Commonland

Commonland Working with partners in 20+ countries to restore degraded landscapes, and create brighter futures - for people, nature, community, and business.

Commonland is an international non-profit that supports people and organisations to restore landscapes and shape a regenerative future for all. With our holistic approach – underpinned by the 4 Returns Framework – people and organisations all over the world are working with nature and their community to restore landscapes. What we do:

All over the world, local organisations are working to restore the natural ecosystems we all depend on, and shift society towards a regenerative future. One where nature, communities, and economies thrive in harmony. We work closely with these organisations in 20+ countries to strengthen their work, spark collaboration, and share best practices at landscape level. By connecting them with funders, policy actors, businesses, and fellow changemakers, we amplify their impact at local, regional and global scale. Together with partners across sectors, we also work to shift financial flows and public policies towards creating regenerative land use systems. We advocate for tackling interlinked ecological, social, and economic issues in an integrated way through local, regenerative solutions. The result: Thriving ecosystems, economies, and communities for generations to come. The 4 Returns Framework:

- Return of Inspiration – Giving people hope and a sense of purpose.

- Return of Social Capital – Bringing back jobs, education and social connections.

- Return of Natural Capital – Restoring biodiversity and soils for healthy and resilient landscapes: reviving the ecological foundation of our societies and economies.

- Return of Financial Capital – Realising long-term sustainable income for communities and businesses.

❤️ Donate now to make an impact with us: https://commonland.com/donate/

Regenerating Mallorca from ridge to reef 🇪🇸Mass tourism and industrial agriculture have taken their toll on Mallorca’s l...
06/10/2026

Regenerating Mallorca from ridge to reef 🇪🇸

Mass tourism and industrial agriculture have taken their toll on Mallorca’s land, water, and cultural heritage. Now, a new alliance is taking shape to change that story.

Aliança Mar i Terra de Mallorca (the Mallorca land and sea alliance) unites local partners working to regenerate ecosystems and redefine the island’s complex relationship with the industries degrading it, like tourism.

The Alliance is currently building a plan for Mallorca that tackles degradation holistically by working with landowners, businesses, and communities across the island.

The goal? To channel collaboration and funding toward ecotourism, local food systems, and agricultural resilience.

Last month, alongside the facilitation team from Fundació Pioneers of our Time Commonland delivered a three-day workshop to support the Alliance to build a strong governance model, exploring how to involve more partners on the island and begin building a financial strategy.

We can’t wait to see what comes next!

Want to find out more? Check out our blog for the full update. Link in bio

04/10/2026

“The environmental movement is not about political parties, this is about our survival.”
 
Meet Astrid Vargas— a woman who’s dedicated her life to bringing species back from extinction. From the black-footed ferret in North America to the Iberian lynx in Spain, her work is rewilding our planet.
 
In this episode of the created in collaboration with Astrid unpacks why the environmental movement can’t be political.
 
Because here’s the thing: Nature doesn’t care about our politics. 

We all depend on landscapes and ecosystems- from the food to eat to the air we breath and everything in between. 
 
Tune in to hear her chat with Raphael Esterhazy about:
 
✅  The Iberian lynx’s epic comeback
🐝 Why butterflies and pollinators are disappearing (and why we should care)
🌱 How restoration creates jobs and biodiversity
💡 Why hope might be the most important tool in conservation
 
Listen now, link in bio.

02/10/2026

Are top predators the key to saving ecosystems?

In this episode of the made with conservation biologist Astrid Vargas unpacks trophic cascades, the silent decline of insects and pollinators, and why top predators can reshape entire ecosystems. She also tells the story of where farmers, entrepreneurs and local communities are bringing life back to one of Europe’s fastest desertifying regions.

It’s a conversation that reflects why we do the work we do at Commonland: local ownership, holistic thinking, and inspiration can save our ecosystems. We’ll leave it to Astrid to explain the rest!

Find the episode via the link in our bio and let us know what you think in the comments below 🔗

30/09/2026

There is a silent extinction happening in front of our eyes.
 
Astrid Vargas has spent her life bringing endangered species back from the brink, from the black-footed ferret in North America to the Iberian lynx in Spain. But there’s an even quieter extinction happening right in front of our eyes— and it will affect humanity’s very survival.
 
In this brand new episode of the created in collaboration with Astrid talks about the decline of pollinators like butterflies, and what is being done across landscapes to secure their survival and, in turn, our own.
 
This is a conversation about restoration, community, hope, and how we can help life flourish again.
 
🎧 Full conversation link in bio.

Spain’s national government came to see holistic landscape restoration in action.Recently, seven representatives from MI...
26/09/2026

Spain’s national government came to see holistic landscape restoration in action.

