Ma Earth Round 3 · impact

Where the money went, measured

197 of the 201 funded projects, joined against public biodiversity data: GBIF sampling density, Biodiversity Intactness, Hansen forest loss, Map of Life threatened-species data, and a site-level STAR-style extinction-risk metric whose every assumption is on this page.

Reached land stewards

$2,175,836

$988,609 crowd + $1,187,227 match

Projects funded

201

197 covered here (98%)

Individual donors

11,701

quadratic funding

Countries

platform fee 0 bps

Community-led

88%

local or Indigenous-led

How to read this page. Everything below characterises where the money went, not what the money did. Funding figures come from Ma Earth's public per-project pages; impact claims are self-reported by projects and carry their basis (achieved vs planned); biodiversity context comes from independent public datasets sampled at each project's coordinates. The STAR-style score is an explicit ceiling with adjustable assumptions — that is the point of the explorer below.

Portfolio evidence

Important, intact, under pressure, unmeasured

Four independent public datasets, sampled at each project's coordinates. Each panel states its source, scale, and caveat.

Important

Median 311.5 threatened species in a project's surrounding region

Source: Map of Life species lists per admin-1 region · IUCN Red List categories

Caveat: Regional context: a project inherits its province's species. Not a site-level count.

Intact

Median Biodiversity Intactness 0.72 — a quarter of sites above 0.87, a quarter below 0.54

Source: Impact Observatory BII 2020, 100 m, sampled at the site point

Caveat: Both tails are the point: high = frontier protection, low = restoration need. Compare within portfolio; BII products differ in baseline.

Under pressure

65 of 196 sites lost >1% of surrounding forest cells in 2020–2024 alone

Source: Hansen Global Forest Change 2024 v1.12, ~10 km window per site

Caveat: Hansen loss includes plantation harvest cycles (e.g. rotational eucalyptus in Portugal reads as high loss).

Unmeasured

Median 35k GBIF records per ~25 km cell — a reference cell in Belgium holds 2.0M (≈57×)

Source: GBIF occurrence counts, 0.25° cell per site vs European reference cells

Caveat: Measures sampling effort, not biodiversity. 58 sites sit in cells with under 10k records.

Explorable explainer

Extinction-risk units, with the assumptions in your hands

STAR (Mair et al. 2021) asks: how much of the world's total extinction-risk-reduction opportunity sits at this site? Every threatened species contributes its Red List weight, multiplied by the share of its global habitat the site could hold. We compute a STAR-style proxy from Map of Life data — and because the result depends on assumptions, this section lets you move them and watch the number change.

STAR-lite = abatement × Σ over threatened species [ weight_NT=1…CR=4 × min(1, 314 km²·f / global habitat km²) × 100 ]

Site footprint radius: 10 km (314 km²)

How much land the project plausibly influences. The default 10 km is a modelling choice, not a fact — drag it and see the sensitivity.

Abatement fraction: 100% (ceiling)

100% assumes the project removes every threat on its footprint — an upper bound, never an outcome. Real projects deliver a slice.

Forest-dependence adjustment

Forest-dependent species only count the site's actual tree-cover fraction (Hansen 2000).

Include reptiles

Official STAR covers birds, mammals, amphibians. Reptiles are an extension.

Portfolio STAR-lite

62,290

194 scored sites

Units per $1,000

28.6

across $2,175,836

Top 10 sites under the current assumptions.

Which species carry a site's score?

Fundación Guanacas Bosques de Niebla · Antioquia · site STAR-lite 1837 from 59 present threatened species (+8 present but unquantified). Species with the smallest global habitat dominate — that is the design of the metric.

Species	Class	Red List	Global habitat	Site share	Units
Rhinella nicefori · Colombian Beaked Toad	amphibian	EN	10 km²	100%	300.0
Pristimantis scoloblepharus · Los Patos Robber Frog	amphibian	EN	80 km²	100%	300.0
Pristimantis maculosus · Spotted Robber Frog	amphibian	VU	75 km²	100%	200.0
Colostethus thorntoni · Thornton's Rocket Frog	amphibian	VU	94 km²	100%	200.0
Pristimantis suetus	amphibian	VU	128 km²	100%	200.0
Niceforonia latens	amphibian	VU	525 km²	60%	119.7
Pristimantis lemur	amphibian	VU	294 km²	57%	113.8
Pristimantis gracilis · Pichinde Robber Frog	amphibian	VU	338 km²	50%	99.1
Nymphargus rosada · Reseda Glass Frog	amphibian	VU	453 km²	37%	73.9
Pristimantis parectatus	amphibian	EN	1,529 km²	21%	61.6
Hyloscirtus denticulentus · Charta Tree Frog	amphibian	VU	773 km²	22%	43.3
Hyloscirtus antioquia · Paisa Frog	amphibian	VU	870 km²	19%	38.5

Showing the top 12 of 59 contributing species.

