Mexico is home to 10–12% of the world's biodiversity. Mexico's national government has pledged to restore 6.5 million hectares of land by 2020, and three states have made additional commitments to the Bonn Challenge.

The first 20 years of South Korea's growth surge resulted in deforestation and the ongoing destruction of wetlands. However, there have been recent efforts to balance these problems, including an $84 billion five-year green growth project to boost energy efficiency and green technology.

In 2015, the government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province (KPK), announced the "Billion Tree Tsunami" campaign, which aims to turn the tide on land degradation and loss in KPK, a formerly forested province in the Hindu Kush mountain range.