Forests Projects

• Nature-Based Solutions Origination Platform

  WWF's Nature-Based Solutions Origination Platform (NbS-OP) is an innovative vehicle to drive impact at scale for people, climate, and nature across selected tropical forest landscapes. Supporting a variety of conservation approaches—including protection, improved management, and restoration—the NbS-OP aims to generate quantifiable results in priority landscapes powered by blended finance and shift the global market for transparent, high-quality nature-based solutions (NbS). 

  

• The Mobile Basin Heirs’ Property Support Initiative

  Helping historically underserved Mississippians keep generational land and conserve working forests.
  

  

• Biogenic Carbon Footprint Calculator for Harvested Wood Products

  WWF, in partnership with Quantis, Intl., has developed a free, user-friendly calculator to calculate biogenic emissions for a variety of forest-based products. The calculator's aim is to support companies in the dynamic accounting of biogenic emissions of wood-based products, improving the quality of their greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and facilitating decision-making around the sustainable sourcing, design, and use of those products. This calculator is a beta test and, if useful and aligned with forthcoming Greenhouse Gas Protocol guidance, will be updated and improved.

• The Deforestation-Free Leather Fund

  Tropical forests and savannas are critical to our well-being — they help protect the planet’s biodiversity and safeguard against climate change. However, these vital ecosystems are under threat from the rapid expansion of cattle production, a major driver of tropical deforestation. WWF and leaders in the leather industry are launching the Deforestation-Free Leather Fund. By pooling financial resources, industry leaders can unite around a common goal of advancing sustainable and resilient leather sourcing practices. Working together, we can safeguard critical ecosystems while supporting the long-term health of our planet.

  

• Bhutan: Committed to Conservation

  Bhutan is at the heart of the Eastern Himalayas, which supplies one-third of the world’s freshwater. And the country’s forests help keep climate change at bay by absorbing carbon dioxide. Bhutan is one of the world’s 10 most biodiverse countries. But Bhutan’s natural resources are on the brink of being more threatened now than ever before, despite the government’s political will and conservation milestones. Why? The country has changed more in the last 50 years than the past 500 years combined.