Location Galle district, SE Sri Lanka Project coordinator Conservation Carbon Company (with Rainforest Rescue International)Go to website Activities Mixed species reforestation with tea smallholders to create biodiversity corridoor Area under management 11 ha Participants 15 Plan Vivo Status Registered Plan Vivo project since July 2012 Verification status Verification required before August 2017

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Hiniduma, in the southwest of Sri Lanka, is a mixed agricultural community surrounded by one the island’s last remaining rainforest ecosystems. The World Heritage Forests of Singharaja and Kanneliya, and numerous forest fragments, lie within 10km of this small village. Together, they account for more than 60 percent of the country’s surviving primary rainforest cover, and are under extreme threat. Around Hiniduma, the need to integrate community development with conservation is pressing.

The Hiniduma Conservation Carbon Programme works with local communities, mainly tea farmers, to plant endemic forest trees to protect the forest buffer zone against fragmentation and eventually create a biodiversity corridoor between the forest patches.