Catalogue: PES & Nature-Based Solutions clear
Jordan's largest wastewater plant treats ~70% of the country's sewage and discharges 133 million m³/year of high-quality effluent into the Zarqa River, …
Kazakhstan's World Bank-financed Kok-Aral Dam raised the Northern Aral Sea's water volume 42% to ~27 billion m3 by 2025, revived a fishery …
A World Bank/GEF-backed coastal wetland park in Georgia protects Ramsar-listed wetlands hosting 194 bird species, was inscribed as a 2021 UNESCO World …
Conservation International and Colombian partners' Vida Manglar project protects and restores mangroves across Cispatá Bay, scaling from 7,500 to 11,000 hectares; the …
A six-year, €10m EIP-AGRI results-based scheme paid roughly 450 farmers across Ireland's 'Top 8' freshwater pearl mussel catchments for measured habitat and …
Indonesia's first Plan Vivo-certified project pays 234 households in a West Kalimantan village to protect peat-swamp and riparian forest under a 25-year …
Rwanda's government restored a degraded 121.7-hectare urban wetland in Kigali into an eco-park (2016–2022, Rwf 4.5bn); an independent 2026 survey found bird …
Since 2003, Eskom has partnered with BirdLife South Africa and the Middelpunt Wetland Trust to protect the wetlands feeding its Ingula Pumped-Storage …
WETLIFE 2 (LIFE13 NAT/LT/000084, 2014–2018, €1.56M) rewetted Lithuania's Amalva and Kamanos raised bogs — blocking ~37 km of drainage ditches at Kamanos …
Angola's Iona National Park has been financed through a €6.2m EU/UNDP project (2013-18) and a $41.3m GEF-7 programme (2021-28) targeting 3.8m hectares …
NSW has removed over 9,000 feral horses from Kosciuszko National Park toward a legal target of 3,000 by 2027; a 2023 RMIT …
A 2006-2011 project reconnected 2.4km of the Kushiro River's original meander in Japan's largest peatland; a 2025 peer-reviewed study found hydrology recovered …
COMACO pays Zambian smallholders above-market prices for conservation-farmed produce in exchange for surrendering snares and firearms; a 2011 PNAS study found significant …
Seattle's ~100,000-acre Cedar River Municipal Watershed programme won EPA's rare 'Limited Alternative to Filtration' status in 2004, saving over $100 million in …
The Nature Conservancy has rewetted 37,000+ acres of pocosin peatland at Pocosin Lakes NWR, NC, and with TerraCarbon built the first ACR-approved …
Melbourne has kept the public and farming out of its mountain-ash forest catchments since 1879, so over 65% of its drinking water …
Indonesia's national Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG, later BRGM) rewetted 1.6 million hectares of degraded peatland across seven provinces between 2016 and 2024 …
Australia's Indigenous Rangers Program funds 40+ ranger groups across northern Australia to control feral pigs, cats and invasive weeds like gamba grass; …
Brazil's first ecological fiscal transfer (1991) redistributes ~R$500 million/year of state VAT revenue to municipalities hosting protected areas or water springs, spurring …
VCS/CCB-certified REDD+ project covering 660,000 ha in Petén's Maya Biosphere Reserve; 12 community concessions managed by ACOFOP and CONAP project 38 million …
VCS-certified mangrove restoration in the Ayeyarwady Delta: 2,065 ha restored since 2015, targeting 3.6 MtCO2e over 20 years (~184,000 tCO2e/yr). WIF with …
Ten island watershed partnerships co-manage 2.6M acres of Hawaiian native forest through fencing and invasive/ungulate removal. ~US$2.5M annual state funding; US$12M leveraged …
Peru's Law 30215 (2014) mandates water utilities to fund watershed PES via tariffs. SUNASS authorised 43/50 utilities; US$50M+ invested; 8,900+ ha protected; …
Plan Vivo-certified indigenous community project protecting 806 ha of primary rainforest in Choiseul Province; three Babatana tribal clans have verified 108,895 tCO2 …
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