Tellus is a nature-based project developer. We provide nature-based solutions to the climate & biodiversity crises.
Private companies, NGOs and governments across the world are rapidly trying to mobilise capital to solve the twin environmental crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. Tellus facilitates this by finding, developing and managing nature-based projects for our clients.
Why we exist
Tellus has a mission to rapidly protect and restore nature at scale.
After working in conservation, politics and business, along with leadership experience in the British Army, our founders understood that they were in a unique position to help relieve the lack of clear and reliable pathways for direct investment into nature-based projects.
We serve those who want to be actively involved in the direction and integrity of their environmental projects, facilitating the entire process of finding, developing and managing nature-based projects.
Jody Bragger
Angus Aitken
What we do
Tellus finds, develops and manages nature-based projects for our clients.
We find projects in areas of high biodiversity value with relevance to our clients interests.
We develop projects within globally recognised standards and methodologies.
We manage projects with local partners to ensure that the investor, nature and communities all benefit.
Tellus works with both investors and NGOs who want to achieve impact as well as natural asset owners who want to secure investment and funding.
Project investors
Nature Based funds
Corporations
HNWIs
NGOs
Family Offices
Natural-asset owners
NGOs
Governments
Community conservation projects
National Parks
Private Landowners
We specialise exclusively in the development of nature-based projects, because we know that protecting and restoring ecosystems is the most broadly beneficial, scalable and resilient means of tackling the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss.
How we operate
The core of our approach is to create permanently sustainable business models and market-based instruments that value the natural ecosystems they manage. They are sustainable in that they provide a return to our investors and they provide tangible benefits to the people who live in and call these landscapes home.
Healthy nature
The priority of any project is to restore and protect nature at scale. If we achieve this we are achieving our company’s mission. We can only do this if the project creates an attractive ROI. And this is only possible if the communities and those affected by the project feel like they stand to benefit from its success.
Healthy ROI
The specific goals may vary, but all our projects are guided by quantifiable metrics of ROI and measured against regular milestones. For private-sector clients our projects represent a high-value asset, but for natural-asset owners it’s often their entire livelihood, so we manage the performance of the project with the same level of rigour you’d expect in any other high pressure and high performance environment.
Healthy local communities
Environmental projects that prioritise social and economic co-benefits command a premium on any sellable assets such as carbon or nature credits. Healthy local communities are the single most important criteria for the long-term sustainability of any environmental project because they’re the strongest practical bulwark against many of the greatest threats to success - local buy-in, land-tenure conflict, lack of local ecological knowledge, unemployment, regulatory shift, corruption and cost-effective labour.