What this is not. This is a STAR-style proxy, not the licensed IUCN STAR layer: Map of Life habitat areas stand in for IUCN Area-of-Habitat, presence is inferred from range bounds and elevation limits rather than confirmed occupancy, and no threat-apportioning is applied — a project addressing agriculture cannot claim the share of a species' risk driven by mining. Use it to rank and to reason about orders of magnitude, never as a promised outcome.

All projects

The portfolio, project by project

Default sort is STAR-lite per dollar at the standard assumptions (10 km footprint, ceiling abatement). Click any row for the project's claims, context, and top species; click a column to re-sort.

Project	Country	Funding	STAR-lite	per $1k ↓	BII	Loss 20–24	Thr. spp (region)
Fundación Guanacas Bosques de Niebla Propagación de especies nativas para los bosques Altoandinos	CO	$3,686	1,837	498.4	0.56	0.6%	1,131
Fundacion ProAves Colombia Magnolia recovery and forest restoration in the Colombian Andes	CO	$3,959	1,604	405.1	0.85	0.1%	837
Native Forest Restoration Trust Restoring native forest in Aotearoa	NZ	$4,005	1,120	279.7	0.74	0.0%	252
Girls who Grow Unlocking young women's IMAGINATIONS: Designing a climate positive future	NZ	$4,379	1,134	259.1	0.79	0.2%	252
International Analog Forestry Network Community-led restoration across the Global South applying analog forestry	CR	$4,504	1,075	238.7	0.32	0.2%	765
Wakatũ Incorporation Strengthening local food systems in Motueka	NZ	$3,852	849	220.4	0.58	1.0%	240
INSTITUTO FELINOS DO AGUAÍ Restoring the Serra Geral Forest: water, wildlife, and community	BR	$4,022	849	211.1	0.74	0.5%	459
Fundacion Allpa Tarpuna Allpa Kawsay: Renacer de la Tierra	EC	$3,774	769	203.7	0.34	0.0%	421
Fundación Montecito Muyso School – The Citizen Science & Restoration Hub	CO	$6,611	1,209	182.8	0.78	0.0%	449
Sustainable Ocean Alliance Tanzania (SOA Tanzania) Restoring Bagamoyo's mangroves and seagrass meadows	TZ	$4,306	767	178.1	0.61	0.3%	492
Kawatiri Nature Environment & Communities Trust Creating sustainable models for food resilience and access to nature	NZ	$4,976	883	177.5	—	0.0%	216
BATWA INDIGENOUS DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (BIDO) Kashija food sovereignty cooperative for Batwa communities	UG	$4,121	729	176.9	0.59	3.0%	135
El Pantano Paraná Delta regenerative education lab	AR	$3,868	682	176.4	0.87	1.1%	254
Seatrees Seatrees+ Mangrove Restoration in Marereni, Kenya	KE	$4,196	735	175.3	0.75	0.1%	463
Ngāpeke Permaculture Restoring Ngāpeke wetlands with native plants and community power	NZ	$3,742	648	173.2	0.63	0.1%	323
Amazon Sacred Headwaters Alliance Restoring ancestral food forests in Panintza, Ecuadorian Amazon	EC	$5,685	899	158.2	0.60	2.2%	396
Mangaroa Farms Fruit & Forage Walking Trail	NZ	$7,810	1,170	149.8	0.83	2.4%	252
Te Mana o Tauhara Charitable Trust Recloaking the native cloak of Tauhara Maunga, Aotearoa (New Zealand)	NZ	$3,840	572	149.1	0.86	4.0%	364
Asociación de Mujeres Indígenas Kábata Könana Kábata Könana: Indigenous Women Defenders of Mountains and Food Sovereignty	CR	$4,053	601	148.2	0.73	3.5%	753
Youth Pawa The Mangrove Eco-Restoration Project	KE	$5,123	744	145.3	0.70	0.2%	265
Fundación Senderos Regenerative Landscapes for Community Resilience in Venezuela	VE	$11,066	1,582	143.0	0.47	0.1%	357
Naveducando Fundación Civil A Galapagos Sailing Oceanic Classroom	EC	$5,514	749	135.8	0.74	0.0%	261
Conservation Volunteers New Zealand Whaka-Ora Pest Project, Supporting Native Biodiversity in Lyttelton Harbour	NZ	$9,013	1,189	131.9	0.22	0.0%	355
Grow Wānaka Grow Wānaka community resilience hub: from food waste to local harvests	NZ	$7,354	964	131.1	0.79	0.1%	222
Papawhakaritorito Charitable Trust Sacred Indigenous regeneration at Papawhakaritorito	NZ	$9,567	1,155	120.8	0.86	3.2%	252
SELVA: Investigación para la Conservación en el Neotrópico Restoring Golden-winged Warbler habitat in Colombia's Central Andes	CO	$6,664	782	117.3	0.61	2.0%	343
