Conservation Finance

Achieving Target 3 requires sufficient funding and sustainable finance to ensure protected areas and OECMs are established and managed in ways to maintain biodiversity in the long term, at both the site and systems level.

The following fact sheets, developed by the IUCN WCPA Sustainable Finance Specialist Group, provide examples of different options being used to fund protected areas and OECMs in across the world:

Collaborative management partnerships (CMPs)

Protected and Conserved Areas (PCA) entrance fees

Debt Conversions

Conservation Trust Funds

Tourism concessions