Impact recorded, against impact needed
This page exists to show a gap, not to flatter us. Everything on the left is what this record currently holds, with a source behind each number. Everything on the right is somebody else’s published target, cited by name.
Area
Bonn Challenge
541,203 recorded of 350,000,000 hectares
0.155% · Bonn Challenge — 350 million hectares of degraded land under restoration by 2030
From 3 sourced statements across 58 published entities in 1 country.
Trees
63,728,503 trees, from 8 sourced statements
Reported by the organisations themselves. Deliberately not converted into hectares and not added to the area figure above — a tree count and an area measure different things, and combining them would invent a number neither source supports.
What is uncounted
- Almost everything. This record holds 58 published entities, concentrated in 1 country. The gap above is mostly our coverage, not the world’s inaction.
- Nurseries and small growers, almost entirely. Most operate informally and have no web presence, and some have real regulatory reasons not to want one.
- Work by people who have not been written about. Absence here means we have not reached someone, never that they do not exist.
- 24 of the published facts are marked reported, not verified — the source says it, but vaguely. They are included and labelled rather than hidden.
How to read this
Every number on this page comes from a statement with a source you can open. We never convert between units, never add a reported figure to a measured one, and never use our own estimate as a denominator. Where we do not know something, the page says so.
The other targets in this space are counted differently again — see Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which sets a proportional goal rather than an absolute one, and which this record is not yet broad enough to measure against.