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
Using Fire to Restore a Tallgrass Prairie in Middlesex County, ON
ALUS Middlesex Coordinator, Peter Moddle, on why prescribed burns are an important tool for maintaining tallgrass prairie ecosystems. In September, ALUS Middlesex coordinated a prescribed burn on a tallgrass prairie, with support from the Grassland Stewardship...
Tima Bansal on How Nature-Based Solutions are Taking Businesses Beyond Net Zero
An interview with Tima Bansal as part of a series unraveling how investment in nature-based solutions delivers positive environmental, social and economic impacts, creating a better future for everyone.Tima Bansal is a Professor of Strategy at Western University’s...
ALUS and the Weston Family Foundation present the 2022 Weston Family Ecosystem Research Award
Congratulations to Dr. John Fryxell, Professor, Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph, for receiving the 2022 Weston Family Ecosystem Research Award. The 2022 Weston Family Ecosystem Research Award, worth $10,000, is presented to Dr. John...