The Restoration Seed Capital Facility Welcomes Fronterra as a New Partner to Accelerate Investment in Community-Based Forest Restoration and Conservation in Latin America
Frankfurt / Marseille / Lima / Cusco, 15 June 2026
The Restoration Seed Capital Facility (RSCF) is pleased to announce a new partnership with Fronterra, a Franco-Peruvian nature-based solutions company developing community-based forest restoration, conservation, carbon and biodiversity projects in Peru.
Through this partnership, RSCF will provide financial support to accelerate Fronterra’s efforts to develop a robust pipeline of investable nature-based solutions, with a particular focus on forest landscape restoration, community-based reforestation, sustainable forest management, carbon removals, emissions reductions and biodiversity outcomes.
Fronterra is building a scalable natural-capital platform based on a conviction: Peruvian rural and Indigenous communities are land-asset rich, even when their land has been degraded by decades of underinvestment, deforestation, erosion or low-productivity land use. Fronterra partners with these communities to restore the natural capital embedded in their territories, bringing the human capital, technical expertise, governance systems and access to financial capital required to turn degraded landscapes into long-term sources of climate, biodiversity and economic value.
Fronterra business model built around shared value creation: Communities bring natural & social capital: land, local knowledge and long-term stewardship. Fronterra brings human capital: project development, carbon and biodiversity expertise, forestry operations, ESG systems and access to investors. Together, they raise financial capital: by creating investable restoration and conservation projects that can generate revenues from carbon credits, biodiversity credits, sustainable forestry and agroforestry value chains.
RSCF’s support will help Fronterra strengthen the early-stage development and investment-readiness of its Peru project pipeline, including technical feasibility, environmental and social assessments, legal structuring, carbon and biodiversity baselines, community engagement, and preparation for institutional investment. The partnership will contribute to de-risking projects at the stage where early development costs are often hardest to finance, but where strong technical and social foundations are essential for long-term impact.
“RSCF’s support is a major milestone for Fronterra and a strong endorsement of our long-term vision,” said Juan Carlos González Aybar, Founder and CEO of Fronterra. “Our business model starts from a very clear observation: many rural and Indigenous communities are land-asset rich, but their natural capital has been degraded and underfinanced. Fronterra partners with these communities to bring the human capital, technical capacity, governance and financial capital needed to restore that value. We are building profitable, purpose-driven natural-capital platform that create long-term value for communities, nature and impact investors.”
Fronterra places community partnerships at the centre of its operating model. Its projects integrate Free, Prior and Informed Consent processes, grievance mechanisms, benefit-sharing arrangements and long-term local engagement. In Peru, Fronterra also operates within a national regulatory framework that increasingly reinforces transparency, traceability and legal certainty for carbon projects, including registration through the Peruvian carbon registry “Registro Nacional de Medidas de Mitigacion – RENAMI”.
The partnership with Fronterra reflects RSCF’s role in helping promising forest landscape restoration initiatives overcome early-stage barriers and become ready for private investment. By supporting project developers and investment vehicles at critical development stages, RSCF aims to help close the financing gap for restoration and catalyse scalable models capable of delivering climate, biodiversity and livelihood outcomes.
About Fronterra
Fronterra is a Franco-Peruvian nature-based solutions company developing high-integrity forest carbon and biodiversity projects in Latin America. Founded in 2024, Fronterra partners with rural and Indigenous communities that hold significant land assets, often degraded or underfinanced, and helps restore their natural capital through long-term, investable restoration and conservation projects.
About the Restoration Seed Capital Facility
Supported by the governments of Germany and Luxembourg and implemented by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, the Restoration Seed Capital Facility is a unique initiative designed to catalyse investment in forest and landscape restoration. The Facility supports impact fund managers or advisers, as well as project developers, bring new investment vehicles to market and develop pipelines of investable opportunities that contribute to forest restoration and conservation.
The Facility contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and supports the objectives of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the Bonn Challenge and the Rio Conventions, including the Paris Agreement, Land Degradation Neutrality targets and global biodiversity goals. RSCF aims to significantly scale up forest and landscape restoration during the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.
For more information, please visit the Restoration Seed Capital Facility website or contact the team at https://restorationfacility.org/
