HEADTURNED Conservation, Biodiversity & Rewilding
HEADTURNED Foundation exists to protect life from the highest mountain ranges to the deepest oceans and everything in between. Land, soil, forests, lakes, streams, rivers, estuaries, and open ocean are treated as one connected system, not separate chapters.
The golden thread through everything we build
Conservation and biodiversity are not side programmes. They are the golden thread running through the HEADTURNED Foundation, the Sanctuary, the Innovation Hub, Vertical Farming, and the HEADTURNED PPV platform – and through the projects, partners, and sponsors we stand behind worldwide.
On our own 5,000-acre blueprint, we can prove what's possible: restoring habitats, rebuilding wildlife corridors, protecting water, and designing release sites. The Innovation Hub then turns that work into open blueprints, data, and tools. PPV-funded partnerships carry it further – backing conservation and rewilding projects on land and at sea, wherever the need is greatest.
Every decision is filtered through one test: does this help habitats recover – from soil to summit, from headwaters to ocean – and give more lives a chance to survive and thrive?
Habitat renewal & regeneration
Land and water treated as one living system.
Conservation begins with the ground under our feet — soils, roots, water, and the pathways that run from upland springs and wetlands all the way through rivers and estuaries to the open ocean. Every link in that chain matters, wherever we work.
Restoring lost habitats
Replanting native woodland, reviving grasslands, and protecting wetlands so birds, insects, pollinators, mammals, and aquatic life have places to feed, shelter, and recover.
Soil, water & flow
Treating healthy soils and clean water as non-negotiable — from ponds and streams to wider river systems, estuaries, and coastal zones. Guided by monitoring, mapping, and environmental design from the Innovation Hub.
Connected corridors
Hedgerows, tree lines, ponds, streams, and buffer zones linking the Sanctuary, Vertical Farming, and surrounding land into one continuous living network, flowing outward toward the wider watershed and sea.
Animal rehabilitation & release
A safe path from crisis to freedom.
The Sanctuary holds the animals. Conservation prepares the world they return to, and protects them when they can't go back.
For animals who can heal, conservation work creates soft landings: restored woodlands, quiet meadows, and protected wild zones where release is safe, ethical, and closely monitored.
For those who can't be released, the same science, mapping, and monitoring help us design the best possible long-term homes inside the Sanctuary itself, supported by the internal veterinary clinic and Innovation Hub teams.
You can read more about lifetime care and the Sanctuary promise on the Sanctuary page.
Rewilding programmes
Giving nature back the space it was promised.
Rewilding is not about walking away from land. It's about reducing pressure, restoring balance, and letting life take the lead again – safely, and for the long term.
On HEADTURNED land, rewilding means stepping back with intention: easing intensive use, planting for diversity, and letting natural processes shape the landscape wherever it's safe to do so.
Some areas will be quiet, human-free zones. Others will welcome carefully guided walks, citizen science days, and learning programmes – so people can see what recovery looks like up close, without disturbing it.
One planet. Every life.
From mountain ridgelines to deep ocean trenches, our work follows the water.
Forests, peatlands, rivers, estuaries, coral reefs, open sea – they are all part of the same living system. Mammals, birds, insects, marine life, and microscopic species each hold a piece of the stability we depend on.
HEADTURNED Foundation focuses on that full continuum: protecting headwaters and wetlands, restoring land and corridors, and backing projects that defend coastal and ocean life. Wherever habitats are under pressure, our goal is the same – to buy time, create space, and give nature room to recover.
The flow of impact
From our land, to ridge and reef, to deep ocean.
The Foundation treats every decision as part of one connected journey: work proven on our own land, translated into tools and data, amplified through HEADTURNED PPV, and placed in the hands of projects protecting habitats from mountain headwaters to open sea.
Our land & Sanctuary
5,000 acres of land, water, and habitats – plus the Sanctuary – where we test what real recovery looks like for animals, soils, and biodiversity.
Innovation Hub
Vets, ecologists, engineers, and data teams turn field work into blueprints, mapping, and tools that can be reused anywhere – from ridge lines to river mouths.
