Cosman Bolus

GCBR Advisor

Cosman is a restoration, carbon and social ecologist with extensive experience in regenerative land projects, with a focus on sustainable land management and ecological carbon sequestration. He has vast experience in biodiversity assessment, carbon monitoring, as well as carbon and feasibility projections for ecological restoration and regenerative agriculture. He has grounding expertise in project management, facilitation and cross-cultural communication through work he has done on communal lands with rural farming communities in the Eastern Cape.

Cosman is interested in transdisciplinary approaches, innovative restoration and regenerative practices which bring together affected stakeholders such as local communities, farmers, NGO’s, private companies, government and centres of learning faced by the challenges of global climate change and land use impacts on agro-ecological systems. He is also interested in doing this work in rural areas in ways that foreground issues of socio-economic development and learning for sustainability.

He is currently the founding director of Sustainable Landscape Solutions (SLS), and is an associate of Apex and the Rhodes Restoration Research Group (RRRG). Cosman has a BSc (Hons) in Botany from the University of Cape Town, and a MSc in Environmental Science (on Natural Resource Management on South Africa’s communal lands) from Rhodes University.