Through impactful partnerships, we protect and restore the ecosystems and communities in which we work.
Our Impact
Land
Coverage Area
Our 60+ project areas combined cover 17 million hectares and include land acquired for 13 nature reserves of high conservation value.
Protecting the Amazon
Biome has helped the Kayapo Indigenous people protect 9.5 million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon with huge benefits for biodiversity and climate.
Innovative finance in Peru
Biome put in place long-term finance to protect Peru’s first conservation concession (Los Amigos), a diverse old-growth Amazonian forest that indirectly protects a vast area including a reserve for uncontacted Indigenous people.
Aquatic Ecosystems
Safeguarding marine ecosystems
Our partner in Cambodia has developed an effective, inexpensive anti-trawling device that doubles as an artificial reef and safeguards marine protected areas against destructive illegal bottom-trawling. This has improved livelihoods of local fishermen and the anti-trawling device (aka fisheries protection structures) are now being implemented broadly across Cambodia.
Species
Threatened species
Our project areas are home to 531 Threatened and Near Threatened species – and these are just the ones we know about. Data is incomplete for many project areas and any tropical species are not yet known to science!
Protecting key sites for shorebirds
Biome’s Shorebird Initiative is protecting important stopover and wintering sites in Latin America and we are protecting the Critically Endangered spoon-billed sandpiper in four countries in Asia.
Success Stories for threatened species
Climate
Worldwide Impact
The entire world benefits from climate mitigation and adaptation associated with our projects.
People
Engaging with local communities
- 1,673 people are employed or otherwise financially assisted in carrying out conservation activities.
- 7,102 are volunteers & others carrying out project activities or involved in project-led community resource management.
- 148,783 are engaged through education/outreach or consultation such as community meetings.
Human benefits
- 2.7 million people benefit from ecosystem services (e.g. water, non-timber forest products, risk reduction for landslides, etc.)
- 56,472 people benefit from the development of sustainable livelihoods (e.g. ecotourism, fishing, agroforestry, non-timber forest products such as Brazil nuts, traditional handicrafts, beekeeping).
Hungry for more?
Read our 2024 Impact Report to find out everything Biome achieved last year.