Mapping sponsored rewilding projects with Yves Saint Laurent Beauté
CLIENT
Yves Saint Laurent Beauté
PROJECT
Rewild Our Earth projects on explorer.land
LOCATION
Global
SOLUTIONS
explorer.land
THE CLIENT
Yves Saint Laurent Beauté
Yves Saint Laurent Beauté works with Re:wild through its Rewild Our Earth initiative, supporting ecosystem restoration and biodiversity protection in priority landscapes around the world. Rewilding is a holistic approach to ecological restoration. It goes beyond planting trees. It focuses on giving nature the conditions to recover by restoring habitats, supporting native species, reducing pressure on ecosystems, and allowing natural processes to shape landscapes again.
Through the Rewild Our Earth initiative, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté supports rewilding projects in countries including Morocco, Haiti, Madagascar, Indonesia, and Canada. These projects address different ecological challenges, from desertification and forest loss to biodiversity protection and grassland conservation. explorer.land gives this global initiative a public, map-based space where people can explore the supported projects and better understand where the work is happening.
THE CHALLENGE
Making global sponsorship more concrete and transparent
Corporate support for nature restoration can be difficult to communicate well. A brand may support important conservation work, but from the outside, it is often hard to understand what that support means in practice. People want to know where the projects are, what ecosystems are involved, what activities are taking place, and how the work connects to biodiversity and local landscapes.
For Yves Saint Laurent Beauté and Re:wild, the challenge was to make the Rewild Our Earth initiative easier to explore:
→ Where are the supported rewilding projects located?
→ What is happening in each landscape?
→ Which ecosystems and species are being protected?
→ How can people understand the difference between the projects?
→ How can a global sponsorship initiative be shown without reducing it to a campaign message?
→ How can transparency be built through place, visuals, and project context?
Static campaign pages and reports can explain a commitment, but they rarely let people explore the landscapes behind it. Rewilding is place-based, ecological, and long-term. It needs a format that can show more than a claim.
THE PLATFORM
A public sponsor profile for rewilding projects
Yves Saint Laurent Beauté used explorer.land to present its supported rewilding projects through a dedicated sponsor profile. The profile creates one public entry point for the Rewild Our Earth initiative. Visitors can explore project locations on a map, move between different countries, view project information, and access visual material from the field. Instead of presenting the initiative only as a global commitment, explorer.land helps show the specific landscapes behind that commitment.
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Showing supported projects on a global map
explorer.land allows the Rewild Our Earth projects to be shown through an interactive map.
Visitors can explore supported landscapes in Morocco, Haiti, Madagascar, Indonesia, and Canada. The original case study highlights several examples: restoring 1,000 hectares in Morocco, supporting primary forest restoration in Haiti, planting more than 400,000 trees in Madagascar, protecting land and more than 350 species in Indonesia, and supporting grassland protection in Canada.
This gives people a clearer view of the initiative’s global reach while keeping each project connected to a real place
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Giving each landscape its own context
Each rewilding project has a different ecological story.
Desertification in Morocco is not the same as forest restoration in Haiti. Grassland conservation in Canada is not the same as biodiversity protection in Indonesia. Through explorer.land, each project can be presented with its own description, location, images, and landscape context.
This helps avoid a common problem in corporate nature communication: treating very different projects as one generic sustainability claim. The platform gives each place room to be understood on its own terms.
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Using 360° imagery to bring people closer to the field
360° drone imagery where integrated on explorer.land to give visitors a more immersive view of supported conservation landscapes. These panoramic visuals help users explore project areas from above and better understand the scale, terrain, and ecological context of the work. This kind of visual evidence does not replace monitoring or scientific reporting. But it helps make remote landscapes more accessible to people who may never visit them. For a global sponsorship initiative, this matters. It helps move communication from abstract support to a more direct sense of place.
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Connecting sponsorship with transparency
A sponsor profile on explorer.land gives stakeholders a clearer way to see which projects are supported and where they are located.
For Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, this creates a public reference point for its Rewild Our Earth initiative. For Re:wild and project partners, it helps bring visibility to field-level conservation and restoration work. For visitors, it provides a more concrete way to understand what the sponsorship supports. The value is not only visibility. It is clarity: a map-based way to connect a sponsor’s commitment with real landscapes and restoration activities.
THE RESULTS
A clearer public window into a global rewilding initiative
Through explorer.land, Yves Saint Laurent Beauté and Re:wild can present the Rewild Our Earth initiative in a more concrete and accessible way.
The platform helps show:
-> where supported projects are located,
-> what landscapes and ecosystems are involved,
-> how individual projects differ from one another,
-> how sponsorship connects to specific places,
-> how visual material can bring remote restoration sites closer to the public,
-> and how rewilding can be explained beyond campaign language.
For Yves Saint Laurent Beauté, explorer.land provides a transparent public profile for its global nature commitment.
For Re:wild and local project partners, it helps bring visibility to conservation work happening across different ecosystems.
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If your organization funds restoration, conservation, rewilding, or nature-based projects, explorer.land can help make that support easier to see and understand.
