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Round 3 moved over $2M USD to 201 grassroots nature projects. We couldn’t have done it without you.

Forests protected, seeds saved, communities strengthened, all because of a shared vision for community-led regeneration.

Now we're turning toward Round 4, and before we dream up what's next, we want to hear from you.

What worked. What didn't. What surprised you. What you wish had been different. Your experience with this round shapes the one to come.

Comment SURVEY below and we'll send you the link. Five minutes of your time helps us build something better, together.

🌱 #MaEarthRound3 #CommunityLedRegeneration #CollectiveFunding #Feedback #LetsGrow by @maearthstudio

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Thank you for supporting community-led regeneration.

Over $2 million USD raised for 201 grassroots nature projects, from 11,700+ people in 100+ countries.

What's more important, beyond the numbers: land stewards finding one another across continents, an outpouring of solidarity, and proof of what's possible when we act with life at the center.

Amidst heat waves and wildfires, thousands of everyday citizens showed up to support their ecosystems and communities. Not waiting for someone else to do it. Rolling up their sleeves and taking action.

Follow the projects at maearth.com to see the impact unfold.
Thank you for being part of this. 🌱

#MaEarthRound3 #Regeneration #CommunityLedRegeneration by @maearthstudio

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Curious about regenerative hospitality? We’re exploring the art and logistics of hosting visitors on your land with agroforestry and eco-hospitality expert Scott Gallant of Porvenir Design.

As small, community-led regenerative initiatives take root around the world, many are learning to welcome visitors curious about their land and way of life. What if hospitality could nourish ecosystems instead of extracting from them?

We’ll cover the fundamentals of welcoming visitors to a regenerative land project — activities and ideas for becoming a hub for knowledge exchange. We’ll also get into the ethical tensions in tourism: how to walk gently in new landscapes and leave them better than we found them.

Come curious about:

🛖 Hospitality principles that shift the visitor from tourist to nourishing presence

🛖 Case studies from regenerative hospitality projects

🛖 Revenue models for starting a land-based hospitality venture

Join us for a presentation and conversation on how farm-based hospitality can catalyze regenerative economies and bioregional abundance.

Comment FLOURISH and we’ll DM you the link to register. by @maearthstudio

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Wild creatures once roamed freely across the Earth. A jaguar roams hundreds of miles. Elephants follow paths their ancestors walked for generations. Yet roads, fences, and agricultural enclosures have carved the wild into islands too small for many species to survive.

The numbers tell the story: connected habitats retain up to 14% more species than isolated ones, yet fragmentation is accelerating worldwide. Community-led organizations are stitching these landscapes back together, creating corridors for wildlife.

In the Philippines, Masungi Georeserve equips local rangers who guard a recovering reserve in Rizal. @masungigeoreserve

Along Brazil’s Araguaia River, the Black Jaguar Foundation expands a vast biodiversity corridor. @blackjaguarfoundation

In Kenya, the Mount Kenya Trust stewards an ancient elephant corridor. @mountkenyatrust

In the Peruvian Amazon, the Amazon Rainforest Conservancy secures a critical wildlife passage. @amazonrainforestconservancy

Nature was never a collection of parts. It is a living web, and it heals when we let it reconnect.

Learn more about community-led conservation corridors and support these projects in Ma Earth’s Funding Round. Every donation counts in our matching campaign before July 21.

Comment CORRIDOR and we’ll DM you links to these project profiles.

#maearthround3 #wildlifecorridors #rewilding #regeneration by @maearthstudio

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Last chance!
Ma Earth’s Funding Round 3 closes on July 21 at 11:59pm AoE.

Every donation is matched by a $1 Million USD pool.

Support community-led regeneration at maearth.com

#regeneration #maearthround3 by @maearthstudio

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Food sovereignty resides in our relationships with one another and the land. When communities save seeds, plant gardens, and decide for themselves what to grow and how, they are both nourished and sovereign.

For most of human history, people have transmitted knowledge about maintaining harmonious food systems from generation to generation. Industrialization, property enclosures and climate disruption have frayed relationships to seeds, land, and community. The wisdom and knowledge held in those relationships suffers too.

But communities are growing it back.

