What happens when a group of conservation leaders from different countries, organisations and landscapes come together, not with a fixed project to implement, but with a shared curiosity about what they could learn and create together?  This is the story of the KAZA Leaders Lab.  When we started, we did not have a clear picture […]

This article was first published on the Ecosystems Innovation Substack by John Stubley, with sub editing by Sol Slattery and Shenali Perera. Follow Ecosystems Innovation for more insights from our colleagues in Western Australia on the world of restoration. Sometimes it takes a whole ecosystem to grow an ecosystem. That is what’s happening at the moment with a crowd-funding campaign for […]

Eco-systems transformation happens through a system being able to collectively see and sense itself as a system. To do this, different ways of mapping and mirroring are needed.

This article was first published on LinkedIn by Zlatina Tsvetkova. Read her original post here. One of the beautiful things about the Climate Carnival has been its intention to take the conversation beyond carbon credits and energy efficiency. We talked about resilience, ecosystem restoration, and nature-based approaches—not only to addressing the direct climate challenges we […]

This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn by Sigrid Nyambe. For more reflections from our team in Africa, follow the hashtag #commonlandinafrica What if the most valuable expertise in restoration is not found in a report, but in another community’s lived experience? That’s the question that sat at the heart of our recent Okavango Panhandle Transboundary Learning […]

This article was first published on the Ecosystems Innovation Substack by John Stubley, Sol Slattery and Shenali Perera. Follow Ecosystems Innovation for more insights from our colleagues in Western Australia on the world of restoration. Recent reflections by Commonland Founder Willem Ferwerda from a dialogue session at the COP17 UN Convention to Combat Desertification. As COP17 draws to a close today, […]

For as long as we’ve lived on the land, we’ve mapped it Early maps weren’t two-dimensional drawings, but living stories etched into memory and passed from generation to generation around the fire. What we now recognise as maps, flat, gridded and data-heavy, are just one way of understanding land. For many Indigenous cultures, mapping was […]

Over recent years, extreme weather has become the backdrop of our global climate dialogue. This year alone we have seen unprecedented wildfires sweeping through southern Europe and North America to catastrophic floods displacing millions in South Asia. With the frequency of these events only increasing, extreme weather has been oriented in the public discourse as being […]

Reflections from a gathering not just for landscape restoration advocates, but for those from technology, education, and beyond who want to learn how to create systems change for the health of ecosystems.

We had the privilege to attend this year’s second Go Falkland festival held at the Falkland Estate in Fife, Scotland. A new Scottish forum for “vital voices and hands-on practitioners in the fields of Regenerative Farming, Forestry and Food”, this gathering is a spin-off of Groundswell Festival and aims to bring farmers and other land stakeholders together to co-design “a healthier and fairer future for Scotland’s land use and food system”.  

People mark their calendars six months in advance for the biggest festival of the summer. They jostle to get tickets, compare the lineup to attend their favourite acts and pack their backpacks for a weekend of camping on the festival’s farm.    Glastonbury? You might be thinking. But you’d be wrong: we’re talking about Groundswell, a […]