The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS): How It Verifies Biodiversity Recovery
What makes The Global Biodiversity Standard different? Ecosia's Antonia Burchard-Levine explains how TGBS verifies real, site-based biodiversity recovery.
Impact Monitoring for Nature-Based Solutions: The Complete Guide
Key Takeaways Nature-based solutions are receiving more attention, funding and political support than ever before. Yet the ability to monitor their impact has not always developed at the same pace. For project teams, that gap has practical consequences. Planting 50,000...
OpenForests partners with Globhe
OpenForests is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Globhe, the world’s leading marketplace for on-demand drone data services. This collaboration will enhance the capabilities of our explorer.land platform by integrating high-resolution drone imagery, enabling organizations to better monitor and...
Coffee and geo-transparency with Breece Robertson
Join us for the first coffee and geo-transparency talk with Breece Robertson – geospatial expert, conservation champion, author, and community planning expert. We guarantee an informal yet highly interesting talk for your morning, afternoon, or evening coffee (or tea if...
4 Examples of Nature-Based projects using maps and data to build trust
Recent investigations such as those from The Guardian and studies such as those from Haya et al. (2023) and West et al. (2023) have unveiled that a significant portion of forest carbon initiatives lacks transparency and is of questionable quality....
Conservation International Suriname: saving 1 billion trees by building socio-ecological resilience
About Southern Suriname consists of pristine tropical rainforests that also source the rivers flowing to the coast. Trio and Wajana indigenous communities reside in the region, having preserved the forest for millennia. However, pressure from logging and gold mining is...
WeForest: bringing the Great Green Wall to life with local communities in Ethiopia and Senegal
About The Great Green Wall is an African-led initiative that began in 2007 aiming to prevent the advance of the Sahara Desert with ambitious goals to reforest 8,000 km across the entire width of Africa. It is an incredible ambition...
Acción Andina – building a community driven movement to restore 1 million hectares of high Andean forests
About Acción Andina was co-founded in 2018 by Global Forest Generation and Peru-based conservation organization ECOAN. It is a Latin-American-led, native forest landscape restoration initiative aiming to restore and protect one million hectares of high Andean, native forest ecosystems in...
Who presented at the explorer.land project stage – NOAH Zurich (6-7 Dec 2022)
The explorer.land project stage @NOAH Zurich aims to facilitate investments and funding towards impactful projects restoring and protecting nature. For the first time ever, a networking event with leading startups and investors featured a carefully curated climate & biodiversity project...
AlVelAl – expanding regenerative landscapes in South-Eastern Spain
About Since 2014, AlVelAl (Commonland’s landscape partner) have been using the 4 Returns Framework to bring together local farmers, conservationists, government, and entrepreneurs to create a common vision for the Altiplano, a semi-arid steppe in South-Eastern Spain. Currently, AlVelAl has...
