Our mission
WWF’s Transformational Initiative on Landscape Restoration in Latin America promotes innovative solutions focused on involving the public sector, companies and civil society to scale up landscape restoration efforts at the regional level. The process of stimulating transformational landscape restoration occurs both from an administrative level through governance instruments of laws, policies, and initiatives and through the participation of local people within a landscape directly implementing restoration activities.
Approaching restoration at a landscape scale is key and the Initiative works to catalyze high quality landscape restoration across 30 million hectares in Latin America. The countries involved in the initiative include Paraguay, Chile, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Belize and Honduras.
Our efforts cover multiple scales: from site level projects designed with landscape level approaches to building national and regional enabling conditions. High quality is our leitmotiv to ensure the greatest possible positive impact of restoration in the recovery of landscape ecological function and human wellbeing.
WWF is an active member of the Initiative 20x20, a space where governments have made ambitious commitments to restore land. Our advocacy work and technical knowhow supports these commitments to strengthen frameworks and implementation, as well as alignment with climate, biodiversity and sustainable development conventions.
Classification
- Farmlands
- Forests
- Freshwaters
- Grasslands, shrublands and savannahs
- Oceans and coasts
- Increases Health & Wellbeing
- Mitigates Climate Change
- Protects Freshwaters
- Reduces Disaster Risks
- Safeguards Biodiversity
- Supports Livelihoods
