Mission
Protect 25,000 acres of prairie grasslands
Impact
Capture and store up to 5 million metric tonnes of CO2e
United nations goals
About the project
Western U.S. prairie grasslands evoke the old wild west, and are home to a wide variety of native wildlife including the swift fox, ferruginous hawk, burrowing owl, and mountain plover. They also can store up to 200 metric tonnes of CO2e per acre. Operated by the Southern Plains Land Trust, this 25,000 acre network of grasslands is both a carbon storage preserve, and one of the largest wildlife refuges of its kind in the southern Great Plains. Converting this land for crops, cattle or housing would not only threaten a biodiversity hotspot - it could release up to 3.2+ million metric tonnes of CO2e back into the atmosphere. We help Southern Plains Land Trust keep this grassland prairie unchanged, so it continues capturing and storing CO2e, and enabling local flora and fauna to thrive.
Project Documentation