Wild Legacy
WILD LEGACY
WILD:
Wilderness Integrity for Landscape Design.
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LEGACY:
Lasting Ecological Governance through Connectivity for Years to come.
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Ecological integrity is often overlooked in our interactions with the environment. That's why only an estimated 3%* of global ecosystems remain intact. Ecological recovery requires Rewilding at scale.
As a Global Nation despite efforts, recovery is not yet in sight.
Wild Legacy, informed by ecological realities, provides support for Rewilding and Ecological Recovery, delivering integrative strategies, working through collaboration, to deliver a blueprint for nature and guidance for humanity.
We are of the 'Earth' as the etymology of 'human' reminds us". Humus" signifies "earth" or "soil," thus linking man and soil together, to emphasise our innate and irrefutable connection. Our choice is whether these actions nurture or destroy, and whilst it sounds like a cliche, that decision will either nurture or destroy us too.
We can redirect the course of history and the time to do this is now. Using the best of our knowledge to inform decision making in a collaborative way, accepting Nature’s Intrinsic Right to exist, and learning to coexist and embrace compromise, can deliver.
Nature has compromised for long enough, now is time to reinstate ecological integrity.
Ecological Integrity
Learning to trust nature, combined with ecological mapping techniques provides a blueprint, informing strategies and through collaboration, we're able to develop & connect with consistency, at scale. With nature as a guide, we provide ecological behaviour programming as a base, and from this, problem solving, and implementation can be designed for optimised outcomes.
Intrinsic Rights
Rewilding recognises the intrinsic value of nature and challenges traditional view points favouring instrumental value at the expense of resilience and ecological integrity. The paradigm shift required for achieving a wilder world requires an acceptance of natures intrinsic rights. Our work incorporates this thinking and influences our communications and education programmes.
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Coexistence
Coexistence is another key component for effective rewilding. A wilder, more resilient and desirable future, can only be achieved by reframing our relationship with other species, to become 'a part of' rather than 'apart from'. This invites us to challenge perspectives leading to control and dominance, favouring acceptance and tolerance instead. Research proves this is possible and desirable, lets embrace compromise and consider the alternatives.
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Urgent Action
Current Projects Overview
Rewilding Strategies
Restoring Integrity to Ecosystems
True rewilding requires a paradigm shift where we lead with a deep and integral knowledge of natures needs. It is complex but extraordinary, and insightful. If we use this as a starting point and remain open to what that might mean for human decision making, we could start to see results. By incorporating this upfront in our ecological recovery planning, we can avoid mistakes that waste time and fail to deliver results. By integrating scientific rigour into rewilding and recovery strategies for ecological integrity, we are starting from a point of ecological reality. Then through working in collaboration with a range of best practice partners, we can all enjoy the results.
Innovative Finance and funding
Finding resource to scale-up as an urgent priority
There is a significant financial short fall in conservation investment of between US$ 598 billion and US$ 824 billion per year (2019).
Estimates for restoring restoring integrity and connectivity to what is left and expanding that network - are omitted from estimates.
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​The World Economic Forum estimates that US$ 44 trillion of global GDP, around half, is highly or moderately dependent on Nature. Simplistic estimates of carbon, value forests at US$ 100 trillion. In truth, this is a fraction of their value. Accurate evaluation is delaying scaling up what is required. A level of trust is needed by investors / governments that this is a must-do. Returns on investment are actually priceless.
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This is an 'Insurance Policy Investment' of invaluable proportions, not merely a 'conservation budget'. The return on investment will be way higher than we are close to calculating .
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Direct economic return seems a rather simplistic way to approach this. The right investors are see and understand this. The time to invest at scale is now.​​​
Intrinsic Rights of Nature
Re-thinking equality, giving land back to nature
Promoting the intrinsic right of nature to exist unhindered, rather than pushed to the point of collapse is something we as a global nation have been very slow to realise.
Conservation has always been a trade-off as a 'nice to have' in the context of winning priorities, consumption and growth. Part of effective planning and implementation requires complex assessment to ensure restoration in one area does not lead to loss elsewhere.
Current disconnect in thinking, and harsh competition for conservation resources, increases the likelihood of constant net loss. As shown above, the financial deficit needs redressing, and a deeper understanding of the scale, urgency and morality taken onboard. This is an key element for changing mind sets to align with the task at hand.