The Amazonía Madre de Dios REDD project is located less than 30 km to the side of the new inter-oceanic highway that will link Brazil with Peruvian ports, in the region that belongs to the Vilcabamba-Amboró Ecological Corridor in the Peruvian Amazon.
Project details
- Location: Peru
- Category: REDD
- Standard: Verified Carbon Standard
It consists of 100,000 hectares of tropical rainforest and is one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The forest where the project is located is very important in terms of biodiversity conservation, as it provides habitat for four endangered rainforest species and eleven endangered wildlife species.
The presence of the new road has significantly increased immigration to the area, and current resources are not sufficient to cover the management of the entire area, which means that there is no adequate control and surveillance to prevent the invasion of migratory farmers and illegal loggers, resulting in the loss of large areas of forest, to the detriment of biodiversity conservation.
From a social point of view, the project will contribute to the sustainable development of rural producers and indigenous communities living in nearby areas by financing environmentally friendly productive projects, and will reduce the project’s vulnerability to external factors such as deforestation and degradation through field patrols and satellite monitoring.
The results of the without-project scenario projected the loss of 112,500 hectares over the next ten years within the project’s zone of influence. Thus, the deforestation avoided by the project within its area is expected to generate almost 9,500,000 carbon credits over a ten-year period.
Given the integration of social, economic and environmental benefits, this project achieved the “Gold” level of the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) Certification.
