Our Portfolio

We are also exploring mechanisms to help sustain these important agreements, particularly the creation of endowments to guarantee long-term benefit provision, management and monitoring. Other mechanisms include payments for ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and watershed maintenance, and partnerships with private partners to sponsor annual agreement costs.

SCOPING FEASIBILITY

Guatemala
Forests in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve and the Volcanic Range with indigenous communities
Fact Sheet (PDF - 313 KB)

India
Building a conservation corridor with local communities in the Western Ghats Hotspot

Papua New Guinea
Ridge to reef approach in Milne Bay

Philippines
Forests in the country’s largest remaining forested mountain range, the Sierra Madre

IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENTS

China
16 agreements in Sichuan, Tibetan Autonomous Region and Qinghai provinces protecting 500,000 hectares of forest and grasslands
Implementation cost: $300,000/y
Fact Sheet (PDF - 351 KB)

Colombia
Four agreements with indigenous families in the Amazon to protect spawning areas for economically important fish
Implementation costs: $90,000/y
Fact Sheet (PDF - 324 KB)

Madagascar
10 agreements protecting 2,500 hectares of threatened forest and endemic species around protected areas
Implementation cost: $100,000/y
Fact Sheet, CAZ (PDF - 371 KB)

Palau
16,300 hectares of marine area protecting one of the world’s richest reefs with local owners,
Implementation costs: $100,000/y

South Africa
Three agreements with communal and commercial farmers to protect 20,000 hectares of the Succulent Karoo
Implementation cost: $130,000/y
Fact Sheet, Namaqualand (PDF - 410 KB)

Venezuela
80,000 hectares protected by 64 families in the Caura Basin
Implementation costs: $80,000/y
Fact Sheet (PDF - 327 KB)

TOWARD SUSTAINABILITY

Cambodia
5 agreements protecting 150,000 hectares around the Central Cardamom Mountains — the largest intact patch of mountainous forest left in Southeast Asia
Endowment target: $2 million
Fact Sheet (PDF - 336 KB)

Ecuador
Agreements with local fishermen in the northern coast
Implementation costs: $25,000/y

Supporting the government’s design and implementation of SocioBosque to protect 1.5 million hectares of forest and benefit 1 million of the poorest people

Fiji
Agreement with the government and land owners protecting 20,000 hectares in the Sovi Basin, the country’s largest remaining forest area
Endowment target: $4.5 million

Guyana
Agreement with the Government of Guyana protecting 80,000 hectares of pristine rainforest since 2002
Endowment target: $2 million

Kenya
Agreements covering 120,000 hectares protecting wild carnivores managed by 6,000 people
Endowment target: $3 million

Peru
7 agreements in the Cordillera Blanca protecting 12,000 hectares of unique highland forests with 700 families
Endowment target: $4 million
Fact Sheet, Alto Mayo (PDF - 413 KB)
Fact Sheet, Conchucos (PDF - 347 KB)

Solomon Islands
3,000 families protecting 12,000 hectares on largest unlogged island in the Pacific
Endowment target: $1.5 million