Blue Forest is a nonprofit conservation finance organization that brings people, finance, and science together to restore and protect forests, watersheds, ecosystems, and communities. The organization builds partnerships with investors, land managers, nonprofits, Native Nations, private companies, and the public sector to catalyze the funds and partners needed to make restoration projects happen. Blue Forest frees up capital to start work as quickly as possible and measures, quantifies, and evaluates results. Their mission is to accelerate ecological restoration through conservation finance, enabling climate resilience for ecosystems and communities.
Why it matters: Landscape restoration needs to happen now, not in a decade—and the gap between urgent need and available funding has stalled critical projects that would protect forests, watersheds, and communities from climate impacts. By pioneering conservation finance mechanisms that align investor interests with ecological outcomes, Blue Forest creates pathways for capital to flow toward restoration at the pace the crisis demands. The partnerships among investors, land managers, Native Nations, and the public sector demonstrate that accelerating restoration requires uniting constituencies that don’t typically work together, united by a shared interest in resilient landscapes.
