The generous gift from the Arcadia Fund will support the third phase of the Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme, taking the Arcadia Fund’s total support of the programme to over $138 million. The new funding will allow the Programme to expand its support to partners across Europe to deliver ambitious, inspiring, large-scale restoration projects.
Seas regulate the Earth’s climate, generate oxygen, and provide livelihoods and food for hundreds of millions of people. But Europe’s seas are suffering from pollution, biodiversity loss, seabed damage, overfishing, underwater noise, ocean warming, acidification, and spread of invasive species.
It’s especially exciting that we will now be able to fund more projects focused on Europe’s seas, where many habitats are in poor condition and species are in decline. Experience shows that with the right interventions, marine ecosystems can recover.”
Governments around the world have committed to restoring ecosystems and biodiversity. This new funding provides provide a much-needed boost for the delivery of targets set by the Global Biodiversity Framework and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
As we address the challenges posed by environmental degradation, this funding offers support to restore Europe’s lands and seas and build towards a more resilient future.
