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Most practices in: United States of America (13) · Brazil (8) · Australia (7)
A 2008–2012 CARE/WWF pilot paid upstream farmers in Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains — source of 90% of Dar es Salaam's water — to …
Since 2018, Zambian Breweries (AB InBev) and WWF Zambia have run a phased water partnership in the Kafue basin, now in a …
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) …
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' …
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 …
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% …
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 …
A timber levy funding forests' "general beneficial functions" is uniform in Republika Srpska (10% of roadside timber value) but fragmented across FBiH …
A UK Darwin Initiative-funded pilot (GBP 525,573, 2023-2026) led by IIED with Conserve Global and Tondwa Conservation is designing Zambia's first community …
Rio Tinto's QMM ilmenite mine near Tolagnaro offsets 1,665 ha of forest loss with ~6,000 ha of protected forest, about 3.5x the …
Rio Tinto's Simandou iron-ore project has surveyed chimpanzee populations in Guinea's Pic de Fon forest since 2007 to build an IFC PS6 …
Announced in March 2026, the Coca-Cola system is investing USD 1.94 million with IUCN and Tanzania's Wami-Ruvu Basin Water Board to restore …
Under a 1986 treaty, South Africa pays Lesotho roughly R4bn (US$240m) a year — about 15% of Lesotho's budget — for c.800 …
Nigeria's pilot REDD+ state paired a 2008 logging moratorium with UN-REDD readiness work (FREL submitted 2017). After ~14 years and ~US$4M in …
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