How Baltic Nature Capital was created
Baltic Nature Capital was founded by brothers Jurijs and Edgars Prokofjevs with a shared vision: to connect real landscapes with long-term capital and create scalable, high-integrity natural capital programmes.
The foundation of the platform comes from direct, on the ground experience in Latvia particularly within Natura 2000 landscapes, where restoration, agriculture, and biodiversity must be managed together in practice. Over time, this work highlighted a key gap, while ecological restoration is well understood, there is still a lack of structured pathways to connect land-based projects with long-term investment.
Baltic Nature Capital was established to address this challenge combining practical land stewardship with programme structuring, governance design, and partnership development to build investable natural capital platforms.
Jurijs Prokofjevs
Co-Founder
Jurijs Prokofjevs is a Latvia-based land steward, nature farmer, and co-founder of Baltic Nature Capital. And owner of Sita Nature Park. His experience is rooted in long-term practical work across protected landscapes, floodplain meadows, and Natura 2000 territories.
Through SIA Sita Nature Park, Jurijs works within the Sita and Pededze floodplain ecosystem, managing grasslands, wetlands, and grazing systems in a way that combines ecological restoration with agricultural use. His work reflects the realities of land management including seasonal conditions, biodiversity constraints, stakeholder coordination, and long-term stewardship.
He is actively involved in EU-funded environmental programmes, including LIFE initiatives focused on grassland restoration and circular biomass systems. This gives Baltic Nature Capital direct insight into how large-scale environmental programmes function in practice from habitat management to implementation challenges on the ground.
Edgars Prokofjevs
Co-Founder
Edgars Prokofjevs leads strategic coordination, partnerships, and programme development at Baltic Nature Capital. His role focuses on structuring natural capital opportunities into investable platforms, aligning land access, stakeholders, and capital with scalable implementation pathways.
He is responsible for partner relationships, institutional engagement, and commercial structuring ensuring that projects move beyond concept into execution. This includes coordinating with investors, technical partners, and public stakeholders, as well as supporting governance, contracting, and long-term programme alignment.
His work ensures that Baltic Nature Capital operates not only from ecological understanding, but also with the structure and clarity required for investment and delivery.
Bridging Land and Capital
Together, Jurijs and Edgars combine complementary expertise that is essential for building credible natural capital programmes.
Jurijs brings direct, on-the-ground experience in land management, restoration, and Natura 2000 ecosystems — ensuring that projects are rooted in ecological reality and practical implementation conditions.
Edgars brings programme structuring, partnerships, and strategic coordination — ensuring that these opportunities are translated into investable, scalable, and well-governed platforms.
This combination allows Baltic Nature Capital to operate across the full project lifecycle — from land identification and ecological design to stakeholder alignment, financing, and long-term programme delivery.
