This article has been submitted as part of the Natural Capital Coalition‘s series of blogs on natural capital by PJ Marshall, co-founder and executive director of Restore the Earth Foundation. In July, global business leaders welcomed the launch of...
Travel in Pointe aux Chenes, a 35,000-acre swampy marshland southwest of New Orleans, is difficult. The 680 members of the Pointe-au-Chien Tribe who call it home historically used canoes carved from native bald cypress trees – a species often compared in size and...
New Haven, CT – June 14, 2016. The United States Business Council for Sustainable Development (US BCSD) and the Restore the Earth Foundation announced their Strategic Alliance for landscape-scale restoration and a $1 million Collaborative Fund today at the US...
A new private-public fund aims to bring back North America’s Amazon. The Mississippi River Basin—which generates $200 billion in economic value annually from commerce and recreation—is central to commerce and a pillar in the U.S. economy. Individuals and...
We break ground on the restoration of North America’s Amazon in fall 2016. The first project will restore 4,000 acres of freshwater-forested wetland in the Pointe-aux-Chenes Bald Cypress Forest Wetland, Louisiana. The selection of this particular site is deeply...