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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.

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

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

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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.

Hosting a Google Machine Learning for Birds Contest

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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.

Partnering with Social Carbon to Revolutionise Nature-Based Solutions

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

Advancing Nature Recovery in Kenya with Oxford University

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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

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

Using the Natural World to Remove Carbon

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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

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

Space for Nature

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Survey Finds Overwhelming Support for Conservation

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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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