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Seeds and Sounds - Bahia

Women-led local stewards in Serra Grande, Bahia, will establish a native Atlantic Forest nursery and use AudioMoth monitoring to document biodiversity around springs, agroforestry plots, and areas selected for restoration. GreenPill Brasil supports documentation, digital coordination and learning.

gainforest.earth

GainForest is a decentralized science non-profit. We help communities own their biodiversity data and build open tools for it, from local AI assistants to bioacoustics and remote sensing.

Trees 4 the Glob- School Botanical Gardens Project

Leveraging three years of our school botanical gardens project, this phase transitions students from caretakers to active citizen scientists. Students will be trained to capture local biodiversity observations, directly contributing vital ecological data to global databases.

One Tree For One Baby

One Tree For One Baby

Restoring hope through sustainable farming in Kakuma, Kenya

I am Sumaidi Angale, the founder of Permaculture Champions and Hope Studio in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. As a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo, I have experienced the challenges of food insecurity, unemployment, environmental degradation, and limited opportunities for young people. ...

Château du Feÿ's Commons in Rural France

Social Ecology of Château du Feÿ

Regen House Commons: Renovation and Worker Housing

Updates on The Regen House Commons

Alianza Wichí: Scaling the Gran Chaco Regenerative Network

The Gran Chaco: A Biocultural Frontier Under Threat

Coastal resilience and ocean regeneration in Oceania and South Pacific

Our partners are providing and increasing terrestrial and land biodiversity protection and rehabilitation, and ocean stewardship on a vast scale. Restoring mangrove forests is protecting coastlines and sequestering carbon, coral reef restoration and conservation, and sustainable fishing practices...

Regenerating grasslands and water in communities in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Pastoralist communities steward some of the world’s largest and most important grassland ecosystems — landscapes that function simultaneously as carbon sinks, biodiversity strongholds, and economic lifelines for millions of people. Not to mention the migration pathways for elephants, zebras, and ...

Sacred Indigenous regeneration at Papawhakaritorito

Indigenous-Led Ecological and Cultural Restoration

Restoring Golden-winged Warbler habitat in Colombia's Central Andes

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Restoration of Sulphur Creek Watershed at Wilbur Hot Springs

Wilbur Hot Springs in Colusa County, California is located on revered land which was historically inhabited by the Patwin and Pomo tribes for many thousands of years. Featuring 1,800 acres with mineral-rich medicinal waters, the site is now being actively restored after decades of extractive mini...

Community-led restoration across the Global South applying analog forestry

The International Analog Forestry Network is rooted in the belief that healthy ecosystems and thriving communities depend on one another. An ecological restoration approach that mimics the structure and functions of natural forests while supporting sustainable livelihoods. By regenerating forests...

Restoring Mangrove: Protect Coastlines and Livelihoods in Bangladesh

Once there were plenty of mangroves in the periphery of the project site, but these mangroves have come under severe pressure due to climatic and anthropogenic reasons. Besides these problems, Sundarbans coastal communities have many problems, such as safe drinking water, electricity, poverty and...

Building drought-resilient livelihoods in lowland Sidama, Ethiopia

Nature Restoration for Sustainable & Climate change resilient livelihood improvement

Forest restoration and sustainable agriculture livelihoods in Meghalaya

Across Meghalaya, Indigenous communities are restoring degraded forests, reviving water sources, and building sustainable livelihoods. Through community-led ecological restoration, agroforestry, and climate-resilient agriculture practices, BIDS empowers villages to protect nature while improving ...

The Empowered Hearth: A Learning Center for Women & Community Growth

Every resilient community is built on the strength, knowledge, and leadership of its women. When you invest in a woman’s education and economic independence, you uplift an entire neighbourhood. Right now, many women in our community lack access to safe spaces, practical skills training, and the r...

Building a Resilient Community Commons

Every vibrant community needs a physical anchor a place where neighbours become collaborators, youth find purpose, and elders share wisdom. Right now, our neighbourhood lacks a safe, accessible, and dedicated space for people to gather, learn, and grow together. This absence isolates individuals,...

Building a Free Film Training Center

Every powerful movement starts with a single voice, but not everyone has the tools to make their voice heard. High-quality film education and cinematic gear are locked behind expensive university walls or restricted to wealthy areas. We are changing that by launching a community-driven film educa...

Trees for Himalayas, Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand

The “Trees for Himalayas” is a project based in Barkot, Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand, located at an altitude of approximately 1,220 metres in the Himalayan region. Once known for its rich green landscapes and ecological stability, the region is now increasingly affected by climate change impa...

FarmIT: A Decentralized Autonomous Organization for Sustainable Agriculture

FarmIT was conceived as a systemic response to the persistent industry problems plaguing global agriculture, specifically the high concentration of market control by large corporate entities and the increasing barriers preventing small-scale producers from accessing capital and land. We recognize...

