversity
- Peatland and marine restoration techniques to enhance carbon storage and ecosystem function
- Sustainable forestry management to balance timber requirements with biodiversity goals