Highlands Rewilding seeks to help rewild and re-people the Scottish Highlands by increasing carbon sequestration, growing biodiversity, creating green new jobs and generating sustainable profit for purpose. By managing land this way, we aim to become a world leader in accelerating nature-based solutions that can help fight the existential and related crises of climate meltdown, biodiversity collapse, and social inequality, whilst helping to rebuild local economies. 

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We have a unique operating model combining three key elements:

1. Natural-capital data is the vital key to breakthrough: We aim to generate the data that can reliably underpin credits in natural-capital, so making the nature-recovery industry confidently investable, so helping tip it into the exponential growth needed for a liveable future. We target returns, rooted in our data-collection and processing, attractive enough to draw significant investment into our own business, scaling our nature-recovery operations, and building prosperity in the communities where we work

2. We are a mass ownership company

3. We are rooted in the communities where we work

 

Against a challenging backdrop for climate action, we have just released a new action plan for February to May 2025 encompassing the following key needs:

1. Raise at least £5m in a new fundraising round - targeting family offices, high net-worth individuals, progressive investment companies with new nature funds and government pension schemes and a few foundations

2. Sell some of our land and property

3. Strike a balance in our twin track of fundraising and asset sales

4. Position ourselves for growth as a data-led nature-recovery service provider - this will allow us to scale by offering services to landowners of all kinds, leveraging our strengths in data, science, and nature management, captured well in our recently published Fourth Annual Natural Capital Report.

 

Our offer to members: Highlands Rewilding would welcome the interest and engagement of KlimateNet members as investors, and/or buyers of assets that we can partner with in land management for nature recovery, and/or as clients for nature-related solutions, and/or any other ways they might think of to help us achieve our purpose of community-centred nature recovery taken to scale through rewilding.

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Jeremy Leggett, founder and CEO of Highlands Rewilding is a social entrepreneur, writer and climate campaigner. Prior to Highlands Rewilding, he founded Solarcentury, one of the world’s most respected solar energy companies. Jeremy holds a D.Phil in Earth Science from the University of Oxford and has written four books about the climate crisis, as he has experienced it on the front lines for three decades.

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🌍 Help Us Strengthen This Project – Your Insights Matter

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We’re inviting you to contribute your voice, expertise, and perspective to improve the impact of this project. Your input helps us and others build stronger, more transparent climate action. This is community-powered validation – and your contribution makes a difference.

🔹 Watch a quick video about the project
🔹 Share what you see on the ground – upload photos, videos, or short notes
🔹 Add your SWOT analysis –  Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats you notice?
🔹 Endorse the project if you believe in its purpose

Innovation & Impact

• The project turns an environmental problem (invasive species) into an economic opportunity.

• Biochar production has potential for both environmental restoration and local economic development.

• KlimateNet members are also investigating the option to produce biomass that could be buried underground 

 

Challenges

• Packaging is currently in large, impractical bags; smaller, more attractive packaging is needed for wider adoption.

• The market is challenged by cheaper imported charcoal

• Lack of formal accounting/reporting limits growth and transparency (cash-based business).

• Production is limited by expertise, funding, and the need for better equipment (e.g., machines to standardize charcoal shapes).

 

Future Needs and opportunities 

• Develop smaller packaging and clearer branding to distinguish Prosopis charcoal from traditional acacia charcoal.

• Secure funding to improve production technology and business operations.

• Explore use of Prosopis fruit as animal feed, requiring further research and equipment to process seeds for livestock health.

 

Success Metrics

• Volume of Prosopis removed and processed: DECAN produces 56 bags of 18kg each of charlcoal per month (tbc) i.e between 6 to 12 tonnes per year 

• Sales of biochar/charcoal (by unit/weight).

• Number of local jobs created.

• DECAN has direct access to less than 100 tonnes of prosopis biomass every year but there is massive potential in the country 

• Potential amount of tonnes of carbon  equivalent that could be removed by eradicating prosopis in Djibouti 

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🌍 Help Us Strengthen This Project – Your Insights Matter

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We’re inviting you to contribute your voice, expertise, and perspective to improve the impact of this project. Your input helps us and others build stronger, more transparent climate action. This is community-powered validation – and your contribution makes a difference.

🔹 Watch a quick video about the project
🔹 Share what you see on the ground – upload photos, videos, or short notes
🔹 Add your SWOT analysis –  Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats you notice?
🔹 Endorse the project if you believe in its purpose