Guatemala has multiple pledges to the Bonn Challenge: a national commitment to restore 1.2 million hectares and the first pledge by private reserves, from the Association of Guatemalan Private Natural Reserves for 40,000 hectares.

Although the Guinean and Ivorian sides of the Nimba Massif, a protected area, are a UNESCO Strict Nature Reserve, the portion of the so-called Guinean Backbone continues into Liberia, where it has been mined for decades. 

Around 25% of the Costa Rica's land area is in protected national parks and protected areas, the largest percentage of protected areas in the world.