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 acquisition 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.
Protecting Peru’s Forests
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 reserve for uncontacted indigenous people.
Sustaining the Andean Amazon
Biome helped establish the Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project, which uses remote sensing data to detect and make public the precise locations and causes of deforestation, leading to early government intervention.
Aquatic Ecosystems
Safeguarding Reefs
Our partner in Cambodia has developed an effective, inexpensive anti-trawling device that doubles as an artificial reef to safeguard marine protected areas against destructive illegal bottom-trawling.
Species
Species Protected
Our project areas are home to 531 Threatened and Near Threatened species – and these are just the ones we know about.
Protecting Migratory Birds
Biome is helping to protect the world’s most endangered migratory shorebird at key stopover and wintering sites in Latin America—the spoon-billed sandpiper in Asia.
Success Stories
Climate
Worldwide Impact
The entire world benefits from climate mitigation and adaptation associated with our projects.
People
Working With People
- 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.
Benefiting Communities
- 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.