International

This page provides a list of green infrastructure related projects outside the United States. Click on the links below to learn more about each of these projects. If you are familiar with a project outside the US that is not listed here, please suggest a profile, including a website or contact person in the body of the e-mail message.

City of St. Catharine's Ontario

The City of St. Catharine's Green Plan is an action plan that identifies the City's green spaces and proposes strategies to protect and enhance those spaces.   Read more>

Harlow Area, UK

The Green Infrastructure Plan provides guidance on how the green areas should be protected, enhanced and where appropriate extended. Green spaces can include areas such as parks, gardens, woods and nature reserves with or without public access; linkages include linear features such as off-road paths, highways, rivers, streams or hedgerows, which can provide corridors for wildlife and connect people to open spaces.  Read more>

Paseo Pantera

The “Paseo Pantera” initiative was designed to establish a biological corridor of parks and protected areas throughout the length of Central America.   Read more>

Sky Islands Network

The proposed conservation system, the Sky Islands Wildlands Network (SIWN), encompasses about 17.3 million acres and extends from the Mogollon Rim in east-central Arizona and west-central New Mexico south to the northern Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico.   Read more>

Yellowstone to Yukon

The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative is a joint Canadian-U.S. network of over 340 organizations, institutions, foundations, and conservation-minded individuals who have recognized the value of working together to restore and maintain the unique natural heritage of the Yellowstone to Yukon region and the quality of life it offers.   Read more>
Join the Community of Practice

North Carolina Conservation Based Affordable Housing

 

The Green Infrastructure Community of Practice is a collaborative network of organizations and agencies that are actively involved in the strategic green infrastructure approach to conservation and environmental protection or restoration. Learn more>

Spotlight
Green Infrastructure book cover
Green Infrastructure: Linking Landscapes and Communities by Mark A. Benedict and Edward T. McMahon is an illustrative review of advances in smart land conservation and large scale thinking that provides a green solution to many of the problems associated with sprawling development.
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