Ecological Balance Cameroon is an apolitical, non-religious, and non-profit organization dedicated to empowering communities to protect and preserve nature. The organization works in Cameroon to restore degraded lands, protect watersheds and promote sustainable land use through community-led forest restoration, regenerative agriculture and nature-based enterprises. Their mission is to foster a harmonious relationship between people and the environment by promoting sustainable practices that support both ecological integrity and local livelihoods, with work focused on clean energy, carbon removal, regenerative agriculture, and climate change resilience.
SUGi is a global living network creating biodiverse SUGi Pocket Forests in the cities and communities most affected by climate change. Based on the proven Miyawaki Method, each ultra-dense, native-species forest is co-designed, planted, and stewarded by a SUGi Forest Maker rooted in their own community. Across 28 countries, 65 cities, and almost 270 SUGi Pocket Forests, we work with schools, councils, Tribal Nations, and grassroots organisations to restore biodiversity, cool urban heat, and reconnect people with nature.
Project story
Ecological Balance Cameroon was born from a powerful truth: conservation fails when communities are left behind.
Our founder grew up in rural Cameroon and returned home to a heartbreaking reality—thriving forests were disappearing, replaced by deforestation, unsustainable farming, and devastating bushfires. She realized that asking struggling families to protect nature while facing poverty was asking the impossible. Communities needed to see conservation as their path forward, not an obstacle to survival.
In the Mbum Plateau landscape, the crisis is urgent. Critical springs are drying up, soil fertility is plummeting, and climate change intensifies the pressure on vulnerable communities. Yet this region harbors remarkable biodiversity—rare bird species and pollinators essential to both ecosystems and local food systems.
Our solution is simple but transformative: empower communities to become stewards of their own land.
We combine environmental education, native tree restoration, watershed protection, and regenerative agriculture with income-generating nature-based enterprises. When communities directly benefit from healthy ecosystems, conservation stops being a burden and becomes an opportunity—one they own, control, and sustain long after we're gone.
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Mbum Plateau Landscape Restoration Project
Ecological Balance Cameroon is an apolitical, non-religious, and non-profit organization dedicated to empowering communities to protect and preserve nature. The organization works in Cameroon to restore degraded lands, protect watersheds and promote sustainable land use through community-led forest restoration, regenerative agriculture and nature-based enterprises. Their mission is to foster a harmonious relationship between people and the environment by promoting sustainable practices that support both ecological integrity and local livelihoods, with work focused on clean energy, carbon removal, regenerative agriculture, and climate change resilience.
SUGi is a global living network creating biodiverse SUGi Pocket Forests in the cities and communities most affected by climate change. Based on the proven Miyawaki Method, each ultra-dense, native-species forest is co-designed, planted, and stewarded by a SUGi Forest Maker rooted in their own community. Across 28 countries, 65 cities, and almost 270 SUGi Pocket Forests, we work with schools, councils, Tribal Nations, and grassroots organisations to restore biodiversity, cool urban heat, and reconnect people with nature.
Project story
Ecological Balance Cameroon was born from a powerful truth: conservation fails when communities are left behind.
Our founder grew up in rural Cameroon and returned home to a heartbreaking reality—thriving forests were disappearing, replaced by deforestation, unsustainable farming, and devastating bushfires. She realized that asking struggling families to protect nature while facing poverty was asking the impossible. Communities needed to see conservation as their path forward, not an obstacle to survival.
In the Mbum Plateau landscape, the crisis is urgent. Critical springs are drying up, soil fertility is plummeting, and climate change intensifies the pressure on vulnerable communities. Yet this region harbors remarkable biodiversity—rare bird species and pollinators essential to both ecosystems and local food systems.
Our solution is simple but transformative: empower communities to become stewards of their own land.
We combine environmental education, native tree restoration, watershed protection, and regenerative agriculture with income-generating nature-based enterprises. When communities directly benefit from healthy ecosystems, conservation stops being a burden and becomes an opportunity—one they own, control, and sustain long after we're gone.
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Location
Cameroon
Round 3
Jul 1-21, 2026
Supporting community-led nature projects around the world.
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