Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
Ni-Vanuatu villages close reef areas under customary 'tabu' law, the country's most widespread community fisheries tool. Peer-reviewed studies at Takara and Emau …
Ethiopian Orthodox churches guard the last fragments of northern Ethiopia's native forest, which has shrunk from 45% to under 5% cover. TREE …
Since 1985, cheap bags of nitrogen, phosphorus and iron buried at each seedling's base have let mangroves take root on Eritrea's barren …
Harare residents organising since 2001 turned a threatened suburban wetland into Zimbabwe's first urban Ramsar site (2013) and won a 2021 Supreme …
The EU LIFE Pyrenees4Clima programme (~€19.8M, 2023-2031, 46 partners) runs Andorra as a pilot site for altitudinal climate monitoring and water-resource modelling, …
Nine underpasses beneath NH-44 through Pench Tiger Reserve, including two 750 m structures, recorded 468 camera-trap images across 15 species in a …
Camera-trap and track surveys of 15 crossing structures on Poland's A4 motorway through the Lower Silesian Forest (2010-2013) found wild species made …
A 100 m-wide green bridge over the Zagreb–Rijeka highway (Gorski Kotar) recorded 12,519 wildlife crossings across 793 monitored days (15.8/day) by bears, …
Twenty sand dams built by Zimbabwe's Dabane Trust in the semi-arid Shashe catchment gave 19 villages water for 4.4 more months a …
DR Congo channelled $126m through seven integrated PIREDD forest projects, then in 2024 adopted a standardised regional PES framework and introduced independent, …
Vientiane's That Luang Marsh, part of a ~2,000ha wetland system draining the capital, removes an est. 117±13 t of nitrogen and 3.9±0.8 …
Since 2001, a private consortium (majority Veolia/Vivendi) has run a 47.5 ML/day plant reclaiming Durban's wastewater to near-potable industrial standard under a …
Korea's Forest Service and Mongolia's environment ministry built a 40-hectare urban forest in Ulaanbaatar's Sukhbaatar district (2017-2022), planting 55,000 trees and shrubs …
Amman's municipality and Germany's GIZ adapted the dense Miyawaki afforestation method — first tried in the Middle East here — to plant …
Papua New Guinea combines satellite imagery, radar and FAO's Open Foris GIS tools in a national forest monitoring system spanning about 1,000 …
A NOAA-, state- and fishery-funded programme removed nearly 50,000 lbs of purple sea urchins from Sonoma-Mendocino reefs, cutting densities below the 2-per-square-metre …
In May 2023 Ecuador closed the world's largest debt-for-nature swap, repurchasing $1.6bn of bonds to redirect roughly $450m over 18 years into …
In June 2024, 17 First Nations closed a $335M Project Finance for Permanence deal with Canada, British Columbia and philanthropies, funding 2.8M …
Since 2009, Lagos State's LASPARK agency has coordinated planting of over 7 million trees via legally mandated 5-for-1 replacement for illegal felling …
Malawi's Phase-I Shire River Basin Management Program (2012–2019) paid roughly 185 communities $1,500 each through a Community Environmental Conservation Fund to rehabilitate …
Since 2004, UNAM's Chinampa Refugio Project has worked with Xochimilco farmers to rehabilitate canal-farming plots recharged partly by treated wastewater, building axolotl …
Free, open-access GLAD satellite alerts (8-day tree-cover-loss detection) let Cameroonian officials and civil society flag illegal logging in near-real time; a peer-reviewed …
Since 2022, Bogotá requires developers who fell an urban tree to plant five in return, or pay a monetary equivalent, under a …
Mexico City pays communities in its 87,000+ hectare Suelo de Conservación to protect forests and aquifer recharge. Since 2019, Altépetl Bienestar has …
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