V-Day A Living Classroom: Regenerative Farming, Food Security & Healing in Congo	CD	$5,009	580	115.9	0.53	1.4%	351
Estudios Rurales y Asesoría Campesina, A.C. Cacao justo y regenerativo	MX	$7,372	838	113.7	0.55	2.3%	1,063
The Food Farm From the Earth to Table: Growing Food & Biodiversity, Building Community	NZ	$10,603	1,189	112.1	0.47	0.2%	355
Te Tira Whakamātaki Pelts with Purpose: Training Hunters Across Aotearoa New Zealand	NZ	$10,026	1,120	111.7	0.74	0.0%	252
Grassroots Economics Takaungu watershed community led restoration, Kilifi, Kenya	KE	$6,374	702	110.2	0.72	1.1%	463
Wilbur Hot Springs Restoration of Sulphur Creek Watershed at Wilbur Hot Springs	US	$3,444	377	109.4	0.89	2.0%	881
Mount Kenya Trust Restored Mount Kenya Ecosystems Where People and Nature Coexist	KE	$4,689	501	106.9	0.93	0.0%	126
Living Story Landscapes Puso Sanctuary: A Bioregional Learning Center for Regenerative Resilience	PH	$4,792	488	101.7	0.38	0.1%	351
Biodynamics New Zealand Growing Rhythms: A Biodynamic Living Curriculum & School Garden Initiative	NZ	$8,562	813	94.9	0.60	0.1%	391
Los Higuerones Coop Manos Cambiadas - Restoring reciprocity on the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.	CR	$9,943	942	94.7	0.92	0.7%	920
Mangarara - The Family Farm Regenerating Together @ Mangarara farm in Hawke's Bay	NZ	$11,978	927	77.4	0.89	0.5%	302
Instituto Favela da Paz Periferia Sustentável: Regenerative Futures from São Paulo's Urban Edge	BR	$5,202	402	77.2	0.37	1.2%	838
Forests for Monarchs Native forest restoration for the monarch migration	MX	$10,175	743	73.0	0.56	1.1%	484
Green World Campaign Kenya Sacred forest restoration and a community biodiversity park	KE	$12,222	868	71.0	0.39	2.7%	463
Tierra Valiente (Brave Earth) Food sovereignty and community resilience in San Juan, Costa Rica	CR	$7,244	511	70.6	0.90	0.5%	684
Cultiva Ciudad Huerto Tlatelolco: Restoring Land and Growing Community through Agroecology	MX	$12,953	902	69.6	0.30	0.0%	107
Waiheke Marine Project Kelp Gardeners: Restoring Ecosystems - Kaitiakitanga, Mātauranga, & Science	NZ	$10,599	736	69.5	0.79	0.0%	391
Salumayag Youth Collective for Forests Reweaving future forests: Upland peoples mending forest fragmentations	PH	$4,148	275	66.2	0.93	1.4%	313
SamaÚma Ações baseadas na Natureza Native seeds, thriving forests: ecological restoration in Brazil	BR	$4,449	280	63.0	0.89	1.8%	436
Associação Eden Reforestation Reconnecting forests in Chimanimani National Park	MZ	$6,134	382	62.3	0.93	8.8%	168
Tierra Proyecto Restoring cacao forests in Chiapas, Mexico	MX	$6,440	396	61.5	0.88	1.2%	985
Delicious Revolution Growing 1,000 young leaders in Auckland from seed	NZ	$11,639	711	61.0	0.26	0.0%	391
Protect the Andes Páramo climate watch: Salento's biological island	CO	$22,219	1,337	60.2	0.96	0.0%	231
The Learning Environment Cultivating an Integrated Model for Learning, Healing and Regeneration	NZ	$18,831	1,124	59.7	0.86	0.5%	403
LEAD Foundation From degraded land to thriving ecosystems in Kongwa and Mpwapwa	TZ	$3,857	223	57.8	0.90	0.0%	737
Ebiil Society, Inc. Restoring Mesei, Cultural Taro Patches, in Ollei, Palau	PW	$7,095	394	55.5	0.63	0.0%	100
Ngāti Pūkenga Iwi ki Tauranga Trust Giving voice to taonga in the Waitao catchment and beyond	NZ	$14,228	788	55.4	0.87	3.2%	323
Community Forests International Zanzibar Spice Forests: Women Restoring Edible Canopies for Life	TZ	$11,716	624	53.2	0.45	0.4%	224
FOLONA (for the love of nature) Community-led agroforestry	UG	$8,882	402	45.2	0.73	3.5%	133
Ruamāhanga Farm Foundation Ruamāhanga River revival through young people's conservation & creativity	NZ	$21,428	951	44.4	0.51	0.2%	252
Pró-Onça Institute Restoring jaguar corridors in Goiás, Brazil	BR	$11,874	508	42.8	0.61	0.6%	279
Landwell Wetland Restoration Agriculture at Landwell	US	$9,771	410	41.9	0.62	0.2%	881
Amazon Rainforest Conservancy Northern Peru Securing a Critical Wildlife Corridor in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest	PE	$24,766	1,008	40.7	0.96	0.1%	360
