Reweaver Studios works at the intersection of biodiversity, culture, and capital — partnering with funders, conservation organisations, partnerships, and place-based custodians to design and resource initiatives that reweave nature, story, and finance into regenerative futures.
Our work begins with place, but it is built for a global challenge: how to move capital, attention, and care into nature and culture in ways that honour custodianship, restore biodiversity, strengthen local economies, and support community-defined futures..
About Reweaver Studios
Our Mission
To help nature, culture, and place unlock regenerative value — by reweaving ecology, memory, local knowledge, partnership, and finance.
We partner with local custodians, institutions, and aligned organisations to make overlooked ecological and cultural value visible, fundable, and locally governed — supporting thriving landscapes, resilient economies, and community-rooted opportunities.
Many of the world's most important landscapes for biodiversity and climate resilience are also cultural landscapes. They hold stories, spiritual relationships, livelihoods, local knowledge, and memories of dispossession.
Yet these forms of value are often invisible to finance, absent from public imagination, and disconnected from the communities closest to them.
Why Reweaver Exists
We believe wealth in nature and place is multi-layered — living ecosystems, culture, relationships, heritage, knowledge, and future potential. By making these deeper forms of value visible, investable, and locally governed, new pathways for regeneration can emerge.
We are inspired by principles such as Buen Vivir — “Living Well” — which recognise that a good life depends on healthy relationships between people, community, territory, and the more-than-human world.
The Reweaver Method
From story to capital. From place to portfolio. From insight to initiative.
Reweaver uses a disciplined but place-sensitive method to surface ecological and cultural value, and to design strategies, initiatives, and landscapes that are coherent, fundable, & locally rooted.
The method applies at multiple scales — from a single initiative or proposal, to a regional activation, to a full living landscape.
Founder Story
Reweaver Studios was founded by Dimitri Selibas, a biodiversity and climate practitioner with experience across Africa and Latin America.
His background includes Chartered Accountancy training, grantmaking, climate and biodiversity finance, and the management of complex multi-country initiatives. He has also worked as an environmental journalist for outlets including the BBC, Mongabay, Science, and The Guardian — writing on land rights, Indigenous knowledge, biodiversity governance, environmental defenders, and climate justice.
Five years living in Colombia, alongside work across Latin America and Africa, shaped a worldview rooted in Buen Vivir and the visible cultural celebration of biodiversity in everyday life. Returning to South Africa, he saw an opportunity to bring those lessons home — and to build a model that could travel beyond it.
Reweaver was born from that intention: to bridge finance and story, biodiversity and culture, investment and custodianship.
What Makes Us Different
Finance × Culture × Ecology × Story × Partnerships
Most organisations speak only one language. Reweaver works across them — combining financial fluency, conservation and grantmaking experience, climate and nature finance expertise, narrative craft, partnership-building, and an Africa-rooted, globally relevant perspective.
This lets us shape work that is both imaginative and practical, and it shapes how we see the work:
Culture is infrastructure — not an add-on to conservation; it shapes governance, meaning, and long-term care.
We build coherence, not isolated projects — each engagement is part of a wider portfolio of practice and partnerships.
We translate between worlds — funders, communities, conservation actors, tourism partners, the private sector, and investors.
We work across scales — from single proposals to regional initiatives to full landscapes.
We are global but multi-local — the model travels; every place stays rooted in its own custodians.
Capital should serve custodianship, not extract value from it
Our Values
Honour Place — every landscape and community holds unique ecological and cultural intelligence.
Build with Integrity — trust, consent, reciprocity, and accountability are foundational.
Think Long-Term — regeneration requires patience, stewardship, and intergenerational thinking.
Put Capital in Service of Life — resources should help communities and ecosystems thrive
Invitation to Collaborate
We welcome collaboration with funders, investors, cultural institutions, conservation actors, partnerships, tourism partners, researchers, government bodies, creative practitioners, and place-based organisations.
Whether you're designing a new initiative, supporting a living landscape, commissioning advisory work, or exploring a longer-term partnership — we'd love to hear from you.
