The Forever Wild Initiative actively supports a balance between people's livelihoods and ecological wilderness values. By building an innovative legal and financial architecture, specifically embedding enforceable rights for nature, we can channel investment into ecologically and socially restorative economic activities.
SEFF: A construct for applied nature finance
The Forever Wild Initiative (FWI) has developed an ecological economics construct called a ‘Shared Earth’, designed to align economics, nature, and society at a landscape scale through enforceable governance.
A Shared Earth Finance Facility (SEFF) is the delivery vehicle for this construct. A SEFF is a long-term, portfolio structure that embeds nature as a rights-holder across its governance and corporate structures, links community participation to shared responsibility and benefit, and supports diversified revenue streams within one coherent framework.
A SEFF is designed via a structured, field-tested process. The sole purpose is to move scalable nature finance from intent to application.
This is not theoretical. Shared Earth principles have been designed, tested, and implemented in Australia within a complex, multi-asset and multi-revenue SEFF construct spanning more than 6,000 square kilometres referred to as the Western Deserts, in Western Australia.
The Initiative is now working on several other large-scale projects using the SEFF process, including via Isonde, our African-based subsidiary.
Please contact us to learn to discuss how our work can support your goals in nature finance.