In Mérida, Venezuela, where residents are now responding to the aftermath of a major earthquake, Fundacion Senderos is restoring landscapes and local food resilience. @fundacion.senderos

In Costa Rica’s Talamanca territory, Cabécar women are reviving ancestral planting systems and running a nursery of over 2,000 plants. @kabatakonana

In the Sacred Headwaters of the Amazon, the Shiwiar community of Panintza is exploring a model for food sovereignty through agro-ecological gardens, native seeds, and aquaculture @amazonheadwater @cuencassagradas

On ancestral Maleku territory in the Arenal region of Costa Rica, Tierra Valiente is expanding its syntropic food forest, laying the groundwork for community-supported agriculture. @brave_earth_

Support food sovereignty in Ma Earth’s Funding Round 3. Every donation made before July 21 is matched.

Comment FOOD and we’ll DM you links to these project profiles.

#regeneration #maearthround3 #foodsovereignty by @maearthstudio

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Bees pollinate roughly 75% of the world’s flowering plants. Without them, much of what we eat and drink — fruit, coffee, almonds, and more — simply wouldn’t exist.

Most plants rely on the collaboration of pollinators to flower, fruit, and reproduce. Yet industrial agriculture’s intensive use of pesticides is collapsing this critical cycle, hitting native bees the hardest. In areas with heavy pesticide use, bee populations have dropped by as much as 43%.

Communities around the world are strengthening their bonds with land by working with bees and reviving native habitats. They’re also building regenerative livelihoods, producing and selling local honey so they can keep tending the ecosystems they depend upon.

🐝 Bees & Trees (Uganda) @beesandtreesuganda - On the slopes of Mt. Elgon women-led honey production is paired with agroforestry to restore land.

🐝 FreeTheBees (Switzerland) @freethebees.switzerland - Reviving native forest habitat for wild bee populations, one hive at a time.

🐝 Wild Survivors (Tanzania) @wild_survivors - 248 women lead beekeeping enterprises across community coexistence corridors, earning income from honey, wax, and pollinated vegetables.

🐝 KAFRED (Uganda) - Community-run beehives within a buffer zone boost local coffee pollination, generate income, and naturally deter primates.

Learn more about communities creating livelihoods while pollinating landscapes and support their work in Ma Earth’s Funding Round 3. Every donation made before July 21 is multiplied.

🐝 Comment BEES for a direct link to these projects, and others in service to these precious pollinators.

#bees #pollinators #maearthround3 by @maearthstudio

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A city can feel like the opposite of a garden: concrete instead of soil, strangers instead of neighbors. Isolation is rising alongside urbanization. In dense cities, many people report not knowing a single neighbor by name, and know even less about the land that feeds them.

Community gardens are responding to this disconnection, with neighborhoods reclaiming shared ground and turning it into gardens.

In New Zealand, Biodynamics @biodynamicsnewzealand is growing a living curriculum in school gardens, teaching children to plant and harvest in rhythm with the seasons.

In Mexico City, Cultiva Ciudad @huertotlatelolco is turning reclaimed ground into a thriving agroecology garden at Tlatelolco.

In Kampala, RegenNow Farms is planting 50 gardens with refugees and neighbors alike.

On São Paulo’s urban edge, Instituto Favela da Paz @institutofaveladapaz is growing a regenerative future from the periphery.

In Los Angeles, the Community Garden Council @lagardencouncil shares both land and leadership across the city’s plots.

The first thing a garden grows is community. Everything else follows.

Learn more about community gardens and support these projects in Ma Earth’s Funding Round. Every donation is multiplied before July 21.

Comment GARDENS and we’ll DM you links to these project profiles.

#maearthround3 #communitygardens #foodsovereignty #regeneration @regenerosity.world by @maearthstudio

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A forest sustains the waterways, biodiversity, and human traditions that reside within it. Our forests sustain us. 🌲🌲

Yet the world’s forests are disappearing at an unprecedented rate.

In Togo, deforestation occurs at 4.5% per year. In Kenya, less than 10% of the Mau forest complex remains. In Argentina’s Sierras de Córdoba, regional water security depends on the fragile high-altitude tabaquillo forests. Along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast, decades of development have stripped away vital coastal forests, and in Scotland, centuries of clearing have left only fragments of the ancient Caledonian forest.