Market Street Rooftop And Indoor Farm Pilot

Urban Hub Farms

The Dreaming Seed Regenerates

From Regenerated Soil to a Child's Hands

Creative Regeneration of Fire-Scarred Land in Northern Portugal

A Corujeira sits in a secluded valley in the Gerês mountains of northern Portugal, on one hectare of land still marked by a fire that burned through 15 years ago. Before that: corn terraces, then vineyards worked with heavy pesticides, then eucalyptus monoculture draining the water table, a dense...

Jaguar Guardians — community youth protecting Mexico's last wild jaguars

Strengthening local food systems in Motueka

Kai Anamata mō Aotearoa is a community-led initiative focused on strengthening food security, resilient food systems, and community wellbeing in Te Tauihu and beyond. Through Project KAMA, Wakatū Incorporation is working alongside whānau, growers, producers, researchers, community organisations, ...

Rebuilding Vale de Água's native tree nursery

From the 5th to the 8th of August 2023, wildfire swept through our valley near Odeceixe and São Teotónio. The entire land burned, no exception. We lost homes, our vegetable garden, every length of water pipe and tank across eleven hectares, and our young reforestation. Among the losses was our tr...

Building emergency readiness in Motueka with Te Āwhina Marae

Building a Stronger Motueka

Nashira energy hub: structural upgrades for solar autonomy

🌍 E.CO NASHIRA: Integral Energy Community & Digital Governance

Sugarcane nursery for soil recovery in Tamil Nadu

Enabling Rural Communities in Japan to Host Regenerative Co-living Programs

kuu village is a perma-pop-up village experiment that brings together technologists, local community leaders, designers, architects, artists, and land stewards to live and work on the land together for one to three weeks at a time. Money raised in this campaign will go directly to building the ho...

Urban Regeneration: Fostering More-Than-Human Communities by Digital Tokens

Restoring the South Rift: community-led rangeland recovery

South Rift Landscape Regeneration and Community Resilience

Gente do Conduru Atlantic Forest Nursery BAHIA

Led by Joselita Machado, Gente do Conduru connects a regenerative nursery, community-based tourism, and Atlantic Forest stewardship, documenting seedlings, biodiversity, and restoration activities in Serra Grande, Bahia.

Korail Urban-Eco Restoration: Pollinator Habitats for Community Agriculture

Korail, Dhaka's largest informal settlement, is home to thousands of climate-affected migrants who face extreme urban heat, severe water pollution, and limited green spaces. These pressures have devastated local biodiversity, particularly pollinators and beneficial insects, undermining the ecosys...

Living Soil (Jeevit Mitti) Mission: Regenerating Punjab

Living Soil (Jeevit Mitti) Mission: Regenerating Punjab

Kampung Kampus: Fighting Apathy Through Community-Led Regeneration

Kampung Kampus: Fighting Apathy Through Community-Led Regeneration

Abejas del Sur: Regenerative Beekeeping in Gran Sabana

GOTAS

Plant Water, Sow Life

Planting water replenishes groundwater. When groundwater is sustained by the shape of the land, there is more opportunity for biodiversity to thrive as more ecosystems have access to that which resources their vitality. All wildlife benefits from the increase in biodiversity.

Revitalizing Andean Livelihoods

Building thriving local economies and revitalizing Andean livelihoods

Transformational community residencies researching regenerative culture

In the continued phases of Regenera’s residencies, the organization creates time-bound experiments in living regenerative culture. Each phase gathers a small group of residents in a different place to live together for several weeks, practice the tools in daily life, run experiments together, and...

Parque das Tribos Conservation Tech Hub for Youth

Parque das Tribos sits at the heart of Manaus, home to indigenous families from dozens of nations who have long held deep knowledge of the forest and its life. In collaboration with GainForest, we ran two co-creation workshops introducing the community to Taina, a Telegram-based bot that allows u...

Karkin Food and Health Hub (Carquinez Strait/Bay Delta)

Regenerating the Carquinez Strait

Fostering Environmental Stewardship on Rancho Tajiguas Preserve

Rancho Tajiguas Preserve

Indigenous-Led Urban Resilience and Innovation Hub

Vision: An Indigenous-Led, Matriarchal, Regenerative Community Hub

Building living food systems across Ecuador's communities

Across Ecuador’s northern highlands, communities, educators, farmers, and children are reimagining the role of food in education. While school feeding programs are often designed as technical interventions focused on nutrition and food delivery, many schools are building something much broader: l...

Upholding IP Rights: Against the Jalaur River Multi-Purpose Project II

The Jalaur River Multi-Purpose Project Stage II (JRMP II) is the first large-scale water reservoir to be constructed by the National Irrigation Administration (NIA) in Western Visayas, Philippines and is a flagship  project of the Marcos Administration, highlighted in the 2024 State of the Nation...

