About

Who Gains from Saving Nature is a public record of money spent in the name of nature: conservation and restoration programmes, carbon credits and offsets, debt swaps, protected areas, clean-up funds and green claims, and the laws, lawsuits and insurance claims around them. Each case is asked the same questions: what happened, who gained, who lost, who was harmed, and what nature itself shows.

The database holds 1,209 cases from 158 countries, with 3,675 linked sources. 479 have a full case file: the parties' own accounts side by side, the money where it is on record, court and insurance outcomes, and nature's report. 730 are short records: the main facts with their sources, to be expanded into full files.

It accompanies a documentary series. The films tell selected cases; the database holds the record behind them and every other case documented so far.

It reports what the record shows, with a source link for every fact, and labels material that is reported but not verified.

It sets the parties' accounts side by side: companies, governments, courts, the press, communities, civil society and researchers.

It records what is missing — undisclosed payments, harm that no one measured, cases never heard in court — as information in its own right.

How case files are built, how figures are labelled and how estimates are made is set out in the Method.

Every case page carries a citation with its address and last update. Cases can be compared and downloaded as CSV or JSON from Compare & report. When you use a fact, please cite the original source linked beside it as well as this database.