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NATURAL STATE Q1 UPDATES

Media Coverage Links 2026

Media Coverage Links & Message for Partners/Donors 

NATURAL STATE’s Centre for the Nature Economy on National Television! 

We are delighted to share that Natural State's Centre for the Nature Economy was recently featured on NTV Kenya, with a highlight on the recently completed two weeks on-site training for the inaugural Landscape Restoration Projects Course, 2026. 

The feature also highlights how indigenous knowledge is driving conservation and land restoration, and the communities who have been its guardians long before the world started paying attention. 

Thank you for being part of our journey as we grow and make impact within the communities and beyond! 

NATURAL STATE’s Centre for the Nature Economy on the Papers! 

The Standard Newspaper covered our Centre for the Nature Economy this week, and the headline says it better than we could: Africa shifts from aid to own climate solutions via Kenya hub. 
The piece captures something we think about every day. For too long, climate and biodiversity decisions have been designed in institutions far from the landscapes they aim to restore. Meanwhile, the communities managing those landscapes and rich in traditional knowledge have been largely excluded from the financial systems that place a value on them. 
One participant, Benedict Muyale from Kenya, put it simply: "Many projects fail not because communities lack knowledge, but because there are no systems to turn that knowledge into fundable projects." 
This is one of the gaps the Centre for the Nature Economy is working to close. 

Rainforest XPrize Finalists 

Team NATURAL STATE and team 'Welcome to the Jungle' are currently competing in the finals of the Rainforest XPrize, a global 5-year, $10 million competition that brings together cross-disciplinary teams to collaborate on the world's most urgent moonshots. â€‹

 

Our team includes conservationists, Indigenous scientists, engineers, roboticists, and others - to use novel technologies to document and protect tropical biodiversity.

REPORTS AND PUBLICATIONS

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NATURAL STATE has been officially approved as a PV Nature Data Analytics Provider

This means NATURAL STATE is now one of multiple providers that PV Nature projects can select to conduct data analysis in line with the PV Nature Methodology.

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Hosting a Google Machine Learning for Birds Contest

NATURAL STATE teamed up with Google and Cornell University to identify Eastern African bird species by sound through a machine learning competition. NATURAL STATE will test the developed algorithms at the Kenya research station. 

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Partnering with Social Carbon to Revolutionise Nature-Based Solutions

NATURAL STATE collaborates with the Social Carbon Foundation to develop a first-of-its-kind environmental asset, Nature Stewardship Credits. 

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Advancing Nature Recovery in Kenya with Oxford University

NATURAL STATE and the Leverhulme Center for Natural Recovery at Oxford University to co-fund postdoctoral researchers to increase our understanding of nature recovery.  

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NATURAL STATE Joins Illinois Tech at XPRIZE Rainforest Competition

Along with Purdue University, The Morton Arboretum, and Indigenous communities to collaborate to advance biodiversity monitoring and data collection.

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Using the Natural World to Remove Carbon

We are inches away from triggering a massive-scale forest restoration carbon market; therefore, there has never been a greater opportunity to invest in forest restoration than now.

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2024 Annual Report

There has never been a greater opportunity or a more important time to restore the natural world. Check out our 2024 Annual Report.

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Rainforest XPrize Finalists 

Team NATURAL STATE and team 'Welcome to the Jungle' are currently competing in the finals of the Rainforest XPrize, a global 5-year, $10 million competition that brings together cross-disciplinary teams to collaborate on the world's most urgent moonshots. â€‹

Our team includes conservationists, Indigenous scientists, engineers, roboticists, and others - to use novel technologies to document and protect tropical biodiversity.

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Space for Nature

NATURAL STATE teamed up with Google and Cornell University to identify Eastern African bird species by sound through a machine learning competition. NATURAL STATE will test the developed algorithms at the Kenya research station. 

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Survey Finds Overwhelming Support for Conservation

Jonathan Baillie's insights into a National Geographic survey of 12,000 adults in 12 countries, revealed overwhelming support for conservation, as well as knowledge gaps in subjects like extinction rates.

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