Countries have already promised to restore 1 billion hectares – an area larger than China – as part of international climate, nature, and land goals. However, little is known about the progress or quality of this restoration. With the World Restoration Flagships, the UN is honouring the best examples of large-scale and long-term ecosystem restoration in any country or region, embodying the 10 Restoration Principles of the UN Decade.
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Regreening Africa
Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia |Regreening Africa is expected to bring 5 million hectares under restoration by 2030, boosting biodiversity and supporting local communities.
Mangrove Regeneration in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka |A large-scale initiative to increase mangrove cover across Sri Lanka by more than 50 per cent.
Living Indus
Pakistan |Efforts by local communities and civil society groups to protect and restore Pakistan’s Indus Basin.
African Farmers Transforming Food Systems
Mali, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya |Trees for the Future assists hundreds of thousands of smallholder farmers in several African countries – from Senegal to Tanzania - to fight soil degradation, biodiversity loss and climate change.
Acción Andina
Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Perú |Acción Andina is protecting a critical ecosystem and championing community-led restoration of nature.
Trinational Atlantic Forest Pact
Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay |Persuading and helping landowners to let more indigenous trees grow on their land is central to one of the world’s most sustained and ambitious environmental projects.
Abu Dhabi Marine Restoration
United Arab Emirates |Abu Dhabi wants to ensure its coastal ecosystems are resilient in the face of global heating and rapid coastal development in what is already one of the world’s warmest seas.
Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative
Kazakhstan |International effort working since 2005 to save the critically endangered saiga and restore huge swaths of the grasslands that once covered much of Central Asia.
Shan-Shui Initiative
China |This initiative is an ambitious country-wide effort to restore 10 million ha of natural spaces, including forests, grasslands and waterways in China.
Great Green Wall
Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Sudan, Chad |To tackle the impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss, the countries of Africa’s Sahel region are mounting an epic response: a “wall” of restored forests and lands.