Topic: Habitat restoration clear · back to the knowledge map
Most practices in: United States of America (8) · Australia (5) · United Kingdom (5)
World's largest PES programme: China's Grain for Green converted 34.3M ha of sloped farmland to forest and grassland since 1999, paying 535 …
Community-led mangrove restoration in Casamance and Sine-Saloum: 10,000 ha, 80 million trees planted by 2012, Verra-certified; 600,000 tCO2e over 20 years; 350 …
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 …
The Nature Conservancy has rewetted 37,000+ acres of pocosin peatland at Pocosin Lakes NWR, NC, and with TerraCarbon built the first ACR-approved …
Indonesia's national Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG, later BRGM) rewetted 1.6 million hectares of degraded peatland across seven provinces between 2016 and 2024 …
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 …
Andean water fund restoring 86 km of pre-Inca amunas to recharge Lima's rivers; 15m m³/year water secured, 605,000 t CO2 absorbed, 5,000 …
The world's largest PES: since 1999 China has paid 30M+ rural households to convert ~29.8M hectares of sloping cropland to forest to …
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, …
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 …
Jordan revived the ancient Hima communal rangeland system at Bani Hashem in the Zarqa River Basin, using rotational grazing exclusion to nearly …
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 …
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 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 …
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