California Conservation and Mitigation Banking Program (USA)
Since California's first conservation bank in 1995, CDFW has approved 97 banks covering about 73,948 acres (2024), generating 1,406.9 new credits in …
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Since California's first conservation bank in 1995, CDFW has approved 97 banks covering about 73,948 acres (2024), generating 1,406.9 new credits in …
A three-phase cat eradication (2002–2006) let seabirds recolonize Ascension Island's mainland after roughly 180 years of absence: Ascension frigatebirds grew from 2 …
Manila's Maynilad utility has reforested about 2,420 ha of the Ipo-Angat watershed since 2007 (1.64M+ trees), with government forestry regulator DENR independently …
A $9.1M Green Climate Fund project — the GCF's first ever — helped 120+ Indigenous communities in Peru's Datem del Marañón manage …
A $200,000 Coca-Cola Foundation grant funded a 6.6-mile fence protecting 1,400 acres of native Koʻolau forest on Oʻahu from invasive species, safeguarding …
Argentina and Chile have run a binational GEF/FAO-funded programme since 2008 to control 65,000-150,000 invasive North American beavers damaging up to 40,000 …
A 2012 PNAS study found Alberta oil-sands mining will destroy 29,555 ha of peatland, releasing up to 47.3 million tonnes of carbon. …
Iceland's 'Bændur græða landið' scheme pays farmers fertiliser, seed and cash to revegetate eroded land, run by the state Soil Conservation Service …
A rare independent, peer-reviewed evaluation found Ambatovy's nickel mine near Moramanga is on track to offset the 2,064 ha of rainforest it …
Japan's Ministry of the Environment declared the small Indian mongoose eradicated from Amami Oshima in 2024 after a 25-year, ¥3.57bn campaign; a …
Three helicopter-baiting phases (2011-2015) cleared invasive rats and mice from 108,723 ha of sub-Antarctic South Georgia, the world's largest rodent eradication. Declared …
Sweden's government-funded wetland rewetting budget line restored 2,100 ha of drained land in 2023 alone (1,500 ha peatland, 588 projects), cutting an …
India's mandatory developer-pays compensatory afforestation scheme (CAF Act 2016); planted 178,261 ha (85% of target) against Rs 38,516 crore (~US$4.6 bn) of …
Lombardy Region (IT) granted €3.5M; 100+ corporate co-funders added €1.5M. Twelve projects: 66,000+ trees, 300+ ha forest improved, 4,635 ha FSC-certified, 1,463 …
Civil-society-led water fund (27 partners) paying landowners in the Yaque del Norte basin to conserve and restore watershed forests; backed by Ley …
Swedish Forest Agency pays private owners for 50-year agreements (Naturvårdsavtal) protecting old-growth forest. End 2025: 35,500 ha NCA, 76,600 ha NCA+BPA; SEK …
A 2014 rat eradication on Ile Vache Marine and two Salomon Atoll islets, confirmed rat-free in 2017, let seabirds recover — and …
Algeria's Barrage Vert (1971-) afforestation belt reports conflicting outcomes: FAO cites ~75% survival, an independent study found ~42%, and a Djelfa remote-sensing …
Serbia's Law on Forests levies a minimum 15% charge on the market value of harvested timber, split 70/30 between the national and …
A UK Defra-funded, SAERI-led three-year project (2023-2026) is measuring GHG fluxes at 20+ peatland sites across the Falkland Islands using flux towers …
ACBK and partners (Fauna & Flora, Frankfurt Zoological Society, RSPB) worked with Kazakhstan's government to expand state reserves and curb poaching, helping …
A 2011 aerial rat eradication on Palmyra Atoll (Island Conservation/TNC/USFWS) preceded a peer-reviewed study showing native tree seedlings rose from under 150 …
Auckland's water utility Watercare is regenerating 2,000+ hectares of native forest in the Hūnua and Waitākere Ranges — source of ~84% of …
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's provincial government paid community watchers and nursery growers to regenerate 350,000 ha of forest, exceeding its Bonn Challenge pledge — …
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