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.

Burkina Faso has a larger number of elephants than many countries in West Africa. Lions, leopards and buffalo can also be found there, including the dwarf or red buffalo, a smaller reddish-brown animal which looks like a fierce kind of short-legged cow.

As part of the national conservation effort, more than 1.2 million trees have been replanted in Chad to check the advancement of the desert, which creates financial returns from fruit trees and acacia trees, which produce gum arabic.