In each of these places, communities are doing the slow, necessary work of restoring the forests upon which so much life depends.

In Kenya, the Ogiek people are planting native dombeya trees and establishing seed banks for sacred olive and cedar species. @guardiansww

In Argentina, Acción Ambiental is scaling production to 20,000 native saplings a year to protect the region’s headwaters and watersheds. @accionambiental_org

In Togo, the Earth Guardians team works alongside women and farmers in Tagba to restore 300 hectares of community forest. @earthguardians

In Costa Rica, Costas Verdes has planted more than 100,000 trees with 13,000 volunteers. Now they are preparing 30,000 more trees for 2027. @costasverdescr

And in the Scottish Highlands, Trees for Life is rewilding the Caledonian forest landscape one native woodland at a time and welcoming 60,000 visitors a year to Dundreggan Rewilding Centre. @treesforlifeuk

Support vital reforestation work—and the communities interwoven with it—during Ma Earth’s Funding Round 3. Every donation made before July 21 is multiplied.

Comment FOREST and we’ll DM you links to these project profiles. 🌳 #forests #regeneration #reforestation by @maearthstudio

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Restoration doesn't look the same everywhere.

In Aotearoa, the Native Forest Restoration Trust has spent over 40 years buying and protecting native forest and wetland, now safeguarding more than 8,500 hectares for good.

In New South Wales, Bangalow Koalas is planting a wildlife corridor to reconnect fragmented koala habitat across the Northern Rivers. @bangalowkoalas.inc

In Kenya, Sand Dams Worldwide builds sand dams that recharge groundwater and turn drylands into farmable land. @sanddamsworldwide

In Colombia's Central Andes, SELVA studies and protects habitat for the Golden-winged Warbler and other migratory birds threatened by forest loss. @selvaorgco

In northern Kenya, Nature and People as One is a women- and youth-led Indigenous organization restoring degraded drylands. @napokenya

In Paraná, Brazil, SPVS has worked since 1984 to protect and restore the Atlantic Forest's largest remaining continuous stretch. @spvsbrasil

In Riau Province, Indonesia, Yayasan Gambut restores peatland and mangroves and helps communities prevent the fires that destroy them. @yayasangambut

In Kenya, Mount Kenya Trust has spent 25 years protecting the forests and wildlife of Mount Kenya, a critical water source for millions. @mountkenyatrust

And in cities worldwide, SUGi plants dense, biodiverse "pocket forests" using the Miyawaki method to bring nature back into urban life. @sugiproject

These nine projects are finalists for the RestorLife Awards 2026, presented by Restor and the G20 Global Land Initiative, and right now, they're live in Ma Earth's Funding Round 3, where every donation is multiplied.

Support one of these projects today.

Comment RESTOR and we'll DM you a link to these projects.

#maearthround3 #restorlife2026 #regeneration #restoration by @maearthstudio

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Waste is a modern concept. For most of human history, materials have moved in circular systems: from land to plate, kitchen to soil, and back again.

Fragmented land ownership, industrial agriculture, and urban growth have broken these cycles of use, reuse, and return. Organic material that once fed soil now ends up in landfills, waterways, and roadsides. Yet some communities know that “waste” can be an opportunity.

Grassroots projects are recycling, composting, and regenerating materials we’re used to throwing away. They are giving wetlands a vote, diverting millions of kilos of organic waste from landfills, turning agricultural waste into daily wages, and meeting a global problem with a sense of shared responsibility.

In Uganda, a wetland voted alongside land stewards for the first time in over a century on how her valley will be healed.

In Bali, a farm has diverted more than 1.5 million kilograms of organic waste from landfill and turned it into living soil. @jiwagarden

In India, crop residue that used to burn in fields is becoming income for agricultural workers.

In Indonesia, local residents have taken direct action to recycle the waste piling up in their community. @banksampahunitmandiri

And in the US, 600 schools and community sites are rebuilding the connection between people, waste systems, and the land itself. @letsgocompost

Support these projects and others building circular systems during Ma Earth’s Funding Round 3. Every donation made before July 21 is matched.

Comment CYCLE and we’ll DM you a link to these project profiles. #regeneration #zerowaste #compost #grassroots by @maearthstudio

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