Twelve Bioregional Partnerships as part of the Living Systems Alliance
Celebrating the selection of twelve pioneering partnerships from across the world as our first LSA cohort
We are truly delighted to welcome twelve pioneering partnerships from across five continents to our first LSA cohort. These were selected, with great difficulty, from more than 130 excellent applications. In response to this high level of interest we are also creating a wider community of practice, a lighter touch co-learning journey, and are seeking additional funding to enable inclusion of many more of the incredible regions and applicants.
The Living Systems Alliance (LSA) was created to support the emergence and strengthening of regional partnerships, in the belief that this level of action - combined with an ecosystem orientation - can catalyse rapid regenerative change far beyond isolated initiatives and projects. Guided by the wisdom of local living systems and the lived experience of communities and practitioners, the LSA will support regions to develop deeper skills in reconnecting, learning, designing and deciding in partnership with nature—so that nature’s inherent value, agency, and more-than-human intelligence are centred in governance and place-based design.
The LSA inaugural Community of Practice launches on June 18th 2026. The regions and partnerships joining are local networks of multiple careholders, bridging civil society and grassroots groups together with public institutions, local government, researchers, faith groups and businesses. Over the coming year, we will collaborate through action learning and piloting to co-design an open, scalable toolkit for nature-centric design and decision-making. This will include a guide to place-based, living-systems-led practice, a biomimicry and “humans as keystone species” case study database, resources for nature-centric governance, and a training pathway to scale what works.
A Global Cohort Rooted in Place
These first 12 partnerships represent a rich diversity of ecosystems, cultures, governance approaches, and regenerative initiatives. Together they form a living laboratory for exploring nature-centred governance and design, regional collaboration, and practical pathways toward regenerative futures.
Over the next year, participants will learn from one another and the LSA partners, test new approaches, and contribute case studies, tools, and insights that will help communities worldwide strengthen their relationship with the living systems they depend upon.
From coral reefs in the Caribbean to wetlands in Uganda, from the Atlantic Forest of Brazil to the agricultural landscapes of Hungary, each partnership brings unique knowledge and experience while sharing a common commitment: working with communities, organisations, and the living world to regenerate place-based systems.
Toulouse Ville et Campagne, France
This pioneering network connects urban, suburban, and rural transition initiatives across southwest France. Bringing together local associations, researchers, community groups, and ecological innovators, the partnership is exploring how food systems can become a vehicle for ecological restoration while strengthening connections between city and countryside.
Living Systems Thailand
Based in Chonburi Province, this partnership demonstrates how the Sufficiency Economy Philosophy can be applied in practice. Through learning centres, ecological education, traditional medicine, and community networks that have reached more than 100,000 practitioners, the initiative offers a powerful example of whole-system regeneration in a rapidly developing region.
Koffi et les Écovillages du Togo
Working alongside local communities, government agencies, and the United Nations Development Programme, this partnership supports ecovillage development through renewable energy, sustainable agriculture, reforestation, and cultural preservation. Their work demonstrates how traditional knowledge and modern sustainability practices can reinforce one another.
Kiwaatule-2030, Uganda
Centred around the Nalubaaga Wetland in Kampala, Kiwaatule-2030 combines traditional Baganda governance, ecological restoration, and innovative digital participation tools. Local residents collaboratively direct resources toward restoring relationships between people, land, water, and community.
Sydney Eastern Heathway, Australia
This collaboration is working to reconnect fragmented urban landscapes through habitat corridors, regenerative economic models, and Earth-centred governance. Drawing on First Nations knowledge and contemporary systems thinking, the partnership seeks to restore ecological connectivity across one of Australia’s largest metropolitan regions.
Regeneramos Coquimbo, Chile
Operating in one of South America’s most climate-stressed regions, this emerging network brings together communities across three interconnected watersheds. Faced with prolonged drought and ecosystem degradation, partners are developing a bioregional weaving approach that supports collaboration, resilience, and regenerative solutions tailored to arid landscapes.
Teranga Alliance – Guardians of Paradise, Colombia
Located within a marine protected area in the Colombian Caribbean, this alliance works to transform tourism from an extractive industry into a regenerative force. Through coral restoration, environmental education, and community-led governance, the partnership is helping protect one of the region’s most important coastal ecosystems.
Transition Common Grounds, Brazil
Connecting urban and rural initiatives across Rio de Janeiro State, this partnership supports community resilience through agroecology, reforestation, regenerative enterprise development, and distributed leadership. Their work illustrates how networks can function as living systems, adapting and evolving through collaboration.
Community Catalysts of the Southwest Algarve, Portugal
This partnership is weaving together diverse grassroots initiatives across a region facing drought, wildfire risk, and social fragmentation. Using participatory design and regenerative frameworks, the network focuses on strengthening the relationships and collective intelligence needed for long-term bioregional stewardship.
ReThink Red Deer, Canada
Working across Central Alberta, ReThink Red Deer is building a coordinated regional approach to food resilience, land stewardship, inclusion, and anti-racism. The partnership places particular emphasis on Indigenous leadership, youth engagement, and creating practical pathways for community participation and employment.
We Are Avon, United Kingdom
Based within the Bristol Avon catchment, this growing alliance is bringing together citizen groups, farmers, legal advocates, researchers, and community organisations to address water pollution and ecological degradation. Through river pilgrimages, assemblies, festivals, and agroecological initiatives, the partnership is helping communities reconnect food, land, and water systems.
Zala Green Network Collective, Hungary
This rural partnership is strengthening community resilience through permaculture, agroecology, biodiversity conservation, and local economic development. Working in a region challenged by depopulation and industrial agriculture, the network is supporting practical alternatives rooted in community participation and ecological stewardship.
Learning Across Regions and Ecosystems
These partnerships represent tropical forests, marine ecosystems, wetlands, coastal regions, agricultural landscapes, urban catchments, mountains, and drylands. They bring experience in community governance, regenerative economies, rights of nature, ecological restoration, food sovereignty, Indigenous knowledge, and systems transformation.
By sharing their successes, challenges, and innovations, the cohort will contribute to a growing body of knowledge that supports communities everywhere to design, govern and regenerate in partnership with the living world.
We look forward to sharing stories, insights, and emerging resources that come out of this incredible group and our shared learning journey together throughout the year.
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