Luís, Author at Nature Returns

Nature Returns in the UNEP’s Playbook on Private Funding

UNEP-WCMC just produced the ‘Restoration Project Developers’ Playbook on Private Finance (Europe)’ to bring information on how restoration projects can get access to private funding. Nature Returns is presented as one of the case studies for supporting restoration project developers to cover funding gaps.

A new Monitoring Plan for assessing Nature Returns’ results

As a learning project, a monitoring plan is needed to guide the systematic collection and analysis of data to evaluate the Nature Returns project’s outcomes. We have just published the Monitoring Manual that will allow us to measure impact of Nature Returns’ approach and to assess how valid and useful this approach can be for the management of protected areas.

Entrepreneurs invited to submit business proposals for the Shar Mountain National Park

Entrepreneurs are invited to join the Call to Increase Capacity in Shar Mountain National Park. The Park and Nature Returns are calling for leaders who want to make a difference and who are passionate about nature conservation; that have creative and fresh ideas that can contribute to the sustainability of Shar Mountain National Park.

Call for Entrepreneurs for the Island of Pico, Azores

The Pico Island Nature Park and Nature Returns organized on March 27-28 meetings with the community of entrepreneurs of the island and the Pico Technical School to promote the call for entrepreneurs. The call is out until the end of April and we aim to get business proposals that may potentially reverse the threats that are listed in the pilot management plan of the Nature Park.

The Pico Island Nature Park has a new pilot Management Plan

The Government of the Azores and Nature Returns just published the pilot Management Plan for the Pico Island Nature Park, that allowed describing the priority natural values to be managed, analyzing and ranking the threats and pressures that can be reverted by businesses and defining the main activities to be held until 2030,

Nature Returns attended the CCNet Global Rally 2025

Nature Returns has just attended the first joint CCNet and CMP Global Rally in Valdivia, Chile, where we presented the project to our peers who are using the Conservation Standards. During the Marketplace space of the Rally, we had a booth where we could promote the project, its approach and results obtained thus far, and the project was very well received by the participants there.