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-26 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: United States of America (13) · Australia (8) · United Kingdom (7)
Since 1999, TIST has organised smallholder farmers into self-governing 'small groups' across Kenya, Uganda (incl. Soroti), Tanzania and India. Verra's verified count: …
On 6 December 2022 Tierra del Fuego's legislature unanimously created a 10,341 km2 protected area over Península Mitre, safeguarding ~2,400 km2 of …
Since 2021, PAMS Foundation and Trees for All have signed 30-year leases with 100+ farmers in Tanzania's Nguru Mountains, replanting 270,000+ native …
Since 2019, Rewilding Ukraine has restored wetlands and steppe in the Danube Delta with Endangered Landscapes Programme funding; despite Russia's 2022 invasion, …
Since 2018 the Greater Cape Town Water Fund has cleared 46,000+ hectares of invasive alien vegetation, recovering 15.2 billion litres of water …
Moldova's forestry programme restored 20,300+ ha of degraded land and issued 851,911 carbon credits since 2003; a new 2023-2032 plan backed by …
Since 1941, Dutch regional water boards have run a nationwide muskrat/coypu control programme to stop dike-burrowing damage; in 2025 they trapped 84,438 …
Jordan revived the ancient Hima communal rangeland system at Bani Hashem in the Zarqa River Basin, using rotational grazing exclusion to nearly …
Tunisia's national oasis strategy channelled a $6.34M GEF/World Bank-financed project through farmer associations (GDA) to reward sustainable land management across the country's …
A 1987 referendum (58% approval) enshrined moor protection in the Swiss constitution; ~550 raised bogs and 1,200+ fens are now safeguarded nationally. …
Colombia's first Habitat Bank to issue tradeable Voluntary Biodiversity Credits protects 340 ha of Andean cloud forest in Támesis, Antioquia; each credit …
Goat and rat eradication (2016–2018) on the barren islet of Redonda triggered a peer-reviewed sixfold+ rebound in an endemic ground lizard and …
Lithuania pays farmers under Measure 10 of its CAP Plan to manage biodiversity grasslands, protect wetlands and cut farm emissions; 2015-2022 the …
Coca-Cola Foundation and WWF-CEE co-financed the reconnection of 14.5 river km of Drava side-arms in Croatia's Mura-Drava-Danube Biosphere Reserve (2015-2024), part of …
Since 2010, South West Water has paid 2,000+ Devon and Cornwall farmers to cut diffuse pollution across 144,120 ha, investing over £20m …
Since 2013, Mikoko Pamoja has conserved 117 ha of mangrove in Gazi Bay, Kenya, the world's first community mangrove-carbon project. Plan Vivo-certified …
Since 2008, Selangor's Forestry Department and NGO Global Environment Centre have rewetted and replanted Raja Musa Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia's second-largest peat …
IKI-funded governance programme (2022-2027) for the Cuvette Centrale, the world's largest tropical peatland (145,500 km2, ~30.6 Gt carbon, Nature 2017), building cross-sectoral …
Since the late 1990s, Mexican NGO GECI has removed 60 populations of 13 invasive mammal species from 39 Pacific islands, restoring 85% …
GEF-funded campaign by Galápagos National Park and the Charles Darwin Foundation removed 140,000+ feral goats from 500,000+ ha across Pinta, Santiago and …
National voluntary programme where private and communal landowners receive rates exemptions and technical support in exchange for conservation commitments; has secured >1.5 …
Voluntary, state-funded Finnish programme (2020–2030) protecting and restoring mires, wetlands, traditional biotopes and shores; 27,770 ha of mires protected and 20,877 ha …
GEF/IDB project protecting Blue Mountains forests that supply 42% of Kingston's water. Over 500 ha reforested, 5,000+ farmers trained, 8% sedimentation reduction …
Parliament-mandated fund (2020) pays landowners to convert drained farmland to forests/wetlands, financed by certified CO₂ credits. By 2022: 24 forests, 230 ha, …
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