Conservation Burial Alliance Best Practices
While the CBA does not certify conservation burial grounds (CBGs), as professionals dedicated to the conservation of land, we hold our burial grounds to high standards with clear and consistent criteria for defining conservation burial. The following principles incorporate conservation values and ideals that are essential to the protection, design, and management of conservation burial grounds. ​​

Green Burial Council Standards Over the Years

​​Since its inception in 2005, the Green Burial Council has developed and subsequently updated the certification standards it requires. Some conservation level cemeteries that enter into agreements with land trusts cite versions of these standards in their easements. We include several versions here to assist land trusts and their burial ground partners in locating the standards in effect when their easements were written.

The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem.
Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.”
— Theodore Roosevelt