We see a world where climate re-balancing and ecological restoration go hand-in-hand.
Thriving ecosystems can provide up to 37 percent of the emission reductions needed by 2030 to keep global temperature increases under 2°C*.
SkyHarvest identifies and empowers initiatives that transform degraded land into living ecosystems of accelerated carbon drawdown.
*PNAS https://www.pnas.org/content/114/44/11645
Bowie, Arizona, USA
Greening the Arizona desert.
Located at the foot of the Chiricahua Mountains near the USA/Mexico border, this privately owned property has a fragile desert ecosystem with historically notable biodiversity that has been damaged by human activity. Funding in place for 4,500 trees which will be planted from locally sourced seed. A team of ecologists and implementers will begin reshaping the land for water catchments in 2022 which will support widespread planting of diverse pioneer plants.
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The earth loses 81,238 acres (32,876 hectares) of land per day to desertification on average*. Ecological restoration reverses this trend.
*United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification
https://www.unccd.int/actions/united-nations-decade-deserts-2010-2020-and-fight-against-desertification
