Turkey's forestry ministry, with World Bank/GEF financing, has supported watershed communities since 2004 with saplings, irrigation tech and solar heaters; the first …
Bulgaria's CAP Strategic Plan pays farmers €1.03bn in eco-schemes and €558M for climate/environment rural-development measures (2023-2027), but monitoring finds Natura 2000 grassland …
Sofia, Bulgaria
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 80%33/100
One of Plan Vivo's founding projects paid ~1,000 Mozambican smallholders near Gorongosa National Park $242.60/ha over 7 years for agroforestry carbon, but …
Gorongosa, Mozambique
Good practice
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Top 80%33/100
Since 2001, Falklands Conservation and partners have cleared invasive Norway rats from 65 islands (~6,500 ha) for under £250,000; a peer-reviewed study …
With UNEP-GEF and EU-China funding, Ruoergai's wetland reserve administration dammed drainage canals to rewet part of the Tibetan Plateau's largest alpine peatland, …
Colombia's Resolution 1517/2012 created a mandatory, ratio-based (up to 9:1) biodiversity offset system for mining and infrastructure licensing. Case studies quantify offset …
Bogotá, Colombia
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 80%33/100
Flemish agri-environment PES: 2,529 farmers received €11.1M in 2025 for managing 5,948 ha of agricultural land for biodiversity — botanical grasslands, flower …
Ghent, Belgium
Good practice
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Top 80%33/100
Hungary pays ~€115/ha/yr (Decree 269/2007, updated under CAP 2023–27) for Natura 2000 grassland maintenance. 250,000 ha enrolled; 7,500+ farmers paid; €19M disbursed …
Mongolia's government, with World Bank support, built an Index-Based Livestock Insurance Programme that pays herders once satellite-tracked livestock mortality in their district …
Since 2008, Bangladesh's Sundarbans mangrove forest has run a four-tier co-management system with 828 recruited patrol members, under the Forest Department, USAID's …
Angkor's temple-entrance ticket revenue, which reached about $37 million in 2023, funds APSARA's parallel work restoring the park's ancient baray reservoirs and …
Phosphate mining left roughly 80% of Nauru's 21 km² landmass a jagged limestone moonscape; the state-run Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation aims to restore …