Help solve the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change
Invest in landscape-level change that generates tangible results for the environment, people and communities.
300%
Increase in native pollinator abundance and 200% in diversity
50-100%
Reduction in nutrients flowing into waterways
0.11-0.76
Tonnes CO2e for grasslands per acre per year
50%
Increase in biodiversity and native species
1,760+
Farmer and rancher participants and 300+ local community leaders
400+
Active local community partnerships across 39 communities
Achieve your nature and climate goals
with solutions that create an impact
Whether you’re trying to reach net zero, improve water quality or biodiversity, reduce the impacts of climate change, invest in ground breaking research, or create community and social climate resilience, ALUS can tailor-fit a solution to your objectives, desired outcomes and budget.
Sponsorship Opportunities
Create positive enviro-economic and social change. Help build organizational capacity, support important quantification research or scale program delivery across North America.
New Acre Nature Investments
Invest in nature-based projects that produce tangible, measurable results. Add new acres of nature to the landscape that sequester carbon, improve water quality, enhance biodiversity and build climate resilience.
Community Donations
Support local communities in helping farmers and ranchers implement nature-based solutions that create valuable ecosystem services and solve local environmental problems.
Trusted by businesses and organizations across North America
Jill Weaver
Director of Partnerships
ALUS Nature & Climate Solutions
Results you can see and trust
Managed by ALUS’ local community partners and the people who know their land best, projects funded by New Acre™ Nature Investments deliver credible and reliable acre-based outcomes you can trust.
Invest in Communities
ALUS is supporting communities across North America in addressing local environmental problems. We can help you strategically invest in the regions that matter to you most.
ALUS is currently active in six Canadian provinces and one American state and is expanding across North America. If we’re not active in the community you’d like to reach, connect with us. We’re interested in working with global partners to expand program delivery across North America.
Alberta
328
Participants
17,478
Acres
Saskatchewan
70
Participants
5,691
Acres
Manitoba
52
Participants
3,005
Acres
Ontario
516
Participants
4,453
Acres
Quebec
83
Participants
165
Acres
Prince Edward Island
54
Participants
1,342
Acres
Iowa
Launched 2023
Meet ALUS Farmers & Ranchers
Wetlands on Working Lands for Climate Resilience
Farmers have been on the frontlines of the climate crisis, facing drought conditions in the west and flooding in the east. But many have discovered that creating wetlands on working lands can build resilience to extreme weather events, while also producing several...
Iowa farmer helps launch the first ALUS community in the United States to bring diversity—and people—back to the land
Iowan Seth Watkins has a dream to bring biodiversity back to Southwest Iowa and build a brighter, more vibrant rural community. ALUS is one of the ways he wants to achieve it.Seth Watkins has been trying to make his farm smaller. He’s reduced his Iowa acreage from...
Ron Toonders, Switchgrass for Grassroots Resilience
Farmers like Ron Toonders are building resilient practices that benefit nature and the agricultural landscape in Ontario This photo depicts the root system of switchgrass, Panicum virgatum. (Grown at The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas) In the hot summer months,...
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On-farm climate resilience you can see and touch
Definity Insurance tours ALUS farms in Ontario to learn how farmers are using nature-based climate solutions to protect their operations from severe weather.Definity Financial Corporation is committed to building community resilience. As the parent company to...
Advancing Canada’s 2030 Nature Strategy with Farmer-delivered Solutions
Restoring marginal or unproductive agricultural land to new acres of nature can help achieve Canada's 2030 Nature Strategy. Recognizing that nature conservation happens on agricultural lands is the first step toward making these acres count.ALUS applauds the federal...
ALUS Delivers Carbon Sequestration and Environmental Benefits for Bruce Power through Nature-based Projects
Bruce Power’s second annual New Acre™ Nature Investments report foregrounds carbon sequestration outcomes and environmental benefits produced by agricultural nature-based projects delivered by ALUS farmers in Bruce and Grey Counties. BRUCE and GREY COUNTY / TORONTO,...
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