Across Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, pastoralist communities are stewarding vast rangelands while restoring degraded ecosystems, protecting water sources, and strengthening land rights.

Their work includes rotational and holistic grazing, community-led rangeland management, restoration of degraded grasslands, and protection of seasonal water sources. These practices are helping restore ecosystems and increase soil carbon while supporting the livelihoods and cultural traditions of pastoralist communities.

The Tongass is the largest remaining intact temperate rainforest on Earth and holds an extraordinary amount of carbon. Home Planet Fund partners are working alongside communities to protect this ecosystem through Indigenous forest management, salmon stream restoration, wetland and peatland conservation, and community-led economic development.

In 2025, HPF also supported the first-ever $450,000 distribution through the Seacoast Trust, helping address the gap between federal forest management funding and the needs of local communities.

Across Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu, HPF partners are protecting coastal and ocean ecosystems while supporting communities whose livelihoods depend on them.

Community-led mangrove restoration, coral reef rehabilitation, and sustainable fishing practices are helping protect coastlines and biodiversity. Partner communities have seen deforestation rates decline by 20–50% in some areas.

In Afghanistan and Tajikistan, farmers and local communities are restoring fragile mountain landscapes that are critical to water security across Asia. Through regenerative agriculture, watershed restoration, agroforestry, micro-forests, and other locally led practices, communities are improving soil health, restoring biodiversity, and strengthening food security.

These landscapes are part of the wider Hindu Kush Himalayan region, often called the Third Pole, whose glaciers and snowmelt support water security for more than two billion people across Asia.

Across vastly different landscapes, the approach remains the same: trust Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities to lead, and provide the resources they need to continue the work they already know works.

From rangeland restoration and forest stewardship to mangrove rehabilitation and regenerative agriculture, HPF partners are demonstrating that climate solutions can protect ecosystems while strengthening livelihoods, culture, and community well-being.

The challenge isn’t a lack of solutions. It’s a lack of investment in the solutions that already exist.

Continue Investing in Indigenous-Led Solutions

With continued support, Home Planet Fund can help bring these proven approaches to greater scale, supporting the communities who have been stewarding these lands and waters for generations.