Acceptable Restoration Interventions

Companies and projects that restore trees using the following techniques are eligible for funding: 

Agroforestry

The intentional mixing and cultivation of woody perennial species (trees, shrubs, bamboos) alongside agricultural crops in a way that improves the agricultural productivity and ecological function of a site.

Applied Nucleation

A form of enrichment planting where trees are planted in groups, clusters, or even rows, dispersed throughout an area, to encourage natural regeneration in the matrix between the non-planted areas.

Assisted Natural Regeneration

The exclusion of threats (i.e. grazing, fire, invasive plants) that had previously prevented the natural regrowth of a forested area from seeds already present in the soil, or from natural seed dispersal from nearby trees. This does not include any active tree planting. Threat control interventions might include installing fencing to control grazing, removing invasive pants, etc. 

Direct Seeding

The active dispersal of seeds (preferably ecologically diverse, native seed mixes) that will allow for natural regeneration to occur, provided the area is protected from disturbances. This implies active collection and dispersal, whether by humans or drones, rather than natural dispersal by natural seed dispersers that are part of natural regeneration processes. Note that this is distinct from planting young trees.

Enrichment Planting

The strategic re-establishment of key tree species in a forest that is ecologically degraded due to a lack of certain species, without which the forest is unable to naturally sustain itself.

Mangrove Restoration

Specific interventions in the hydrological flows and/or vegetative cover to create or enhance the ecological function of a degraded mangrove tree site

Reforestation

The planting of seedlings over an area with little or no forest canopy to meet specific goals 

Riparian Restoration

Specific interventions in the hydrological flows and vegetative cover to improve the ecological function of a degraded wetland or riparian area.

Silvopasture

The intentional mixing and cultivation of woody perennial species (trees, shrubs, bamboo) on pastureland where tree cover was absent in a way that improves the agricultural productivity and ecological function of a site for continued use as pasture.