Natural Returns
This land has been
working for a long time.
The marsh at the tide line. The bog that holds the rain. The forest growing back after the cut.
For the first time, there is a way to recognize what these places do — and to ensure the people who care for them share in that.
A program of Stranded Asset Management · Atlantic Canada
How it works
Measure. Restore. Return.
You don't need to understand carbon markets or biodiversity credit methodologies. You need to understand what your land is worth and how to get paid for it. That's what we do.
We establish what your land is doing ecologically — carbon it's storing, biodiversity it's supporting, water it's filtering. Using satellite data, field assessment, and established scientific methodology, we build a baseline that makes your land's value visible and verifiable.
Where your land has been degraded — drained, clearcut, farmed to exhaustion — we design and implement restoration that increases its ecological value. Working with our scientific partners, we restore function, not just appearance.
Verified ecological improvement generates income: biodiversity credits, blue carbon payments, conservation easements, ecosystem service agreements. We structure those payments to flow to you — while you keep your land, maintain your existing uses, and decide your own future. What the land gives, returned to the people who tend it.
In development — New Brunswick
Re-Peat
Peatland Restoration Carbon Credits
Re-Peat: early-stage. We’re assessing whether Verra’s VM0036 methodology for rewetting drained peatland could apply to privately owned, post-extraction sites in New Brunswick, and we’re speaking with scientists and landowners. There are no projects or credits yet.
CORPORATE PARTNERS
We support:
We strengthen:
In development — 2026
The Bay of Fundy Natural Capital Code
Bay of Fundy salt marsh: early-stage. We’re exploring a simplified credit program for coastal landowners, inspired by the UK Saltmarsh Code. Whether it can work depends on which sites qualify and on the regulatory framework. No program or payments exist yet. We’d welcome conversations, but we make no promises of income. Any project would be developed in partnership with Mi’kmaq and Wolastoqiyik Nations from the start.
