Brazil's pioneering Water Producer scheme, piloted 2008–2015 in São Paulo's Cantareira system, signed 41 PES contracts covering 342 hectares of forest restoration …
Nazaré Paulista, Brazil
Good practice★ 47
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Since 2022, Nhaumue and Mangunde communities in Chibabava District have restored native Miombo woodland under Kukumuty, the first project certified under Plan …
Chibabava, Mozambique
Good practice★ 47
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
A 10-year, NZ$20 million partnership (2013-2023) between dairy co-operative Fonterra and New Zealand's Department of Conservation enhanced 5,213 ha across 5 priority …
Hamilton, New Zealand
Good practice★ 47
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
EU LIFE programme (2019–2025, LIFE18 NAT/PT/000927) removed feral cats and invasive plants from Ria Formosa's barrier islands; Audouin's Gull nests rose from …
Faro, Portugal
Good practice★ 47
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka's Galle District earn staged Plan Vivo Certificates for reforesting traditional home gardens with analog forestry, rebuilding a …
Hiniduma, Sri Lanka
Good practice★ 47
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Pau Costa Foundation pays Girona-province shepherds EUR140/ha in strategic zones and EUR70/ha elsewhere to graze livestock as wildfire fuel-break management; peer-reviewed 5-year …
Girona, Spain
Good practice★ 47
Evidence: Observational / pre–post
Since 2018, Iceland's Wetland Fund has rewetted ~300 ha of drained peatland and is piloting an IPCC-aligned carbon-credit methodology with automated water-level …
Reykjavik, Iceland
Good practice★ 47
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported
Since 1986 Minnesota has paid landowners a one-time fee for easements retiring marginal cropland, wetlands and prairie. State agency BWSR reports over …
St. Paul, United States of America
Good practice★ 47
Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported