Through local leadership and high-tech verification methods, communities are restoring mangrove forests in areas devastated by overharvesting and industrialization.

Community-based mangrove restoration is replenishing protected areas degraded by overexploitation and outdated management practices.

In the largest regeneration effort in the country’s history, local communities are restoring vast swaths of mangrove forests devastated by Hurricane Dorian, aiming to protect the coastline and sustain vital fisheries.

Local people are revitalizing 80,000 hectares of mangrove forest to safeguard valuable marine coastal ecosystems.

In honor of Giving Tuesday 2022, our Million Mangrove Challenge will fund coastal communities in Kenya to plant 1,000,000 trees in Mida Creek.

Local communities are rallying to plant one million trees to restore native forests and tackle climate change.

Expanding reef restoration efforts into new geographies, local fishers are learning from international techniques to develop bespoke coral growth strategies.

Building out their first international restoration site, conservationists are restoring and cultivating coral populations using tried and true strategies.

As part of a Caribbean-wide Reef Rescue Network, marine scientists are bringing together educational organizations, volunteers, ecotourists, businesses, and dive shops to restore and reinforce coral populations using state-of-the-art strategies.

Marine biologists, students, local community members, and tourists are planting 30,000 corals to fortify reefs and restore critical coastal ecosystems.

Reef education specialists are planting 20,000 corals grown in rope-and-rack nurseries to restore ocean habitats and build on locally led marine innovation.

Island innovators are restoring 40,000 “super corals” to the reef to save wildlife habitat and spread global awareness.

A community cleanup team is building a plastics recovery station and saving our ocean from 350,000 kilograms of inorganic waste by 2026.

Waste management experts are using the latest tracking technology to recover 50,000 kilograms of ocean-bound plastic.

Village communities are saving forests and wetlands that are one of the largest natural carbon stores in the world, as well as protecting and rehabilitating critically endangered orangutans.

Guatemalan community members are protecting almost 54,500 hectares of coastal and cloud forest to stop 18 million tonnes of CO2 from being released.

Forest rangers are protecting over 445,000 hectares of ridge-to-reef watershed to keep carbon safely locked away.