Coastal resilience and ocean regeneration in Oceania and South Pacific
We are an Indigenous woman-led non-profit, who funds Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities living in frontline regions with the biggest potential to address the polycrisis, including remote communities, fragile ecosystems, and areas in conflict. We work in places that others can’t or won’t. Home Planet Fund leverages the power of nature and the stewardship role of Indigenous People and Local Communities. We support a focus on the intersectionality of people and planet, rebuilding local systems, and centering the knowledge of and implementation through Indigenous People and Local Communities. A portion of this work is now called Nature-Based Solutions and Regenerative Agriculture. HPF gives directly to communities to lead and implement projects. Our approach not only recognizes their personal knowledge, institutional memory and experience, but also how to translate and apply regenerative principles in their unique intersectional context of people, culture, geography and history.
Project story
Our partners are providing and increasing terrestrial and land biodiversity protection and rehabilitation, and ocean stewardship on a vast scale. Restoring mangrove forests is protecting coastlines and sequestering carbon, coral reef restoration and conservation, and sustainable fishing practices are showing dramatic results. Practicing sustainable fishing, forest conservation through community stewardship, intergenerational ecological knowledge transfer, and food sovereignty through agroforestry are all contributing to widespread climate resiliency and adaptation.
Already, mangrove forests across the region are sequestering 6–8 tons CO₂ per hectare annually, which is 3–5 times more carbon stored than terrestrial forests. In addition to a 20–50 percent reduction in deforestation rates, Home Planet Fund’s partners now steward a combined land mass of 35,543 square kilometers, and more than 1 million square kilometers of ocean. The economic and human health component in Oceania looks like intergenerational knowledge sharing, food sovereignty, and community investment vehicles.
This work is in Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and French Polynesia.
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Coastal resilience and ocean regeneration in Oceania and South Pacific
We are an Indigenous woman-led non-profit, who funds Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities living in frontline regions with the biggest potential to address the polycrisis, including remote communities, fragile ecosystems, and areas in conflict. We work in places that others can’t or won’t. Home Planet Fund leverages the power of nature and the stewardship role of Indigenous People and Local Communities. We support a focus on the intersectionality of people and planet, rebuilding local systems, and centering the knowledge of and implementation through Indigenous People and Local Communities. A portion of this work is now called Nature-Based Solutions and Regenerative Agriculture. HPF gives directly to communities to lead and implement projects. Our approach not only recognizes their personal knowledge, institutional memory and experience, but also how to translate and apply regenerative principles in their unique intersectional context of people, culture, geography and history.
Project story
Our partners are providing and increasing terrestrial and land biodiversity protection and rehabilitation, and ocean stewardship on a vast scale. Restoring mangrove forests is protecting coastlines and sequestering carbon, coral reef restoration and conservation, and sustainable fishing practices are showing dramatic results. Practicing sustainable fishing, forest conservation through community stewardship, intergenerational ecological knowledge transfer, and food sovereignty through agroforestry are all contributing to widespread climate resiliency and adaptation.
Already, mangrove forests across the region are sequestering 6–8 tons CO₂ per hectare annually, which is 3–5 times more carbon stored than terrestrial forests. In addition to a 20–50 percent reduction in deforestation rates, Home Planet Fund’s partners now steward a combined land mass of 35,543 square kilometers, and more than 1 million square kilometers of ocean. The economic and human health component in Oceania looks like intergenerational knowledge sharing, food sovereignty, and community investment vehicles.
This work is in Fiji, Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu, and French Polynesia.
Project updates
Team
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French Polynesia