OSPREY

Operating System Partnerships for Rewilding

Monetise your natural capital and ecosystem services

We support land owners facing increasingly complex and competing demands on limited land uses to pivot towards profitable nature positive business models, while creating benefits for local communities. With OSPREY, we co-design a roadmap to nature recovery and profitability with you.

Together, we create land management plans, and business models for carbon and biodiversity credit schemes.

Please contact us on the enquiry form below for more details and rates, letting us know about the location, size and status of your project.

Tell us about your land

How do OSPREY partnerships work?

No cost assessment of the baseline performance and natural capital opportunities of your land

At no upfront cost we articulate the baseline performance of your land area’s natural capital assets and their ecosystem services to help landowners identify the highest impact economic, ecological and social opportunities.

We quantify the carbon sequestration and biodiversity uplift forecasts, balancing timber requirements.

We can also identify and engage stakeholders and qualify community aspirations.
This baseline forms the basis for land management recommendations and plans, alongside ongoing monitoring of natural capital uplift.

Stakeholder and community engagement

Recent policy publications and guidelines shaping the development of Scotland’s natural capital market ensure that community benefits are integral to natural capital projects.

Both the UK and Scottish Governments are developing key frameworks, standards and wider guidance to underpin community interests in natural capital markets. We are an active part of co-designing these tools and our team has wide expertise in participative practices.

Working in partnership with local residents and anchor organisations, we map opportunities for generating social, economic and environmental benefits from high integrity natural capital projects.

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Project registration, data-driven insights, reporting and third party verification

We can apply for available grants and guide project registration.

We establish long-term partnership relationships with local contractors, create new jobs, and create data-driven landholding overviews. This enables our team to analyse and verify tangible progress, and present transparent insights for reporting and third-party verification.

Ongoing training and development

We provide OSPREY partners with ongoing training and access to the science and community teams’ rewilding and community engagement expertise to ensure long-term application of best practices.

Win:win share of carbon and biodiversity income

We are keen to help other rewilding and natural capital projects benefit from our experience and accelerate their pathways to carbon sequestration and biodiversity uplift. As such, we offer a cost-effective, service for partner projects via which everyone benefits:

You pay no upfront cost for the data acquisition on your estate and will share every detail of our findings with you.
We receive a share of any eventual natural capital net profits, in return for our initial investment.