Recently, seven representatives from MITECO’s Directorate-General for Biodiversity — the team drafting Spain’s National Nature Restoration Plan — spent a day in Campo de Montiel (Castilla – La Mancha) with Fund. Inter. Rest. Eco. (FIRE) Commonland and La Red de Territorios Regenerativos

The visit took them to Navalab, an experimental farm where FIRE’s agroecological and forestry restoration practices are tested on the ground, and to a sheep farm and cheese dairy where the owner shared her transition to holistic management a year ago.

The conversations that followed covered how restoration movements are built from the ground up, how private finance can sit alongside public budgets in the National Plan, and how regional governments can be the bridge between local restoration work and national policy.

For La Red and FIRE, a national government taking time to see restoration on the ground and asking how to fund and formalise more of it is a sign that the political context around restoration is changing. The movement is growing. Visits like these are not only validation of good work but a concrete step toward making landscapes the national priority they always should have been!

21/09/2026

We are each individual threads, but together we are part of a beautiful tapestry 🧵🖼️
 
This video is from “Weaving Ecological Passion into Collective Action”, a gathering held on April 10th at where the River Barrow flows through County Carlow. Changemakers restoring landscapes from across Ireland came together to form connections, figure out how to tackle systemic barriers together, and grow stronger as one.
 
This event was the first on a pathway towards forming an Ireland-wide Bioregional Learning and Impact Network (BLIN). The idea is to develop a shared understanding of what high-quality bioregional practice looks like - through storytelling, conversations, hands-on activities, and time spent on the land - and then to take collective action.
 
We’re proud our colleague Pieter Ploeg and partner Sarah Prosser organised this event - and we’re so thrilled to support organisations like south east ireland in not only restoring the South East Ireland bioregion, but also connecting a growing movement across the island.
 
Want to discover more about what’s going on in Ireland? Check out and keep an eye out for our next video, where breaks down what a bioregion is.

20/09/2026

Why do some changes ripple out across landscapes, societies, and the world while others 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 change.
 
It argues that what you can see and measure is rarely what’s at the heart of the problem- asking us to look at the deeper driving forces behind why things are the way they are.
 
Today’s framework comes from John Kania, Mark Kramer, and Peter Senge’s 2018 paper The Water of Systems Change. This system is based on the work of Donella Meadows, check out our profile to find more about her work!
 
Where do you see your own work sitting in this structure? Are you working at the visible layer of policy and funding, the relational layer of trust and power-sharing, or trying to shift the mental models that hold the whole system in place?
 
We have a new blog up on our website unpacking this framework in detail. Interested? Click the link in our bio!

19/09/2026

What have you lost because of ecosystem degradation?
 
Sometimes it’s hope, sometimes it’s money, biodiversity, water, or even community.
 
In this new episode of the Deep Seed podcast, host talks with Commonland founder about the origins of the 4 Returns Framework. Willem reflects on his years of travel and the recurring theme of loss in the landscapes and communities he visited.
 
Willem realised: if we can describe a degraded ecosystem in terms of losses, we can also describe a regenerated ecosystem in terms of returns.
 
If you’re interested in the how and why behind restoring ecosystems — and why, from an ecologist’s perspective, we should have hope — you’ll want to catch this episode.
 
🎧 Listen to the conversation via the link in bio, and follow and for more

18/09/2026

A butterfly flaps its wings in Navarra, Spain, and the effects ripple outwards 🦋

Iberia faces desertification, wildfire, drought, and flash floods - the result of decades of industrial agriculture, deforestation, and rural depopulation, compounded by climate change.
 
But a growing movement is regenerating Iberia’s landscapes: La Red Ibérica de Territorios Regenerativos, the Iberian Network of Regenerative Territories, working to make the Iberian bioregion a global reference point for holistic landscape restoration.
 
In Spring 2026, members gathered in Oskotz, Navarra, with plenty to celebrate:
 
🌱  AlVelAl: 10 years, 600+ members, new Ecoregenerative certification
🪸 Aliança Mar i Terra Mallorca: first results from its Ridge to Reef model
🌾 Terres de l’Ebre: five farmers producing regenerative rice with private financing
🌲 Baixo Alentejo: five active communities of practice, from viticulture to agroforestry
🌍 A Regenerar: now reaching 60,000+ followers
🦋 The Roeper Foundation supported eight butterflies created across the network
 
As one participant said: “We are changing the landscape, but above all, we are changing the lives of people.”
 
The full story from the gathering is on our blog. Link in bio!

We’re hiring a Landscape Developer for UK & Ireland 🌍Commonland is looking for someone to support landscape partners acr...
18/09/2026

We’re hiring a Landscape Developer for UK & Ireland 🌍

Commonland is looking for someone to support landscape partners across the UK and Ireland; think unlocking nature finance, co-designing systemic responses to restoration barriers, and building fundraising strategy across the region.

32-40 hrs/week, remote within UK or Ireland, preferred start 1 December 2026.

Apply before 29.09.2026

Link for all the details and to apply, in bio!

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