Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
Since February 2024, most development in England must deliver a measurable 10% biodiversity net gain in standardised biodiversity units — a statutory …
A 3,700 ha landscape-scale fen restoration linking Woodwalton Fen and Holme Fen; about 1,700 ha is in conservation management. Wildlife returns are …
Eau de Paris, with 80% Seine-Normandie water-agency funding, contracts farmers on its catchments to cut pesticides; reported 2023 pesticide use down 77% …
City of Trees, Greater Manchester's tree charity, runs a 3-million-tree target and ran the UK's largest i-Tree Eco survey (11.3M trees, 15.7% …
Bavaria coexists with about 23,000 beavers via ~1,000 volunteer consultants and two schemes (damage compensation, prevention funding), a 5 m farming ban …
Since 2014 a 100+ signatory network, with TNC as fiscal agent, has treated 251,000 acres of Rio Grande headwater forest toward a …
Four Klamath dams were removed by 2024; Chinook now pass former dam sites and spawn in Upper Basin tributaries, with 360+ river …
APRIL's Fire Free Village Programme pays Riau villages IDR 50–100 million for staying fire-free; a peer-reviewed 2019 study found programme villages had …
Since 1972, Trust for Nature has placed permanently binding conservation covenants on private land titles across Victoria, Australia, protecting over 82,000 hectares …
Chisinau is reprofiling 7.6 km of the River Bic and installing ~90 rain gardens and 85 tree pits to cut flood risk …
Costa Rica's first marine PES scheme pays Gulf of Nicoya mollusk-harvester associations for verified mangrove conservation, scaling from 157 harvesters in 6 …
From 1991, Syria revived the 'hema' grazing-reserve system at Talila, near Palmyra, growing a reintroduced oryx herd from 116 to 153 by …
UNESCO named the 88-island Bijagos a Biosphere Reserve in 1996 and, in July 2025, a World Heritage Site. On the 43-hectare sacred …
In 1980 Montgomery County, Maryland downzoned 93,000 acres to create its Agricultural Reserve, letting farmers sell Transferable Development Rights to builders elsewhere; …
Bangladesh's Cyclone Preparedness Programme trains 76,000+ Red Crescent volunteers across 13 coastal districts and evacuated 2.1 million people ahead of Cyclone Bulbul; …
GEF/UNEP's IWEco project rehabilitated landslide-prone farmland in Saint Lucia's upper Soufrière watershed: 75 farms (22 ha) assessed, 4,000+ trees planted from a …
Since 2015 Dutch NGO IVN has planted 200+ tennis-court-sized 'Tiny Forests' nationwide. Wageningen University's citizen-science monitoring recorded 595-636 species across the network …
The EU LIFE-funded 'LIFE to alvars' project (2014-2019) restored 2,501.5 hectares of Estonia's globally rare alvar limestone grasslands, engaging about 600 landowners …
In Mashike, Hokkaido, Nippon Steel and the local fisheries cooperative turned steelmaking slag into a growth substrate for seaweed beds, generating Japan's …
Since 2017 WA's Water Corporation has purified Beenyup wastewater via ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis and UV, injecting it into the Leederville and Yarragadee …
EU-funded 'Turning the Tide' installed three 500m3 sediment traps and 13 artificial reef structures to rehabilitate Aruba's Ramsar-listed Spaans Lagoen mangroves; outplanted …
The National Trust for the Cayman Islands is buying parcels of the 8,655-acre Central Mangrove Wetland -- the Caribbean's largest contiguous mangrove …
Bonaire's 2,700ha marine park has run on diver-paid fees since 1992, after subsidies collapsed — one of the Caribbean's first self-financing MPAs, …
Blanket-bog restoration at Dryhope in the Scottish Borders became the UK's first project verified under the Peatland Code, blending public Peatland ACTION …
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