Agroecology Articulation in Rio de Janeiro State Peasant to Peasant agroecology in Serrana Leste, Rio de Janeiro	BR	$6,910	279	40.3	0.92	0.4%	812
Fundación Saimiri “Forest Friends: Restoring Wildlife Corridors in Osa”	CR	$15,597	569	36.5	0.41	0.4%	920
Slash for Cash Slash For Cash: Healing Whenua; Healing Whanau	NZ	$6,217	225	36.3	0.73	0.1%	329
Tuqtuquilal Protecting Maya Q'eqchi Biocultural Heritage & Agroforests in Guatemala	GT	$10,769	379	35.1	0.69	8.1%	350
Los Angeles Community Garden Council Shared Land, Shared Leadership: Community Gardens in Los Angeles	US	$10,757	371	34.5	0.28	0.0%	881
Miti Alliance Regenerative gardens and Miyawaki forests across Central Kenya	KE	$4,822	166	34.4	0.60	0.1%	131
Koanga Institute Honoring Our Waterways	NZ	$18,571	621	33.5	0.93	1.7%	302
For the Love of Wildlife Ltd Project PanGaia - Rewilding Australia's Desert Heart	AU	$13,311	413	31.1	0.97	0.0%	1,061
Corals for Conservation Rescuing Fiji's coral reefs from heat waves	FJ	$6,041	187	31.0	0.56	0.7%	284
Global Forest Generation Acción Andina: Continental Ecosystem Restoration	PE	$8,104	226	27.9	0.98	0.1%	379
La Colectiva Valle Machuca Water Keepers: Spring Protection & Riverbank Regeneration for Machuca River	CR	$22,792	616	27.0	0.86	0.3%	684
The Community Mobilization Against Poverty(CMAP) Grow biointensive farming in Kitale, Kenya	KE	$3,884	105	27.0	0.45	1.7%	96
Paran Women Group Indigenous Women Leading Community Restoration and Climate Resilience	KE	$5,825	149	25.6	0.63	0.1%	134
Black Jaguar Foundation The Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor	BR	$8,394	213	25.4	0.81	6.3%	567
AMPELA Terra Baobab : Restoring Madagascar's baobabs through women entrepreneurs	MG	$3,982	97	24.4	0.96	0.2%	1,521
Panama Wildlife Conservation Tree Guardians of Cerro Hoya: Restoring Macaw Forests in Panama	PA	$11,692	282	24.1	0.96	0.2%	451
Wild Waikawa Conservation Trust Wild Waikawa NZ - ancient cultural forest, engaging youth, at-risk species	NZ	$32,241	776	24.1	0.95	0.5%	222
Yayasan Puge Figo Protection of the forest ecosystem in Flores Island	ID	$9,597	230	24.0	0.74	0.1%	371
Small Mammal Conservation Organization Restoring Fire-Degraded Habitats in Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary	NG	$3,769	88	23.3	0.93	1.0%	447
Bangalow Koalas Inc. Closing the gap: koala habitat reconnection in South Gundurimba, NSW	AU	$5,389	121	22.5	0.50	0.5%	855
Guardians Worldwide Mau Forest Rescue	KE	$15,531	349	22.5	0.34	0.2%	152
Kino Bay Center for Cultural and Ecological Studies Community-based conservation of critical habitats in the Gulf of California	MX	$3,825	81	21.2	0.69	0.0%	415
RegenNow Farms Growing food sovereignty: 50 gardens for Kampala refugees and natives	UG	$5,834	119	20.4	0.53	4.6%	162
OTEPIC Indigenous crop value addition through solar drying in Kenya	KE	$5,349	105	19.6	0.33	1.2%	96
school for inclement weather School for Inclement Weather: Fire Stewardship in Northern California	US	$21,253	415	19.5	0.89	0.7%	881
Taranaki Mounga Project Limited Protecting Kaitake and Pukeiti from invasive rats	NZ	$6,522	114	17.5	0.93	0.5%	244
The Returning Indigenous Corporation Caring for Country – A First Nations-led Bush Food Nursery	AU	$7,890	137	17.4	0.63	1.7%	855
Earth Regenerators Sueños del Bosque: A Bioregional Learning Ecosystem in Barichara, Colombia	CO	$7,924	137	17.3	0.69	0.7%	505
The Leatherback Project Iluminar el Mar: Combatting Fisheries Bycatch of Endangered Marine Species	EC	$10,316	170	16.5	0.32	0.0%	547
Árbol co(n)razón Roots & Routes: Restoring Andean forests with Community-based Tourism	EC	$23,712	390	16.5	0.90	0.3%	767
Earth Guardians Tagba Rainforest Restoration Project: Roots, Canopy & Community	TG	$19,374	308	15.9	0.71	5.3%	139
Weaving Earth, Inc. ATTUNE: Nature-Based Leadership for Community Resilience	US	$26,349	413	15.7	0.83	0.8%	881
Buffalo Back Consumer Federation Kai Thota: Growing women-led agricultural collectives in India	IN	$7,403	114	15.4	0.52	0.5%	620
Panya Forest Restoring Water and Livelihoods at Panya Forest	TH	$27,875	421	15.1	0.63	0.3%	305
