Bringing abandoned
land back to life

We create a home for wildlife and biodiversity, using nature-based methods to fast-forward natural processes by decades – and we do it on a large scale.

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Cyprus has a vast
reserveof unused land.

This makes up half of all abandoned land in the country and around 15% of the island’s total area.

Cyprus has a vast reserve of unused land
agricultural land

13,8%
agricultural land

infrastructure

19%
infrastructure

forests and natural vegetation

18,7%
forests and natural vegetation

unused or abandoned land

48,5%
unused or abandoned land

Cyprus has a vast reserve of unused land

Our goal is to kick-start resilient ecosystems across 138,750 hectares of abandoned land within 10 years and increase rainfall by 30%.

These lands are depleted, lie outside any economic use, and bring no income to their owners — yet they can become a home for wild nature.

Creating a resilient green cover across this area will increase rainfall by 30%. This will raise groundwater levels and help solve the problem of freshwater shortage on the island.

10-year vision.

To expand our operations to landscapes on the order of thousands of hectares, we must pass through several development phases.

01.

Adaptation of the restoration
technology to Cypriot
conditions.

Working on sites of up to 100 hectares to identify the most effective techniques for soil preparation, seeding, and accelerating natural regeneration.

02.

Scaling up the most effective methods across areas of up to 900 hectares.

Reducing the cost of restoring
one hectare to an absolute minimum.

03.

Establishment of a financial mechanism, an expert council, and ecosystem restoration protocols.

The financial mechanism will pay incentives to landowners who restore ecosystems on their land in accordance with our protocols, while the expert council will monitor the quality of the restoration work.

04.

In 10 years, we plan to establish permanent green cover over 13,750 hectares.

This will increase
precipitation levels.

+30%

Phase one of the project

Kick-starting ecosystems and accelerating growth

Observations by biologists show that ecosystems spread unevenly. The first pioneer plants establish themselves in the most favourable micro-sites and, year after year, gradually increase the area of vegetated land.

We replicate these natural processes: we deliberately create micro-sites where water accumulates, sow them with seeds of pioneer species, and add organic matter and microorganisms. In doing so, we initiate nutrient cycling as in nature, but at a much higher intensity, and each year we enrich the ecosystem with new species.

In this way, within just a few years we achieve accelerated biomass growth, shortening ecosystem development times by several decades.

Expansion and maturation
of the ecosystem

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We are starting the 2025–26 season with 9 hectares and will increase the restoration area
every year.

We are committed to continuously scaling our operations while simultaneously reducing the cost of cultivating resilient ecosystems.

In these areas we:

We identify suitable land parcels.

We negotiate with landowners

We obtain permits from the Forest Department and the Ministry of Agriculture for any activities carried out on protected land categories.

We monitor site condition.

We plan and reconfigure site topography.

We carry out large-scale native seed collection and revegetate new sites.

We manage ecosystems established in previous years

We implement fire protection measures on the sites.

We record progress on video and develop evidence-based outreach content for you, along with training materials for landowners.

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