Where
Agriculture
& Nature
Meet
OUR MISSION
ALUS engages farmers and ranchers in creating nature-based solutions on their land to build climate resilience and enhance biodiversity for the benefit of communities and future generations.
Discover the only organization in North America delivering a turnkey agriculture-based ecosystem services program.
Find tailor-made solutions to help your business, organization or foundation meet its nature and climate targets.
Discover where ALUS communities are working to create solutions to local and global environmental challenges.
Investing in People
As the largest single group of landowners in North America, agricultural producers are in a unique position to provide solutions to some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time. Farmers and ranchers have the land, skills and knowledge to help develop and implement nature-based solutions that help reverse biodiversity loss, improve water quality and quantity, and reduce the impacts of climate change.
Through its farmer-led, turnkey program, ALUS is helping communities across North America engage farmers and ranchers in implementing regionally appropriate solutions to global environmental problems.
Delivering real results
ALUS communities support farmers and ranchers in building new acres of nature on marginal lands to enhance biodiversity, create habitat for wildlife and species at risk, improve water quality and quantity, reduce the risk of drought and flood, sequester and store carbon, and build community climate resilience. Every new acre of nature-based projects, like grasslands, tree and shrub plantings, and wetland and riparian restoration, delivers a suite of ecosystem services that benefit people and communities.
Discover how your business, organization or foundation can invest in the people who know how to care for the land best and deliver nature-based solutions that produce environmental, social and economic value.
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Latest News
Building Back Biodiversity: Solutions from the Sidelines
ALUS farmers and ranchers have the land and know-how to change the landscape for the benefit of all Canadians. Now’s the time to invest in them. There’s a 37-million-acre opportunity to restore and enhance biodiversity in Canada. This is the amount of marginal or...
The ALUS Before and After Photo Contest Showcases Nature-Based Solutions!
ALUS coordinators showcase nature-based solutions at different points in a project’s lifecycle. In 2021, ALUS introduced the Before and After Photo Contest with the aim of encouraging ALUS communities to demonstrate the magnitude of their ecosystem projects....
ALUS Receives $2M for Farmer-led Wetland Projects from the Government of Ontario
Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks supports wetland enhancement and creation in ALUS communities throughout the province A new ALUS wetland project under construction by Bert, Dave and Bill Robson Jr., ALUS Lambton participants. Toronto,...
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