Fundacion Raíz Ecuador Living clay: Siekoya women reviving forests and traditions	EC	$5,358	80	14.8	0.86	2.1%	440
CurrentShift Shifting Currents with Communities through Science, Stories, and Solidarity	PH	$9,075	131	14.5	0.75	0.0%	289
Provita Securing Agroforestry and Resilience in Venezuela's Coastal Range	VE	$13,957	198	14.2	0.39	0.1%	300
Support for Women in Agriculture and Environment (SWAGEN) Restoring Rwoho: community-led forest and climate action	UG	$3,776	49	13.1	0.70	1.8%	122
SPVS Restoring the Atlantic Forest in Paraná, Brazil	BR	$6,969	91	13.0	0.87	0.1%	533
BSU Mandiri Regenerating Communities Through Circular Waste Systems	ID	$5,905	71	12.0	0.46	0.1%	512
Mycelium Learning Network Finca Kosmos living Regenerative School in Guanacaste, Costa Rica	CR	$6,567	76	11.6	—	0.0%	614
YAKUM Bosque Semilla: Amazonian Living Seed Bank Forest in Napo, Ecuador	EC	$24,503	282	11.5	0.49	3.5%	689
Regenar Development Initiative This land wants, not better waste collection, but a material flow economy	UG	$9,553	109	11.4	0.61	2.0%	162
Go Eco (Waikato Environment Centre) Marae-Led Kai Sovereignty and Climate Resilience Initiative	NZ	$65,736	747	11.4	0.90	0.7%	364
Zingela Ulwazi Trust 10 Trees: Growing Food Security and Regenerative Communities	ZA	$7,687	87	11.3	0.47	2.6%	396
GEN Ukraine Regenerating Land and Community Resilience in Ukraine	UA	$12,249	137	11.2	0.57	0.1%	54
The Jaguar Rescue Center (JRC) Reconnecting the Canopy: Safe Passage for Wildlife	CR	$25,117	278	11.1	0.58	0.9%	753
Kibale Ass'n For Rural and Environmental Development (KAFRED) Enhancing productivity of Bigodi wetland through regenerative bee keeping.	UG	$5,996	64	10.7	0.67	2.9%	129
Comoris DAO Urban Regeneration: Fostering More-Than-Human Communities by Digital Tokens	JP	$13,797	143	10.4	0.34	0.0%	354
Ecotone Center for Land-based Healing + Transformative Justice Healing Foods After Incarceration + the Black Ecologies Garden in Humboldt	US	$6,880	71	10.3	0.71	1.9%	881
Environmental Action Restoring tabaquillo forests in Córdoba, Argentina	AR	$4,182	43	10.3	0.28	0.0%	86
Native Conservancy OceanBack: Indigenous Kelp Nurseries for Coastal Alaska	US	$4,203	42	10.1	0.72	0.0%	196
Beyond Carbon Connecting Global Carbon Data with Local Community Knowledges in Indonesia	ID	$4,552	44	9.7	0.79	14.2%	881
Mizu Eco-Care Scaling sustainable agriculture in Kakumbi Chiefdom, Zambia	ZM	$3,902	37	9.6	0.86	0.0%	139
Yayasan Gambut Mangrove and peatland recovery in Riau Province	ID	$6,217	56	8.9	0.68	10.5%	585
Fundación Monte Alegre Brotes del Espinal: semillas para una generación arraigada en la naturaleza	AR	$4,702	41	8.7	0.44	0.3%	86
Youth Initiative for Community Empowerment (YICE) Building food security in Uganda's Nakivale Settlement	UG	$5,409	47	8.7	0.57	0.1%	122
Hutan Itu Indonesia Aura Mahakam: Indigenous youth voices for forest protection	ID	$5,832	47	8.1	0.73	33.7%	839
Bees and Trees Uganda Saving Bubungi, A Buzzing Adventure!	UG	$4,264	34	8.0	0.70	5.3%	69
Walking Water Walks of Resilience and Accountability: LA & Payahuunadü	US	$28,526	227	7.9	0.94	0.0%	881
Center for Nature Conservation and Development Women for Mangroves: Co-Management and Livelihoods in the Red River Estuary	VN	$4,092	31	7.6	0.75	0.0%	221
BlueMX Mangrove BlueMX Mangrove	MX	$5,706	42	7.4	0.74	13.4%	403
Tera Kuno Forest gardens and food sovereignty in the Amazon	BR	$5,340	38	7.1	0.89	1.4%	546
Stay Foundation Restoring soil and income in Uganda with smallholder farmers	UG	$4,970	34	6.9	0.70	3.3%	72
Rivershed Society of BC Restoring sc'e:ɬxʷəy'əm salmon corridor in Langley, BC	CA	$8,752	60	6.8	0.53	1.3%	216
Nirvana Carbon Foundation Carbon 1: Community Biochar in Rural Eastern India	IN	$12,878	83	6.5	0.42	0.0%	429
Masungi Georeserve Foundation Inc Solar power for forest rangers in Rizal, Philippines	PH	$27,151	158	5.8	0.55	0.7%	373
Grupo Jaragua Dominican mangrove revival with local stewards	DO	$6,074	34	5.5	0.85	8.6%	412
Ushindi Ventures Regenerative farming training center in Tanzania	TZ	$4,292	24	5.5	0.69	0.0%	186
