Rewilding Buffalo

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Restoring buffalo, restoring economies, restoring sovereignty

Project Description

Once numbering 60 million across North America, buffalo shaped entire ecosystems and cultures. Today, the Buffalo Nations Fund (BNF) is pioneering a replicable Indigenous-led model to restore buffalo to ancestral lands, unlock new classes of nature-backed credits, and generate long-term ecological and economic resilience.

Project Owner / Key Partner

Buffalo Nations Fund (Indigenous-led)

BGF's Role

Blue Green Future supports the Fund’s tribal projects in quantifying ecosystem services and carbon yields, structuring sovereign carbon securities, and designing replicable investment frameworks that align with Indigenous sovereignty, global climate finance and the global biodiversity framework.

Outcomes

  • Restoration of buffalo to tribal lands
  • Strengthened ecosystems and biodiversity
  • Revitalization of Indigenous cultural practices
  • Creation of the first sovereign carbon security framework globally
  • Economic development and long-term revenue for tribal nations
  • Scalable model for Indigenous-led climate finance

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