Carbon 1: Community Biochar in Rural Eastern India

Our Mission and Personal Connection

Achuar biocultural conservation and biodiversity monitoring in the Amazon

Biocultural Strategy: The Achuar People's Path to a Living Amazon

Donelson Creek Restoration Project

Restoring Donelson Creek to Health

Native plant nursery for Atlantic Forest restoration in São Paulo, Brazil

Native Plant Nursery and Environmental Education for Atlantic Forest Restoration

r3.0 Bioregional Confluencing Community & Fund 2026

The r3.0 Bioregional Confluencing Fund supports bioregional groups doing on-the-ground regenerative work to gather in person in parallel with the r3.0 Bioregional Conference to 1) learn from the Conference content; 2) learn from all the other Bioregional Confluences in the daily reflection sessio...

Middle Beef

Desde el corazón del trópico húmedo en el municipio de Jesús Carranza, Veracruz, enfrentamos una realidad crítica: la ganadería tradicional ha operado históricamente como una actividad extractiva, degradando los ecosistemas y marginando financieramente al pequeño productor rural. Los desafíos del...

Teaching conservation through stories in the Dominican Republic

Eco Ernesto Visita was created to address one of the Dominican Republic’s greatest challenges: protecting biodiversity and natural ecosystems while creating opportunities for local communities to thrive. We believe conservation succeeds when people understand, value, and benefit from nature.

Kábata Könana: Indigenous Women Defenders of Mountains and Food Sovereignty

Kábata Könana: Reclaiming Food Sovereignty in Talamanca

Seven Islands reef and mangrove restoration project

Seven Islands, One Sea

Building West Africa's beekeeping hub in Serti, Nigeria

Apart from our success stories with various donors supports for beekeeping projects based on our aims and objectives from 2002 .Presently (May 2026 ) the Chez Embassy in Nigeria approved a grant of 20,000 Euros for 200 beneficiaries as couples

Securing endangered species habitat in Ecuador's cloud forests

In northwestern Ecuador, where the Chocó and Andes meet, some of the most biodiverse forests on Earth are disappearing. These forests shelter species found nowhere else, including the Critically Endangered Manduriacu Glassfrog (Nymphargus manduriacu), the Tandayapa Andean Toad (Rhaebo olallai), B...

Restoring Zaña's riparian forest through women-led regenerative farming

Guardians of the Seasonally Dry Riparian Forest

Wetland Restoration Agriculture at Landwell

When we began this work two years ago, the south-facing hillside at Landwell was an impenetrable wall of Himalayan blackberry - a slope none of us had ever walked across, dense enough to hide an entire vehicle buried underneath (as we discovered later). Today, this same hillside hosts a lush cove...

Protecting biocultural heritage in Guatemala

The Network of Territories of Life and its Biocultural Heritage The extraordinary richness of Mesoamerican indigenous territories is intrinsically linked to the ancestral practices and knowledge of their peoples, through relationships of reciprocity and adaptive co-evolution built over millennia ...

Digital watershed defense network, Peru's macro north

COMMUNITY DIGITAL WATER MONITOR

Collaborative Restoration of Indigenous Agro-Ecology of Western Maine

Restoring Native Food Forests in Western Maine

Puso Sanctuary: A Bioregional Learning Center for Regenerative Resilience

Restoring Cebu's Forests, Protecting Communities

Paraná Delta regenerative education lab

El Pantano: Where the Impossible Future Becomes Real

Eco School Initiative

Tree Solutions Ghana's Eco School project, aims to establish School Gardens in five public primary schools in Ghana’s Western Region, in order to develop the next generation of agriculturalists excited about learning and farming, and empower primary school pupils with resources to be able to stud...

Bioregional Mapping for Indigenous-Led Regeneration of a Sacred Mountain

The Heart of the World: Bioregional Mapping of a Sacred Mountain for Indigenous-Led Regeneration

Growing food security at HOPE/ Family Promise shelter, Tallahassee

Farming the Future prides itself on holistic, relationship-based regenerative practices that connect individuals in transitional housing with each other and with the living environment around them, creating the conditions for both people and the community to thrive. Money raised in this campaign ...

Evidence-based learning diagnostics in São Paulo

Viaintensiva: Evidence Over Entertainment

Every Wave Carries the Breath of the World

The Viable Marketplace

Most of the harm we do to living systems is hidden inside ordinary transactions. A usable chair goes to landfill because reselling it is a hassle. A working appliance is replaced because repair feels harder than buying new. Food travels across a continent when a sustainable producer sits a few st...