Associação Quinta das Relvas From erosion to abundance: reforestation & land healing in Branca, Portugal	PT	$6,883	37	5.4	0.57	26.0%	291
Ocean Vision Legal Tohorā Guardianship: Advancing the Rights of Whales in Tonga	TO	$10,202	52	5.1	0.93	—	97
Department of Bioregion / Regenerate Cascadia Helping Urban Food Commons Navigate Change	CA	$11,984	60	5.0	0.26	0.0%	216
Nature Sacredness and Cultural Rights Initiative (NASACURI) I CARE: Indigenous Conservation, Agroecology, and Restoration of Ecosystems	UG	$6,909	34	4.9	0.77	4.2%	71
Pudding River Oak Savanna Partnership in Restoration (PROSPR) Pudding River riparian restoration at Honeymoon Farm, Oregon	US	$15,326	74	4.8	0.59	0.8%	310
Turtle Island Bioregional Congress Turtle Island Bioregional Congress	US	$16,712	80	4.8	0.82	2.4%	310
Oceanus Conservation Blue Roots Philippines:Regenerating Mangroves and Seagrass with Communities	PH	$11,090	50	4.5	0.58	3.6%	317
Institute of Livelihood Research & Training, Naturophilia Biochar for landscape restoration in the tribal village of Udaisa, MP,India	IN	$4,592	20	4.2	0.43	0.0%	164
Let's Go Compost Soil to Systems: Community Composting & Land Restoration Across America	US	$4,089	17	4.2	0.73	0.0%	127
Naturaleza Publica Triple Impact Nursery ― A Regeneration Hub for Patagonia, Chile	CL	$17,989	73	4.1	0.92	0.0%	127
Reef Check Malaysia Mantanani Reef Recovery: A Community-led Restoration	MY	$3,705	14	3.9	0.74	0.1%	1,272
Tennessee Environmental Council Donelson Creek Restoration Project	US	$4,259	16	3.7	0.38	0.8%	214
AGRO RANGERS AGRO RANGERS' Regenerative Agroforestry	IN	$9,231	29	3.1	0.51	0.0%	470
FutureFaith Faiths for Land: Restoring the Earth, Together	US	$4,417	13	2.9	0.26	0.0%	389
Unidos Social Innovation Center The Kura Kura Initiative: Refugee Resilience with Regenerative Agriculture	UG	$17,412	47	2.7	0.54	0.1%	122
CAPTE Restoring Tunisia's drylands with carob agroforestry	TN	$4,269	11	2.6	0.51	0.4%	242
Jiwa Garden (PT Cahaya Benih Dwipantara) Jiwa Garden: Composting Bali's Waste Crisis, One Community at a Time	ID	$14,981	37	2.5	0.33	0.3%	362
Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems Namma Nellu: restoring traditional rice in Tamil Nadu	IN	$7,288	18	2.4	0.29	0.7%	757
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society (BEDS) Restoring Mangrove: Protect Coastlines and Livelihoods in Bangladesh	BD	$9,077	22	2.4	0.77	0.0%	273
MonViso Institute Community Regeneration Lab in Ostana and the High Po River Valley	IT	$6,968	15	2.2	0.90	0.0%	263
The Dry Farming Institute Building drought-resilient farms across the Pacific Northwest	US	$27,752	61	2.2	0.92	0.0%	310
Costas Verdes Costas Verdes: Expanding Costa Rica's Coastal Forest Restoration	CR	$37,750	83	2.2	0.55	0.1%	614
Ground-Up Initiative (GUI) Kampung Kampus: Fighting Apathy Through Community-Led Regeneration	SG	$21,417	46	2.2	0.31	1.8%	553
SUGi SUGi: Greening Cities & Reimagining Urban Life	GB	$9,063	19	2.1	0.34	0.0%	357
Global Coralition Indonesia Reef Regeneration Hub	ID	$24,216	48	2.0	0.94	0.6%	690
Moy Hill Farm Moy Hill living classroom: from soil to sustainable farming careers	IE	$3,249	6	2.0	0.87	0.0%	153
Dunbar Spring Neighborhood Foresters PLANT THE RAIN - Water-Harvesting Native Food Forest Fund Raiser	US	$42,659	79	1.8	0.26	0.0%	348
Bay Islands Conservation Association Restoring Coastal Marine Habitats in the Bay Islands National Marine Park	HN	$4,214	8	1.8	0.96	0.7%	226
Water Protector Legal Collective Water is Life: #NoDAPL Never Ended	US	$5,140	9	1.8	0.94	0.0%	85
Matagal - Associação para Natureza e Cultura Rebuilding Vale de Água's native tree nursery	PT	$6,264	11	1.7	0.38	8.8%	371
Sacred Contract The San Luis Valley Mountain That Owns Itself	US	$8,639	15	1.7	0.57	0.0%	142
Instituto Chaikuni Living Chacras: Regenerating Land and Learning in the Peruvian Amazon	PE	$19,293	30	1.6	0.80	3.0%	481
SESDO (Social & Environmental Sustainable Development Org.) Mangroves4Life: Community-Led Mangrove Restoration in the Sundarbans	BD	$13,860	22	1.6	0.63	0.0%	273
