From the Serra de Tramuntana mountains   From terraced olive groves and dense forest to coastal dunes, cliffs, and seagrass meadows, Mallorca’s ecosystems are remarkably diverse.   Tourism drives the economy here, but it also places immense pressure on the land, water, and cultural heritage. Decades of mass tourism, urban development, and industrial agriculture degraded Mallorca’s land, […]

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.

The Values for Land-From Degradation to Opportunity In 2026, our long standing partner-organisation Economics of Land Degradation (ELD) Initiative marks its 15th anniversary, celebrating a journey defined by one central idea: turning degradation into opportunity. Over the past decade and a half, ELD has worked at the intersection of science, economics, and policy to demonstrate that sustainable land management […]

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 […]

Seven representatives from Spain’s Directorate-General for Biodiversity, part of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), recently participated in a landscape visit hosted by FIRE and Commonland in the Campo de Montiel landscape (Castilla – La Mancha) one of the key landscapes in La Red de Territorios Regenerativos (The Network of Regenerative Territories).  […]

Why do some changes ripple out across landscapes, societies, and the world- while others stay stuck or are fleeting and short-lived? The Six Conditions for Systems Change framework offers a suggestion (and a warning); the changes that are easiest to implement are not necessarily the ones that create lasting systematic change.  Today’s framework comes from […]

Reflections from the annual meeting of the Iberian Network for Regenerative Territories   This was the question on everyone’s lips at a recent gathering of the Iberian Nework of Regenerative Territories (La Red Ibérica de Territorios Regenerativos), bringing together restoration leaders from across the Iberian Peninsula to advance the network’s collective goal of making the Iberian […]

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, […]

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. A recent article in The Guardian reveals the ongoing importance of NGOs in addressing global landscape restoration. This week sees […]