Healing Foods After Incarceration + the Black Ecologies Garden in Humboldt

Why healing, food, and land belong together

Allpa Kawsay: Renacer de la Tierra

Project History

Restoring Ngāpeke wetlands with native plants and community power

The Ngāpeke 7 landblock is a 42acre māori landblock situated in Tauranga Moana and is the base of our operations. More than half the block is a repo (wetland) and the Waitao river runs along the edge of the wetland. Ninty five percent (95%) of vegetation in the repo in 2019 were common noxious we...

ESS Chorotega: mountain-to-ocean regeneration in Costa Rica's Blue Zone

ESS Chorotega Life Zone: Restoring Costa Rica's Blue Zone Through Community-Led Regeneration

Youth environmental action hub in Cape Town

Organization: Mayine e Afrika Foundation Project: Community Environmental Learning Centre and School Environmental Education Network (Cape Town)

Careshade Community Climate and Ecosystem Restoration Initiative

CareShade Organisation was founded from a shared belief that environmental protection begins with empowered communities. In many communities across Tanzania, environmental challenges such as deforestation, poor waste management, climate change impacts, and low environmental awareness continue to ...

Regenerating Magicland: Natural Living learning centre and Village of Round

The land we are stewards of was called Magicland when we purchased it. It is 50 acres of diversely planted land. It was a barren cattle farm 60 years ago. In the 1980’s a couple planted over 1000 trees. And the people following them planted more trees.

Scale Up Of the Mau Restoration Project in the Mau Complex Ecosystem, Kenya

This initiative aims to expand and replicate phase 1 of the AFD project through rehabilitation of priority watersheds of other degraded sites of the Mau forest ecosystem. The project targets Mau Complex, a critical ecosystem whose waters feed into Lake Victoria and the Nile River. This is well-al...

Giant Squeaker Frog sanctuary in the Sui River Forest Reserve, Ghana

The Sui River Forest Reserve supports at least 83 globally threatened species including the critically endangered Giant Squeaker Frog (Arthroleptis krokosua). Our long term vision is that the forest landscape becomes a fully protected ecological stronghold for the species, secured through formal ...

Community Asset Vouchers for Sierra Nevada, Colombia

The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta — known to its indigenous peoples as Umunukunu, the Heart of the World — is one of the most biodiverse and spiritually significant territories on Earth. Four indigenous peoples — the Arhuaco, Kogui, Wiwa, and Kankuamo — have served as guardians of this sacred land...

Regenerative avocado farming in Cádiz, Spain

Vega de La Motilla Farm is a family-owned organic avocado estate where Paola and José cultivate more than just crops—they're nurturing an entire ecosystem. Through regenerative land management, they've transformed their property into a thriving habitat where agriculture and nature work in harmony.

Forest gardens and food sovereignty in the Amazon

Arte Escola by Tera Kuno is a community-based initiative in the Brazilian Amazon connecting agroecology, environmental education, art, and food sovereignty. Through living classrooms in the forest, farmers, educators, artists, and youth co-create regenerative practices that restore ecosystems, st...

Healing the Whenua Through Native Forest Regeneration

BioBonds NZ

Digital forest watch: Mai-Ndombe ecosystem recovery

Problem Statement

Financing Amazon stewardship in Brazil's Upper Rio Negro

Sacred Streams Coalition: Financing Indigenous-Led Amazon Stewardship

From Wetlands to Bodies: A Community-Based Lab for Ecological Restoration

Guayaba Colectivo is a community-based ecological restoration and research initiative rooted in the flooded savannas of Colombia. Working across more than 1,000 hectares of wetlands, biodiversity sanctuaries, and regenerative pastoral landscapes, we explore a question often absent from conservati...

Restoring Tierra Blanca Creek in the Texas Panhandle

Care for the Tierra Blanca

Restoring Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains by Planting Food Forests

Restoring Hope in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains

Planting mangroves, empowering youth in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone's mangrove forests are disappearing and with them, the livelihoods, food security, and coastal protection that countless communities depend on. But there's hope. Nature for Mangroves is fighting back. Through strategic planting, climate education, and youth engagement, we're reversin...

Blue Carbon Adaptation and Mitigation Project

Ghana's mangrove forests are disappearing fast. Over the past few decades, the country has lost up to 80% of these vital ecosystems to coastal development, overfishing, pollution, and climate change. This devastating decline isn't just an environmental concern, it's a humanitarian crisis.

From Mud to Lotus: Regenerating Land on the Nile

From Mud to Lotus: Regenerating Land on the Nile

Beaver Cohabitation + Human Foodways: Growing plants to feed everyone.

We at LivingFuture Foundation's SHO Farm in Vermont have been involved in many wildlife coexistence efforts, both on our farm in our practice of wildlife-assisted agroforestry, as well as a collaborator with other organizations.. Only in the last 5 years have we been privileged to deeply embrace ...

Youth environmental champions in Dodoma, Tanzania

BlueLeaf Tanzania: Growing Change in Dodoma