The Community-Based Landscape Regeneration Toolkit provides research, recommendations, and resources to shape nature restoration to become more socially-embedded, democratic and equitable. The toolkit focuses on the Cairngorms area of Scotland, drawing on interviews, workshops, site visits, and scans of relevant environmental toolkits and policies. Scotland now has ambitious restoration policies in place, yet democratic local governance lags behind efforts to improve biodiversity and climate change. High concentrations of land ownership also impede community control of land-based decision-making. Through a series of stories and recommendations, this toolkit shows how community-based landscape regeneration can contribute to place-based transformations that address rural depopulation, support livelihoods and invest in local infrastructures. These measures involve improving and democratising land access; aligning social, ecological and economic benefits; expanding community capacities and skills; enhancing community engagement in decision-making; and integrating democratic renewal with ecological renewal. While the toolkit focuses on the Cairngorms area in Scotland, it can provide insights into how to realise