In Siquijor, communities who accept responsibility for monitoring an MPA receive income from tourism dollars, charging a fee to snorkel, scuba dive, and take photos or videos within the MPA. Another income stream is from development projects by the local natural resources agency. For example, the community receives fingerlings and bamboo to make fish cages for small aquaculture projects and can then sell the fish when they have reached market size. Providing income opportunities outside of overfishing and unsustainable marine resource use ensures that communities that are dependent on marine resources will be able to continue maintaining their livelihoods while conserving the ecosystem.

CI has developed general guidelines to help conservation practitioners ask questions about gender within conservation initiatives, and develop practical and socially-appropriate responses to gender gaps/inequalities.

Barrier Islands have long been reported to provide disaster risk reduction from storm surge. Modelling shows that barrier islands contribute to storm surge attenuation, but do not remove it completely. Benefits include annual hurricane and storm damage risk reduction to the mainland, annual recreation benefits, and annual fishery losses avoided. By replacing sand back into the littoral zone, there is a long-term contribution to the sediment budget of the islands and an opportunity for island chains to replace lost sands from one place to provide growth in others. Sands are either barged in from other locations, or dredged from nearby sources, then pumped into degraded area in stages, which allows for some natural settling to occur.

River diversions have been built along the Mississippi River in Louisiana to help replace some of the lost function of periodic pulses of fresh water, historically delivered during periods of high water, into the coastal wetlands. River diversions are water control structures that allow controlled flows from the Mississippi River into various basins of the delta. The Davis Pond diversion, with a 300 cubic meter per second discharge, upstream from New Orleans, releases fresh river water into the Barataria Basin which strongly influences salinities and sediment loads into the Jean Lafitte NHPP Barataria Preserve. Abundant fresh water and nutrient input into the preserve results in a robust growth response from submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV).

Spoil banks from canal dredging are being pushed back into the canals, as funds for projects come available, in "backfilling" events. This helps restore the normal hydrology and keep the marsh healthy and less stressed. Canal backfilling eliminates the hydrology barrier present from the dredged material spoil banks, as well as partially filling in canals long unused for oil exploration or production extraction. Using heavy equipment, such as excavators on amphibious marsh buggies, old spoil banks are pushed into the canals. Trees are knocked down and the final elevation is similar to the surrounding marsh. This allows natural flows of water and allows for the mixing and equilibration of fresh and brackish waters. Canals have been backfilled at a cost of US$12K/0.5 ha. Hydrologic barriers are removed, water flow is no longer restricted, an exchange of fresher and saltier waters can take place and sediments within the water can move into the marsh, nourishing the marsh and adding to the vertical soil accretion. Submerged aquatic plants thrive as the elevation of the canal bottom is raised.

Dredged materials from periodic dredging events are sometimes broadcast onto the marsh, including the floating marsh, in a marsh nourishment effort. When possible, spray dredges are used. These dredges collect the material, mix it with ambient water and spray the slurry on to the marsh surface. The thickness of the applied slurry can vary from very light, which would primarily nourish the marsh with fresh sediments and light nutrient loads, or applied to the marsh surface at depths up to and around 30 cm. Thicker applications would be desired if there is a strong vertical elevation deficit due to high soil subsidence rates.

The scale of restoration and broad scope of stakeholders impacted by and interested in the Dartmoor Mires project lead to a diversity of often competing interests and highlighted the need to align those interests behind a shared goal and ensure a productive environment for maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the planning and implementation processes. The project thus utilized an inclusive partnership - the ‘Dartmoor Mires Partnership’ - to enable access to the necessary resources, expertise, experience and perspectives, secure a high level of commitment and aspirations from those involved, and ensure that a wide range of interests were considered as the project developed. The partnership also served to gather evidence to inform partners’ decision-making and planning for the future and draw out learning from this pilot for the benefit of the partnership and wider audiences. The partnership contained organisations with a range of different roles and responsibilities in respect to Dartmoor in general and the Mires habitat in particular. The project evaluation has shown that how a restoration project of this type is organised is as important to its success as the techniques it deploys on the ground.

The Dartmoor Mires Project aimed to investigate the feasibility and effects of experimental restoration techniques on the blanket bog. Aspects such as the impacts on biodiversity, hydrology and climate change mitigation and adaptation objectives as well as the historic environment were central. To gather evidence on these aspects, the project integrated an extensive survey about the state of the resources prior to the implementation of the intervention as well as an elaborate monitoring scheme to quantify the effects of the restoration work after its completion. The knowledge gained from this programme has provided an evidence base for considering the potential for future work.

Local communities use mangrove forests in order to get timber, to fish and to collect clams and other seafood. This human interference disrupts the natural rejuvenation process of mangrove forests, for instance when fishing nets carry away mangrove seeds. For successful mangrove rehabilitation, this has to stop – and mangrove rehabilitation is in the interest of the local communities, because more mangroves mean more fish, seafood and timber. This is where the co-management approach comes in. Co-management or shared governance is a partnership agreement in which the local population gets the right to sustainably use natural resources like forests, fish and shellfish, along with the responsibility to sustainably manage and protect these resources. The idea is to allow local communities to use the mangrove forests which are owned by the state for their livelihoods. In return, local communities take over a part of the responsibility to protect the forest. The co-management building block establishes a system of shared governance between the state and the communities. Amongst others, local communities respect that at certain times, they may not enter certain protection zones.