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Forest Carbon ProjectsInformation about individual forest carbon projects verified or validated by the Rainforest Alliance is below. Developer(s): Aceh Provincial Government, Carbon Conservation, Fauna and Flora International The project seeks to establish protection for lowland, hill, and montane tropical rainforest in the mountainous Ulu Massen ecosystem in Aceh, Indonesia. This is one of the largest contiguous forest blocks in Indonesia and connects to the Leuser Ecosystem, together forming a 3.3 million hectare forest area with Sumatran tiger, elephant, rhino, and orangutan. The project builds upon the Aceh Forest Environment Program, which features a redesign of the conventional concession system, a logging moratorium while consultations on spatial planning are occurring, and work towards eventual community based forest management areas. Developer(s): AMBIO Scolel Te is a project to sequester carbon within restoration forests and improved agroforestry systems, which will enhance the livelihoods for rural farming communities in Mexico. This is a registered Plan Vivo project involving hundreds of producers implementing Plan Vivo technical specifications on small landholdings. The reforestation and agroforestry systems implemented by the project are designed to capture more carbon than the baseline conditions of pastureland, scrubland, degraded forests, or traditional cropping of corn and beans. Retorno de Bosque / Return to Forest Developer(s): Paso Pacifico Communities and landowners (mostly cattle ranchers) will reestablish 400 hectares of dry and moist tropical forest using nearly 70 different, regionally suitable native species. Tree planting are designed to reestablish and reconnect patches of forest cleared over the years for cattle ranching -- one of the most common, but increasingly un-profitable, land uses in the region. Project activities enable the restoration of biological corridors through the Rivas Isthmus of Southwestern Nicaragua (a thin strip between Lake Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean). Panama Native Species Restoration Developer(s): Futuro Forestal S.A. This is a Native Species Restoration project that includes two types of farms: those reforested with trees for commercial purposes and carbon benefits, as well as farms reforested purely for carbon benefits. The forest areas integrate teak plantation, native species, riparian forests and preserves. Developer(s): MASISA S.A. MASISA S.A. is a forest company with plantations of pine and eucalyptus, which are FSC-certified, located in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. MASISA is a member of the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the verification completed in 2007 was an assessment of CO2 stock and reductions from the MASISA estate from January 1st, 2003 through December 31st, 2006. The methodology was based on a CO2 Reduction Model developed by MASISA and approved by the CCX forestry technical committee. The Rainforest Alliance also verified the total carbon net change during the 2007 reporting period to a reasonable level of assurance. Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge Reforestation Developer(s): Carbonfund This project helps to restore native bottomland hardwood forests in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. An area once covered in dense forests, it now supports less than 20 percent of its original forest land. Historical conversion from forest to agriculture in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley for corn, sugarcane, and cotton greatly reduced the presence of bottomland hardwoods. The remaining forest areas are highly fragmented. This afforestation project will restore 1,870 acres of bottomland hardwood forest within the boundaries of the Tensas River National Wildlife Refuge in Madison Parish in Northeastern Louisiana.
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