The Biome Hive

Nature knows how to organise at scale. Through innovation, we replicate the living system of the hive and drive it towards impact at scale.

Every organism has a role to play in the ecosystem and the Biome Hive are the connective tissue and delivery engine of the Project Biome ecosystem.

A mandate to drive impact at scale through radical collaboration, connection & innovation.

We Operate on a Living Systems Principle

Nature already knows how to organise at scale.

Inspired by the dynamics of a bee colony — decentralised, self-organising, collectively intelligent — the Biome Hive operates in the exact same way across a series of bioregions, inspiring them to work collectively, self organise and utilise each others strengths to create impact at scale.

Whether that is to restore watersheds, regenerate indigenous plants or enrich soil. Each bioregion is autonomous, yet deeply connected through a mycelial web. The Biome Hive acts to reconnect bioregions through shared services & resources, knowledge toward a regenerative mission.

The Hive does not act alone

It activates an entire ecosystem.

Project
Biome

Connective Tissue

Farmers Footprint

Farmers Footprint

Global Regenerative Agriculture Platform

Institute of Natural Law

Institute of Natural Law

Indigenous Principles & Natural Law

Biome Youth

Biome Youth

Next Generation Fellowship

Biome Constellation

Biome Constellation

Curated Partner Network

Biome Flow Fund

Biome Flow Fund

Catalytic Capital For Biological Wealth

5-Year
Impact Vision

We measure our impact according to 4 key dimensions. A bioregion is so much more than simply a project, but an entire ecosystem of delicate fabrics that when stitched together into a tapestry, it weaves a beautiful lattice of place, people, land & opportunity. We have made this our mission for the next 5 years to nurture the opportunities already in the landscape through radical collaboration.

Environmental

  • · Restore 100,000+ hectares of degraded landscapes and ecological corridors.
  • · Increase biodiversity and carbon sequestration through large-scale rewilding and restoration.

Social & Economic

  • · Generate 10,000+ community-based employment opportunities in restoration, agroecology and enterprise development.
  • · Strengthen local economies through regenerative agriculture, women-led initiatives, and smallholder market access.

Knowledge & Governance

  • · Creating a Southern African knowledge hub linking policy, science, and practice.
  • · Establish decentralised governance and bioregional coordination models to scale systemic impact.

Finance & Investment

  • · Mobilise blended finance from public, private, and philanthropic sources to unlock $50M+ over five years.
  • · Enable sustainable revenue streams via regenerative enterprise, ecosystem services, and market access.

5-Year Portfolio

17 Place-Based Initiatives on one unified regenerative mission. All doing their bit to push the needle on regenerative impact. How we unify this impact is through acting as the connective tissue to mobilise these incredible initiatives and organisations towards collective impact. Through our connective tissue approach our aim to support reconnection to people, place & resources.

Delivery & Acceleration

  • Bioregional Accelerator: weaves practitioners, projects and funders into bioregional networks to support each other. Learn More.
  • Heal the Planet: Led by the South African Organic Sector Organisation (SAOSO), Heal the Planet is a national programme advancing agroecology, food systems transformation, and ecosystem restoration through their SAOSO’s supportive programme. Learn More.
  • Ratanang Colab: A bioregional node whose focus is to develop their own farm and agricultural hub to serve as a community convening space and support network. Learn More.

Community-Led Regeneration

  • 10 Trees: 10 Trees is much more than a tree planting project. At the core of it is women’s empowerment, community development and transforming consciousness in relation to our connection to Nature. Learn More.
  • Abundant Village: Abundant Village works across some of the world’s most critical ecosystems, partnering with local communities and trusted local organisations to deliver long-term, large-scale, community-led conservation. Learn More.
  • Social Employment Fund (SEF): Avo Vision is a South African B2B (Business-to-Business) enterprise development firm and an implementing partner for South Africa’s government-backed Social Employment Fund (SEF), which forms part of the Presidential Stimulus package. Learn More.
  • IQ Wild: IQ Wild is a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO) dedicated to protecting South Africa’s biodiversity by addressing the socio-economic challenges of communities living alongside protected areas. Learn More.

Landscape Restoration

  • ReLISA: (Restoring Landscapes in South Africa) is a five-year initiative running from 2024 to 2029 to repair 100,000 hectares of damaged ecosystems and build climate resilience. Learn More.
  • ReWild Mpumalanga: is a landscape-scale environmental restoration initiative in South Africa focused on clearing invasive alien plants, reviving watershed health, and turning cleared biomass into biochar. Learn More.
  • ORKCA: ORKCA (Orange River-Karoo Conservation Area) is the managing custodian of a growing wilderness area in southern Namibia. Learn More.
  • Eden to Addo: Via living corridors they connect ecologically significant areas from Eden to Addo to protect biodiversity, restore ecosystem integrity, enable land restoration and foster sustainable livelihoods. Learn More.
  • Cape Peninsula Bioregion Alliance: A multi-stakeholder platform activating the Cape Peninsula as a functioning bioregion through coordinated restoration, rewilding, food systems transformation, and community engagement. Learn More.

Knowledge & Enterprise

  • KHSA: The Knowledge Hub for Organic Agriculture and Agroecology in Southern Africa (KHSA) connects knowledge, practice and policy to build resilient, equitable food systems. Learn More.
  • PGS: Participatory Guarantee Systems South Africa (PGS SA) are locally focused, peer-reviewed quality assurance systems that certify organic producers through active community participation, trust, and transparency. Learn More.
  • African Kingdom Regeneration: A pan-African initiative in collaboration with LCPA aimed at restoring ecological and cultural landscapes through regenerative development rooted in indigenous knowledge systems and governance structures of the 138 Kingdoms in Africa.
  • Hemp for Small-Scale Agriculture: A programme exploring hemp as a multi functional crop to enhance smallholder livelihoods, soil health, and climate resilience.
  • Impact Investment for Start-up SMMEs: An investment facilitation mechanism designed to unlock capital for early-stage regenerative organic agriculture enterprises through blended finance, incubation, and technical assistance.

Operating more like a hive than a machine.

Just as a hive, and the ecosystem around it, cannot function without bees, the Biome Hive cannot thrive in isolation. Our theory of change centres humans and connection at the heart of the Biome Hive.

This is how we humanise the experience. Impact metrics are more than numbers on a spreadsheet; they’re the lives of people. Restoration is more than planting a tree; it’s an entire ecosystem we’re creating; a nest, a burrow. Each node of existence flows into the next. Only through investment does this become more than a project; it becomes a living, breathing system.

We believe the flow of money is the catalyst for impact at scale, and that a single project funding stream cannot support the ecosystem we are trying to create. That’s why we rely on a blended finance model to deliver our impact at scale.

Philanthropic, public and private capital de-risked and geared toward rewilding, regeneration and reconnection weave together to drive incredible change.

Shared resources have always been part of the tapestry within a landscape. The key is reducing overheads through shared resources and radical collaboration; inspiring the work of empowerment and eliminating the dependency model that communities and organisations have long relied on.

The power of innovation makes so much of this trackable. Platforms like Backstory let us witness the emergence of organic farmers across a region, while helping customers find local, organic farmers near them.

None of this is possible without money that flows; we attach so many water-based terms to money, and at Project Biome, we see money in exactly the same way. When we channel the flow of money through the Biome Flow Fund to organisations and projects enacting our connective tissue, successful impact becomes inevitable.

We are not building programs.

We are building the conditions for life to thrive.

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