Our Vision
A Wales where wild nature and communities thrive together, where ecosystems are fully restored and people rediscover their place within them.​ We want to see areas where nature is in charge, able to determine its own course.​​​
Our goal
To revive whole ecosystems, see native species return and flourish, and show the benefits of this approach in Wales.
To do this, we'll: ​
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Follow rewilding principles, introducing hardy cattle, ancient pigs and Welsh mountain ponies
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Restore the natural processes that create resilient and complex ecosystems
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Honour and amplify local history, heritage, and culture
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Involve communities and support the local economy
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Inspire new nature-based action across Wales
What benefits do we expect through our work?
Supporting Welsh Rural Communities
We’re building strong, lasting relationships with our neighbours and local communities, learning from each other as we go. Together, we’re celebrating the land’s culture and linguistic heritage - y Gymraeg - now and for future generations.
We’ll share the stories of historic landmarks on the land and preserve many of them long-term - and we invite you to share your stories about the area too.
Though the land we are securing is already open-access, we’ll maintain footpaths, improve accessibility, and ensure all visitors feel welcome. We want a diverse community to engage in nature recovery and benefit from it, including for health and wellbeing. We’ll host walks, talks, and activities for schools, organisations and groups. Sign up to our mailing list below for calendar updates.
The site’s regeneration will support the local economy through new job opportunities: from land and grazing management to infrastructure and ecological assessment. We’ll also encourage visitors to go to local pubs, hostels, and use local taxi services.
Reducing Flooding and Wildfire Risks
Our work will reduce the risks of flooding for downstream communities and prevent wildfires on the land, the severity and frequency of which are getting worse every year as the climate changes.
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Restored peatland and new tree and scrub vegetation will slow water runoff, reducing flows in periods of heavy rain that affect farmland or housing further down the catchment. This will in turn protect the soil and boost food security, increasing community resilience.
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Natural grazing creates a landscape with a mosaic of open spaces, wetter areas and tightly grazed lawn that act as firebreaks. An ecosystem that is diverse in both its vegetation structure and species composition is inherently more resilient to wildfires - and this is what we must restore.
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Throughout, we’ll carefully measure and monitor our impact.
Storing Carbon and Creating Wilder Carbon Systems
Our aim is to support Wales in tackling climate change. While ending fossil fuel use is essential, landowners also play a key role in restoring ecosystems and managing land sustainably, and Wales has huge untapped potential.
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We're restoring drained peatlands to capture carbon instead of release it, support rare species, and soak up water. With 90% of Welsh peatlands in poor condition, this is urgent work before further climate change damages it further.
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New plants and trees, and improved soils, will capture carbon, while the natural grazers’ manure will also store carbon in the ground.
Nature-led rewilding helps wildlife flourish at scale
At Tir Natur, we put wild nature at the heart of everything. For too long, it has been controlled, sidelined, or destroyed. We value nature for its own sake - and for the immeasurable benefits it brings to our lives.
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Following rewilding principles, we’re restoring ecosystems so that nature can shape its own future.
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An ecosystem is a community of living things interacting with each other and with the air, soil or water, creating a complex, balanced system where energy flows and nutrients cycle; supporting life.
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Our natural grazers - cattle, ponies, and pigs - create the wild and wonderful disturbances needed for diverse habitats to flourish, from seed-spreading to soil-tilling. This approach draws on Wales’s long tradition of low-impact, mixed grazing, a natural fit for rewilding.​
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Our free-roaming grazers will feed year-round on diverse, nutrient-rich plants. Like the traditional Welsh Cae Ysbyty (hospital field), the land will become a natural medicine cabinet, with no need for fertiliser or supplementary feed.​
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Without natural predators for the natural grazers, stock managers will maintain balance to prevent overgrazing. Occasionally, small amounts of wild-range beef and pork may be harvested as surplus, but not as a primary product.
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Instead of managing the land for specific species, we let nature lead, creating resilient, self-sustaining ecosystems. The recovery after the grazers' disturbance doesn't follow a single, predictable path, rather it is shaped by many, sometimes surprising forces. It’s a scalable, cost-effective response to the dual crises of nature loss and climate change, aligned with Wales’s 30by30 commitments under COP15 for Biodiversity.
We believe nature - full, wild, and abundant - will return. We hope to see pine martens, red squirrels, otters, and water voles on the land as habitats recover and wildlife corridors reconnect across the landscape.
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By restoring the ecosystems that underpin productive farming, we're also supporting local food security. Healthier habitats will boost pollinators and natural pest controllers like insects and birds, reducing the need for chemicals.​
Images: Pine Marten, Red Squirrel, Otter, Wetlands (Scotland: The Big Picture); Tree (Mike Richard), Curlew and Wildflowers (Shutterstock)