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Most practices in: United States of America (8) · Australia (5) · United Kingdom (5)
Denmark's June 2024 Green Tripartite Agreement commits a ~DKK 40bn (EUR 5.4bn) Green Land Fund to voluntarily rewet 140,000 ha of drained …
Under a September 2023 decree enabling voluntary ecological compensation, Finland recorded one of its first private biodiversity-credit deals in March 2026: retailer …
Rwanda's FONERWA (est. 2012), Africa's first GCF-accredited national climate fund, has mobilised ~US$200M across 40+ projects, protecting ~20,000 ha from erosion and …
From 1976, Durrell, Mauritius's National Parks Service and the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation eradicated invasive goats (1979) and rabbits (1986) from Round Island. …
Under Alberta's 2013 Wetland Policy, developers who cannot avoid draining a wetland can pay an in-lieu fee funding replacement elsewhere; since 2020 …
Snowchange Cooperative, an Indigenous- and community-led NGO, has rewetted boreal peatlands across Finland — the 110-ha Linnunsuo mire and 874 ha of …
South Africa's national public works programme paying community workers to rehabilitate degraded wetlands through invasive alien plant removal, bio-engineering and re-vegetation; 1,300+ …
Thailand's national coastal mangrove carbon scheme (T-VER, March 2023): 98 communities enrolled protecting 34,456 ha under 30-year agreements paying US$78/ha year 1 …
Plan Vivo-certified (PV_2011_006) community reforestation in Bolivia's Cochabamba Tropics. Smallholder farmers plant native mahogany, cedar, and 12 other species on deforested land; …
Germany's Federal Nature Conservation Act (BNatSchG) has required biodiversity offsetting since 1976. Eco-Accounts allow landowners to pre-register habitat improvements as tradable credits …
Netherlands peatland carbon standard: farmers raise groundwater in drained peat meadows earning SNK-verified credits at €75–115/tCO₂e. Peat subsidence is ~2.8% of Dutch …
New Zealand’s NZD 1.185 billion pandemic-recovery conservation programme (2020–2025): 225 DOC-led projects employed 11,000+ workers for invasive species control and habitat restoration. …
Europe's first supply-side biodiversity compensation site: CDC Biodiversité restored 357 ha of orchards to rare Crau steppic grassland (€12.5M; 2008–10). Great bustard …
Largest biodiversity credit market in Australia: 381 stewardship agreements covering 109,911 ha under NSW Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016. A$467M Stewardship Payments Fund …
Cuba's 1959 Forestry Law and Plan Turquino-Manati raised forest cover from ~14% (1959) to 31.2% (2020, World Bank), though the 2020-2024 economic …
Heineken Ethiopia's BURQA initiative, with World Vision Ethiopia and Acacia Water, restores the Dabena and Hakim Gara catchments; an independent 2024 baseline …
Since 2003, Iraq's Ministry of Water Resources and NGO Nature Iraq have re-flooded the Mesopotamian Marshlands, reaching 75% of historic extent at …
An AUD 15.5m operation cleared ship rats and house mice from Lord Howe Island's 1,455 ha in 2019; official surveys confirmed the …
Under the Nature Repair Act 2023, Australia's Clean Energy Regulator runs the world's first legislated national voluntary biodiversity market. Its first project …
Norway's Environment Agency has rewetted more than 200 drained peatlands since 2015, sealing 550,000 metres of drainage ditches; state grant funding for …
EU LIFE project (2015–2022, €1.79M) eradicated black rats from inhabited Ventotene — among the largest inhabited islands ever freed of rats — …
Under a Forestry Commission MoU, Newmont's Akyem gold mine is revegetating three times the 101 ha of forest it impacted — 317 …
Austria's EUR 44.23M EU LIFE-funded AMooRe project (2024-2033) unites all 9 federal states and two ministries to restore ~1,400 ha of degraded …
Since 2008, Danone-owned Żywiec Zdrój's 'Po stronie natury' programme has planted over 8 million trees across roughly 1,000 hectares and restored around …
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