E161 Lara Salam & Doris Koeck: We Built a Nature Algorithm

Everyone thinks Oxygen Conservation is a land company.It’s not. It’s a data platform from its absolute DNA.In this rare behind-the-scenes conversation, Rich sits down with the team building the engine that powers every acquisition, every restoration plan, and every carbon model. From screening every square metre of the UK using 50+ datasets, to deploying drones capturing 3cm resolution imagery, to building digital terrain models and LiDAR maps that expose what the naked eye can’t see — this is the infrastructure beneath modern natural capital.They unpack how Monitoring, Reporting and Verification (MRV) is becoming the backbone of investable conservation, why most of the sector is still stuck in the analogue age of PDFs, and how data is transforming nature from “nice idea” into measurable asset class.If conservation is going to compete with private equity, real estate and infrastructure, it needs numbers, not narratives.This is the story of the operating system behind Scaling Conservation — and why the future of nature is digital.