Funding grassland conservation in Transylvania using Voluntary Biodiversity Credit

Grassland

Country

Romania

Region

Eastern Europe

Approach

Markets and sales

Funding

Private, Public, Mixed funding

This pioneering Romanian project in Transylvania is developing a voluntary biodiversity credit market to fund grassland conservation. The initiative generates and sells biodiversity credits to private companies, creating a sustainable funding model that rewards small-scale farmers for maintaining their high-nature-value, low-intensity farming practices.