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The award-winning Yaeda-Eyasi project works with the indigenous Hadza hunter-gatherer and Tatoga pastoralist communities in Tanzania to apply REDD conservation forestry. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
Scolel'te is a tree-planting project in Chiapas, Mexico, and the oldest ecosystem services project on the Voluntary Carbon Market, trading the world's first carbon credits. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
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The REACH Italia project works with indigenous communities in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso to sustainably restore degraded pasture land by assisted natural regeneration activities. The project also contributes to the Great Green Wall. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The award-winning Mikoko Pamoja project is the world's first blue carbon project. Led by the Gazi Bay community, it restores and preserves mangroves and seagrass habitats. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Trees of Hope project works with smallholder communities in Tanzania to sustainable agroforestry activities. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Emiti Nibwo Bolura project works with smallholder communities in Tanzania to apply sustainable tree-planting (reforestation) and agroforestry. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The award-winning TGB project works with smallholder communities across Uganda to apply tree-planting (reforestation), agroforestry, and assisted natural regeneration. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Hiniduma Bio-Link project works with smallholder communities in Sri Lanka to conserve and restore Sri Lanka's last remaining rainforests and apply sustainable agroforestry activities. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
India's first community-based REDD+ project, Khasi Hills project works with communities to conserve and restore cloud forest, sacred groves and watersheds. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The EthioTrees project works with communities in the Tembian Highlands of Ethiopia to sustainably restore degraded pasture land by assisted natural regeneration activities. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The AGED project works with indigenous communities in the Sahel region of Burkina Faso to sustainably restore degraded pasture land by assisted natural regeneration activities. The project also contributes to the Great Green Wall. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The ArBolivia project links smallholders across Bolivia with ethical timber investors, so planting trees to combat climate change and generating sustainable timber supply chains for buyers. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The CommuniTree project works with smallholders across Nicaragua to plant trees and apply agroforestry practices. Monitoring is done through their pioneering web and mobile app (formerly known as FARM-TRACE). Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Rarakau project works with indigenous Māori land owners New Zealand to conserve their rainforests through sustainable land-use practices. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Drawa Rainforest project works with indigenous land owners in Vanua Levu, Fiji, to conserve their rainforests through sustainable land-use practices and community businesses. The project is a part of the Nakau Programme. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The award-winning Loru Forest project (also known as Ser-Thiac) works with indigenous communities on Espiritu Santo, Vanuatu, to conserve village forests and apply sustainable agroforestry practices. The project is a part of the Nakau Programme. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Punan Long Adiu Lauk project works with indigenous communities in Indonesia to protect village rainforests against logging, mining and oil palm concessions. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Nanga Lauk project works with indigenous communities in Indonesia to conserve village rainforests, apply sustainable land-use practices and gain legal rights for locals. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Durian Rambun project works with indigenous communities in Jambi, Indonesia, to conserve and restore the natural rainforest. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Pastures, Conservation, Climate Action (PCCA) project works with indigenous, nomadic tribes in the highlands of Mongolia to restore and conserve soil levels through sustainable grazing activities. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
The Bujang Raba project works with indigenous communities in Sumatra, Indonesia, to conserve the Bukti tropical rainforest and apply sustainable agroforestry activities. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified EthioTrees project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Trees of Hope project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Emiti Nibwo Bolura project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified TGB project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified AGED project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified REACH Italia project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Yaeda-Eyasi project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Mikoko Pamoja project (a blue carbon project), including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Scolel'te project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified ArBolivia project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified CommuniTree project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Bujang-Raba project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Hiniduma Bio-Link project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Khasi Hills project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Halo Verde project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more
The Halo Verde project works with smallholder communities in Timor Leste (East Timor) to plant trees, apply agroforestry and assisted natural regeneration activities. Find out more about this project, its social and environmental benefits, and how it contributes to the SDGs. Read more
View documentation from the Plan Vivo-certified Punan Long Adiu project, including the Project Design Document (PDD), technical specifications, annual reports and audit reports. Read more