…a world in which 30% of the Earth‘s land and water is actually under protection by the year 2030.
 
Protecting biodiversity is essential to mitigating the impacts of climate change, conserving species, and ensuring healthy ecosystems that benefit people and wildlife. That is why funding for conservation must increase rapidly to ensure that the remaining forests, landscapes and species can thrive. Africa is home to 25% of the world's remaining biodiversity but has access to only a small fraction of global biodiversity conservation funding. To tackle this challenge, commitment must come from the public, philanthropic and private sectors. We need to improve our understanding of the value of nature, and we need new mechanisms to make investing in conservation more efficient. That is why we at African Parks are developing a transformative results-based funding mechanism by introducing Verified Nature Units (VNUs). Our goal is for VNUs to become valuable, investible assets that can be used to fund conservation. This, we hope, will shape the future of conservation finance.

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