The Nature Legacy
Turning forests into lasting environmental legacies
Forest Leaders’ The Nature Legacy is a practical way for landowners, businesses, families and communities to protect and enhance native biodiversity on private land.
Many properties contain areas of native forest, wetlands, gullies, streams, retired farmland, erosion prone land or production forest which could be managed differently. Often these areas have high environmental value, but they need funding, planning and long term management to reach their potential.
The Nature Legacy helps unlock this potential.
It brings together landowners, Forest Leaders, funders and supporters to create permanent nature projects with clear outcomes, practical management and a long term structure for care.
What is The Nature Legacy?
A Nature Legacy is a defined area of land managed for long term environmental gain.
Each project is different, but may include native forest protection, pest control, deer fencing, weed control, threatened species protection, native planting, wetland restoration, stream protection, carbon forestry, or the gradual transition of production forest into permanent native forest.
The aim is simple.
To create nature projects which are real, measurable and enduring.
Why Forest Leaders?
Forest Leaders works across forestry, carbon, land management and environmental restoration.
We understand how to take a project from idea to implementation. This includes assessing the land, setting the management objectives, working through carbon and forestry options, securing funding, coordinating contractors, managing compliance and reporting back to landowners and supporters.
The Nature Legacy has been developed by Forest Leaders to give private landowners a practical pathway to protect and improve important natural areas without leaving them to carry the full cost alone.
How it works
Forest Leaders works with landowners to identify a suitable project area and develop a long term Nature Legacy Plan.
This plan sets out the purpose of the project, the environmental values, the work required, the funding model, the role of the landowner, the role of Forest Leaders and the outcomes supporters can help achieve.
Supporters can then contribute to the project through Nature Legacy contributions. These contributions help fund establishment works and ongoing management.
Depending on the project, this may include fencing, pest control, trapping, ungulate removal, weed control, planting, monitoring, reporting and long term stewardship.
What contributors receive
The Nature Legacy Contributors are not buying carbon credits, biodiversity credits or a financial product.
They are helping fund practical environmental work on the ground.
Supporters receive a clear connection to a defined project, updates on progress and recognition for helping create a lasting environmental legacy. They are able to display The Nature Legacy logo on their products and business material.
For businesses, this provides a credible way to support nature, biodiversity and climate resilience through a project which is local, practical and professionally managed.
For families and individuals, it provides a meaningful way to leave a positive mark on the landscape.
For landowners
Many landowners want to protect native areas, retire difficult land, improve biodiversity or manage parts of their property differently. The challenge is often funding, time and long term coordination.
The Nature Legacy gives landowners a structure to do this.
Forest Leaders can help assess the opportunity, develop the project, seek funding, establish agreements, coordinate operations and provide ongoing management.
The land remains privately owned, while the environmental outcomes are planned, funded and delivered through a professional project structure.
For businesses
Businesses are increasingly looking for credible, local ways to support nature and show practical environmental leadership.
The Nature Legacy offers a direct link between business support and real land based outcomes.
Rather than broad claims or distant projects, supporters can contribute to a defined site, understand what is being done, and follow progress over time.
This may support a business’s sustainability story, staff engagement, community connection and broader environmental responsibility.
Built for the long term
Nature restoration takes time.
The Nature Legacy is designed around long term management, not one off activity.
The first stage of a project may involve fencing, pest control, planting or protection work. The longer term focus is on keeping the project healthy, improving ecological condition and adapting management as the site changes.
Forest Leaders’ role is to help keep the project active, accountable and moving forward.
A practical way to support nature
The Nature Legacy is for people and organisations who want to do more than talk about biodiversity.
It is a way to help fund real work, on real land, with real outcomes.
Forest Leaders is now developing Nature Legacy projects with landowners and supporters who want to help create lasting environmental value.
Start a Nature Legacy
Whether you are a landowner with an area of land worth protecting, or a supporter wanting to help fund practical environmental work, Forest Leaders can help.
Contact Forest Leaders to discuss how The Nature Legacy could work for you, your property, your business or your community.
Create your Nature Legacy
Every property has a story. Some also have the potential to become something lasting for native wildlife, local communities and future generations.
Forest Leaders is now looking for landowners, businesses and supporters who want to be part of The Nature Legacy.
If you own land with native forest, retired farmland, gullies, wetlands, streams, erosion prone land or areas suitable for long term restoration, we can help assess whether it could become a Nature Legacy project.
If you are a business, family, trust or individual wanting to support practical environmental work, we can connect you with a real project and show how your contribution can make a lasting difference.
Talk to Forest Leaders about creating or contributing to The Nature Legacy
Contact us today to discuss your property, your goals or your interest in contributing to one of our projects.
“When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
- Aldo Leopold,