New finance tools bring $10 billion into African conservation

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The African conservation sector has attracted over $10 billion in funding over the past 18 months through biodiversity bonds, carbon credit agreements, debt-for-nature swaps and more. This is based on a detailed database of African conservation funding kept by Conservation Rising and updated weekly. 

• The recent listing of Africa’s first $132 million conservation bond on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange is the clearest sign yet that conservation finance is moving into mainstream capital markets. 

• The last 18 months also recorded Africa’s first $180 million project finance for permanence initiative in Gabon and the revival of debt-for-nature swaps funding model with a $500 million pipeline, among other funding deals.

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