Topic: Habitat restoration clear · back to the knowledge map
Most practices in: United States of America (8) · Australia (5) · United Kingdom (5)
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, …
Since 2003, Suntory holds 30–100-year forest management agreements at 27 Japanese sites totalling >12,000 ha, recharging more than twice the groundwater it …
Brazil's first municipal PES law (Lei 2.100/2005): Extrema, Minas Gerais pays 53+ landowners R$195/ha/yr to restore native forest and adopt conservation practices …
Ireland's largest peatland restoration: 33,000 ha across 82 midland bogs, €108M EU-funded. By end 2024: 18,861 ha done (57%). Net 3.3 Mt …
Largest statutory wetland offset market: 1,800+ mitigation banks in RIBITS (2013), restoring aquatic habitats across the US under CWA Section 404. Banking …
Panama Canal Authority pays landowners flat annual fees to restore forest in the 342,000-ha Canal watershed: 10,846 ha reforested (3,650 ha agroforestry, …
World's first peatland-rewetting carbon standard, launched 2011 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. MoorFutures certificates (EUR 30-123/tCO2e) fund bog rewetting across four German states; over 50,000 …
Finland's voluntary PES programme paying private landowners to conserve biodiversity-rich forests in Southern Finland. Over 96,000 ha permanently or durably protected; €46M …
Since February 2024, most development in England must deliver a measurable 10% biodiversity net gain in standardised biodiversity units — a statutory …
Since 1964, KKL-JNF's ~3,000-hectare pine plantation in Israel's northern Negev has become one of the world's longest-running semi-arid forest carbon-flux studies, but …
Abu Dhabi's environment agency has planted tens of millions of mangroves since 2015, expanding cover to roughly 17,600 ha; EAD reports the …
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 …
Since 2022, Nhaumue and Mangunde communities in Chibabava District have restored native Miombo woodland under Kukumuty, the first project certified under Plan …
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 …
Rwanda restored the degraded Rugezi Marsh - source of two hydropower-feeding lakes - after 48.5% of its 6,735ha peatland was destroyed by …
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 …
Since 2020, the Vanga Blue Forest community organisation has protected 460 ha of mangroves at Vanga Bay on the Kenya–Tanzania border under …
Smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka's Galle District earn staged Plan Vivo Certificates for reforesting traditional home gardens with analog forestry, rebuilding a …
Since 2014, the Czech State Environmental Fund has backed ~18,000 projects with CZK 13bn (~EUR 520m) to slow water loss from the …
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 …
Since 1986 Minnesota has paid landowners a one-time fee for easements retiring marginal cropland, wetlands and prairie. State agency BWSR reports over …
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