Living landscapes

The Nature-Based Solutions Origination Platform (NbS-OP) works hand in hand with other WWF initiatives to secure long-term financing for large-scale, high-integrity forest protection, restoration, and responsible management efforts.

Through the NbS-OP, WWF codesigns and implements interventions with Indigenous Peoples, local communities, governments, and companies across key tropical forest regions in Brazil, Madagascar, Mexico, Peru, and Viet Nam.

Over 10 years, the NbS-OP aims to conserve, restore, or sustainably manage nearly 56,000 sq. mi., avoid 24 million metric tons of carbon emissions, and improve the well-being of more than 165,000 households.

Project Finance for Permanence (PFP) initiatives secure the policy changes and funding necessary for conservation success and bind them together in a single agreement.

This can look like creating new protected areas, ensuring community and traditional rights, or establishing longer-term funding sources. Putting everything into one agreement ensures that systems of conservation areas are well managed and sustainably financed, and benefit the communities who depend on them over the long term.

The PFP initiative in Mexico, Herencia Maya, will bring economic and ecological benefits to local communities living within protected areas, ensuring that cultural identity and nature sustain each other.