Institut de la Ferme du Bec Hellouin Biodiversité et santé des cultures : comprendre, partager, agir.	FR	$9,726	15	1.6	0.68	1.0%	264
Forêt & Naturalité Growing Ecological Awareness Through Forest Education	BE	$6,582	10	1.6	0.45	0.9%	208
Appalachian Rekindling Project Bringing bison home to Roxana, Kentucky	US	$6,766	10	1.5	0.87	0.6%	139
Eternal Forest / Associação Floresta Eterna From Seed to Eternal Forest Sanctuary in Faia Brava	PT	$5,979	9	1.5	0.92	0.0%	121
Guayaba Colectivo From Wetlands to Bodies: A Community-Based Lab for Ecological Restoration	CO	$3,254	5	1.5	0.94	3.0%	182
Foundation for a Sustainable Future DBA LivingFuture Foundation Beaver Cohabitation + Human Foodways: Growing plants to feed everyone.	US	$6,260	6	1.0	0.91	0.1%	90
Meli Bees Network Indigenous agroforestry in Alto Solimões, Amazonas	BR	$6,708	7	1.0	0.73	5.2%	546
The land is ours Cooperative - Farkha Farkha agricultural revival: protecting crops, feeding families	PS	$25,026	24	0.9	0.62	0.1%	240
Sand Dams Worldwide Restoring drylands with sand dams and climate-smart farming	KE	$8,724	8	0.9	0.78	0.0%	137
Nature and People as One (NaPO) NaPO Conservation Cup: youth-led dryland restoration in northern Kenya	KE	$4,060	4	0.9	0.71	0.0%	125
Dryland Solutions NUGAAL VALLEY DRYLANDS RESTORATION -SOMALIA	SO	$4,261	4	0.9	0.95	0.0%	176
Alianza Wichi Alianza Wichí: Scaling the Gran Chaco Regenerative Network	AR	$5,234	5	0.9	0.77	0.9%	148
La Tierra del Jaguar Agave Agroforestry and Jaguar Coexistence in Sonora	MX	$23,447	20	0.8	0.90	0.0%	415
Drylands Agroecology Research Foundation Regenerating drylands in Colorado: soil and water restoration	US	$7,114	6	0.8	0.81	2.1%	142
Ama Earthworks Restoring Western North Carolina's post-Helene streams	US	$21,454	15	0.7	0.65	1.8%	468
Hawthorne Valley Association Hawthorne Valley biodiversity trail expansion	US	$14,988	10	0.6	0.65	0.1%	389
Ecological Balance Mbum Plateau Landscape Restoration Project	CM	$4,409	3	0.6	0.96	0.1%	85
voedselpark amsterdam Regenerating Amsterdam's last farmland	NL	$25,497	15	0.6	0.33	0.0%	221
Maasai Wilderness Conservation Women-led grass seed restoration in Kenya	KE	$13,681	7	0.5	0.93	0.0%	171
Trees for Life Restoring Scotland's Caledonian Forest	GB	$29,295	13	0.4	0.89	1.5%	247
Tamera Peace Research and Education Center Vale da Gema Headwaters: Resilience via community, land care, and training	PT	$26,326	10	0.4	0.84	5.1%	315
Regen Waves NGO Arrábida bioregion: Scaling Agroecosystems Network Model	PT	$30,071	11	0.4	0.39	2.1%	341
FEY COMMONS Regen House: rooted practice in Burgundy	FR	$21,100	7	0.3	0.62	1.5%	170
Farming on Crutches Farming on Crutches: War Amputees Growing Sierra Leone's Food Future	SL	$22,483	8	0.3	0.50	0.1%	285
Wild Survivors Community-Led Coexistence Corridors	TZ	$10,005	3	0.3	0.92	10.1%	101
PurposeFlow Living Community-led water and reforestation systems for Portugal's Drylands	PT	$21,670	7	0.3	0.70	1.2%	259
FreeTheBees Wild Bee Forests Switzerland	CH	$14,511	4	0.3	0.87	0.3%	54
Wise Ancestors Indigenous-Led Tree Planting & Sequencing for Food Security in Congo Basin	CD	$8,092	2	0.3	0.99	3.8%	129
fromtheroots From eroded earth to healing justice sanctuary in Sultan Hamud	KE	$29,221	8	0.3	0.90	0.0%	171
The Collective Foundation Sofia's rivers: from sewage channels to community spaces	BG	$8,653	2	0.2	0.27	0.0%	60
Home Planet Fund Micro-forests and farmland restoration in Afghanistan and Tajikistan	TJ	$5,746	1	0.2	0.98	0.0%	55
People of the Forest Project Yawanawa: Indigenous-Led Food Sovereignty & Forest Restoration	BR	$36,742	4	0.1	0.82	1.7%	186
Grown in Haiti Growing food security in Haiti's southern mountains	HT	$8,189	0	0.0	0.81	0.0%	45
Cabarete Sostenible Reforesting La Loma: ancestral agroforestry in Cabarete	DO	$15,256	—	—	—	0.0%	—
Love The Oceans Conservation Rebuilding Mozambique's ocean: Jangamo community conservation	MZ	$27,495	—	—	0.74	0.0%	—
Rifai Sicilia Mediterranean Bioregional Commons Development	IT	$6,574	—	—	0.74	0.0%	—