HEADTURNED PPV & sponsors
Stories, data, and live work shared on PPV channels create regenerative income streams and attract aligned sponsors – funding more conservation instead of more extraction.
Global ridge-to-reef projects
Funding, tools, and support flow out to partners on the front line – from upland rewilding and river restoration to estuary protection, coastal recovery, and deep ocean research and defence.
At every stage, the same question applies: does this choice lower harm, restore balance, and share power with the places and lives we depend on – instead of taking more than we give.
Backing others on the front line
Our work doesn't end at our boundary fence.
The HEADTURNED Foundation does the heavy lifting on its own land, but the purpose has always been global: to give conservation and rewilding projects – and the people behind them – the funding, tools, and visibility they need to protect habitats from ridge to reef, river to ocean.
Funding, tools & equipment
Seed funding, habitat tools, sensors, camera traps, and practical kit that helps partners restore land and water, monitor wildlife, and keep their work moving in the field.
Knowledge & professional support
Designs, data frameworks, and mentoring from the Innovation Hub – vets, ecologists, engineers, land and marine managers – helping projects build systems that last and scale.
PPV-powered revenue & sponsors
Access to the HEADTURNED PPV platform so partners can tell their stories to a global audience – with regenerative, ongoing revenue and sponsor support flowing back into their work. See how the PPV model works.
Some projects will begin on HEADTURNED land. Others will start thousands of miles away. In every case, the role is the same: to be the golden thread behind the work – connecting our platforms, partners, and sponsors so more habitats, on land and at sea, have a fighting chance.
Principles
The Choices Only We Can Make
Nature does not get to vote on land use plans; fishing quotas; or the design of our food systems. Humans make those choices; and we carry the responsibility for them.
The Foundation will apply a simple test to every program; are we taking more than we need; or are we sharing a resource that belongs to many. We will prioritise work that reduces unnecessary harm; removes wasteful or cruel practices; and restores what has been taken where we can.
Decision questions we will use
- Is this action necessary; or is it driven by convenience; habit; or profit alone.
- Who benefits; and who carries the cost; including animals; rivers; forests; and future generations.
- Can we meet the need in a way that involves less harm; more sharing; and more repair.
- Are we treating nature as a partner and teacher; or as a silent supplier.
These questions will shape funding priorities; partnerships; and how we speak about the work on HEADTURNED PPV channels. We will not get everything perfect; but we can choose to keep improving; in public.
Ethos
Compassion as Strength; Not Weakness
Your feelings matter. You feel joy and pain; fear and relief; so do animals; and so do the living systems we depend on. Compassion is not a soft extra; it is the hardest and most powerful work we can choose.
It is easier to ignore suffering than to protect life. It is easier to treat animals as objects than as beings with needs and experiences. The Foundation will support pathways that choose the harder route; to save; nurture; and protect life wherever we can.
How this will show up in practice
- Funding projects that reduce cruelty; unnecessary killing; or suffering in food systems and land use.
- Supporting alternatives to practices that treat animals as targets for sport or entertainment.
- Backing science and technology that replace harmful testing with humane; data driven methods.
- Giving space for stories of rescue; rehabilitation; coexistence; and everyday care.
To save a life; to rebuild a habitat; to change a habit; is harder than to take; but it is also far more rewarding. Together we can turn good into great; by choosing compassion first.
The golden thread of the Foundation
One framework, three pillars – and conservation holding it together.
Conservation and rewilding aren't extras around the edges. They are the connective tissue and golden thread that let each pillar do its job without costing the others – on our 5,000-acre blueprint and across the projects we support around the world.
Sanctuary
A forever place for animals in crisis – with routes into carefully restored habitats when release is safe and ethical. Visit the Sanctuary.
Innovation Hub
Leading teams, data, and design – from wildlife and water sensors to mapping and open-source blueprints that other projects can reuse and improve. This is where conservation is tested, refined, and made shareable.
Vertical Farming
Food grown upwards instead of outwards, easing pressure on fields and freeing up edges, buffers, and wild corridors so habitats can regenerate, not retreat. Less strain on land means more space for biodiversity – locally and, through shared models, globally.
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