For centuries, development has come at the expense of nature. What if nature and people could thrive in the same place, forever? What if communities could become resilient to climate change and protect their livelihoods and food security without destroying nature’s life-support systems? We aim to create self-sustaining, scalable conservation models that can be adapted from one country to another by focusing on large ecological systems. This integrated Sustainable Ecosystem Restoration approach is offering lessons for how humanity can restore ecosystems while weatheringand even abatingclimate breakdown and biodiversity loss.We support nature-based development approaches in the world’s most important places by:
- Working with partners to demonstrate that when ecosystem is restored, human well-being improves.
- Developing innovative ways to combine government, corporate, donor and investor funding to help places transition to nature-based development.
- Creating and demonstrating viable models that link public demand, sustainable consumption, protection of essential resources and local benefits.