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-202 practices not yet assessed for evidence strength.
Most practices in: United States of America (27) · Australia (17) · United Kingdom (14)
A brodifacoum rat-eradication operation on Suwarrow atoll's Motu Tou in 2013, run by the Cook Islands National Environment Service with BirdLife International …
Since 2010, Chile's Law 20.412 has paid smallholder and family farmers via INDAP/SAG competitive rounds to restore degraded agricultural soils; 2025 Biobío-region …
Since FY2015-16, India's Finance Commission redirects 7.5-10% of central tax revenue to states by forest cover, moving ~$6.9-$12bn/year (2015-19) and ~$11.1bn in …
ArcelorMittal Liberia funds co-management of the 11,533 ha East Nimba Nature Reserve, home to chimpanzees, the Nimba toad and otter shrew, as …
Rio Tinto's Oyu Tolgoi mine runs an 80,000 km² landscape biodiversity offset (~880x its footprint); WCS-verified khulan (~36,000) and goitered gazelle (~28,500) …
Parks Canada and the Haida Nation ran a five-year, C$2.5M rat-eradication programme (2009-2013) on Gwaii Haanas islands, aiding seabird recovery — though …
Botswana's national CBNRM policy (2007, piloted since the 1990s) channels tourism and hunting revenue to ~100 community trusts covering ~22% of national …
Since the 1980s Bangladesh's Forest Department has leased degraded state land to landless growers who plant trees, sharing timber-auction proceeds 40-65% with …
Since 2014 New Zealand's national biodiversity-offsetting guidance has let developers offset unavoidable habitat loss through resource consents aiming for 'no net loss' …
Norway's Environment Agency funds fish traps on 53 of 63 affected rivers — including a 400m trap at Seida on the Tana …
From the late 1970s, the Haryana village of Sukhomajri built check dams and a community water-rights institution (HRMS) that cut siltation into …
The World Bank's $150M 'Rhino Bond' (2022-2027) funds anti-poaching at two South African reserves via roughly $10M in conservation payments, with investor …
KEFRI and CIFOR-ICRAF trained Baringo County communities to convert invasive Prosopis juliflora into charcoal and fodder using improved kilns (~30% conversion efficiency); …
USTDA funds Vanuatu's Meteorology Dept to pilot Tomorrow.io's AI/ML weather platform for cyclone forecasting, announced September 2024 under Weather Ready Pacific; as …
The Saudi Green Initiative (2021-) reports 151 million trees planted and 500,000 ha rehabilitated by mid-2025 -- about 1.5% of its 10-billion-tree …
Since 2010, Armenian NGO FPWC has leased land near Khosrov Forest State Reserve to build the 30,300 ha Caucasus Wildlife Refuge for …
A World Bank-backed project (2008-2020) set out to reforest up to 1,500 ha of Trinidad's Ramsar-listed Nariva Swamp for carbon and livelihoods, …
Cyprus's 2014-2020 Rural Development Programme put 36,742 hectares under agri-environment-climate contracts and paid farmers across its 63-site, 1,789km2 Natura 2000 network, backed …
California's CARB cap-and-trade offset market has credited ~74 improved-forest-management projects with 130M+ carbon credits since 2013 — but peer-reviewed research found ~29% …
Since Chile's CONAF eradicated rabbits from Santa Clara islet in 2002-03, shearwater pairs there rose ~40% in three years — yet the …
Sri Lanka's first PES pilot (2019-22): hydropower firm Vidullanka (60%) and IUCN Sri Lanka (40%) spent ~LKR 6.1M restoring riparian buffers and …
Created by Brazil's 2012 Forest Code but only operationalised in October 2025, the CRA lets landowners with surplus native vegetation sell tradable …
Victoria's BushBroker native-vegetation offset scheme (386 sites, 19,000+ ha, since 2006) was independently audited and peer-reviewed in 2024: both found little evidence …
WSAS's independent 2023 audit certified Nestlé Nigeria's Abaji factory 'Core' under the Alliance for Water Stewardship standard, but also documented three major …
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