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The Nature Conservancy’s Blue Bonds for Conservation model helps governments unlock funding for conservation—and could benefit millions of people in coastal regions. Demonstrated by successful projects in Barbados, Belize and the Seychelles. The Blue Bonds strategy combines conservation finance with TNC’s science and marine planning expertise to help governments unlock funds at a scale that delivers against their conservation goals while also supporting the well-being of their communities and economies. The strategy is aligned with global goals to protect 30% of the world’s ocean, lands and freshwater by 2030.

This Nature Conservancy compendium offers different tools to support coastal resilience planning including interactive tutorials and success stories through case studies.

This Nature Conservancy manual provides a set of criteria to ecotourism planners and managers at conservation NGOs to facilitate decisions with respect to eco-tourism management and development.

This report expands the socioeconomic benefit analysis of coral reefs and defines the role of reef adjacent tourism activities in tourism visits and expenditure.

This report synthesizes assessment findings and offers considerations and recommendations on next steps to determine when parametric insurance could provide a new source of funds to contribute to the repair of coral reefs in Florida and Hawai‘i.

This report, published by The Nature Conservancy, empirically analyzes the link between biodiversity conservation initiatives and poverty reduction.

The findings here provide a positive perspective as to the feasibility of developing and deploying a mangrove insurance product in the Caribbean region. These results, however, are only preliminary.

This Solimar International toolkit includes two different publications developed with support of USAID aimed at linking tourism and conservation in a sustainable way including six conservation models that link sustainable tourism, biodiversity conservation, and community development and a framework for responding rapidly to crises originating for tourism and visitation.