197 projects shown. Funding = crowdfund + estimated quadratic match. Blank cells mean no data (one ocean-based project has no terrestrial rasters; three sites could not be geocoded to a region).

Methods & caveats

Where every number comes from

If a claim on this page can't be traced to a row below, it shouldn't be trusted — and we'd like to hear about it.

1. Funding
Per-project totals and donor counts from Ma Earth's public project pages (donationSummary), July 2026 close. Matching figures are page-embedded estimates, not final disbursements. 4 of 201 funded projects (~$8k) had renamed pages and are missing.
2. Self-reported claims
Extracted from project descriptions by 8 parallel LLM agents with a published prompt; only stated numbers, acres converted to hectares, lower bounds of ranges, achieved/planned basis flagged. Spot-checked, not exhaustively verified.
3. GBIF density
api.gbif.org occurrence counts in a 0.25° cell per site. Measures sampling effort, not biodiversity — its correct use is the gap.
4. BII
Impact Observatory Biodiversity Intactness (io-biodiversity, Microsoft Planetary Computer), 100 m, 2020, sampled at the site point. Compare within portfolio; products differ in baseline.
5. Forest cover & loss
Hansen Global Forest Change 2024 v1.12, ~10 km window per site: mean tree cover 2000, share of cells with loss 2001–24 and 2020–24. Includes plantation harvest.
6. Threatened species & habitat
Map of Life: species lists per admin-1 region (Red List categories), per-species habitat preferences, elevation limits, and global habitat areas (sps_area_km2). Non-commercial research use.
7. STAR-lite
Formula from Mair et al. 2021 (Nature Ecology & Evolution) with MoL habitat areas replacing IUCN Area-of-Habitat. Presence = range bounds + elevation match. Full-abatement ceiling; no threat-apportioning. Not comparable to the licensed IUCN STAR layer.
8. Reproducibility
Every raw response, intermediate file, script, and the extraction prompt live in the maearth-analysis dataset; this page renders a static export of it and recomputes STAR-lite client-side.