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Khasi Hills Community REDD+ Project – India

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About the project

The Khasi Hills Community REDD+ Project is India’s first community-based REDD+ programme and protects and restores 27,000 ha of cloud forest, in addition to preserving sacred groves and watersheds.

The project aims to slow, halt and reverse the loss of community forests in the East Khasi Hills District of Meghalaya by providing support, new technologies and financial incentives to conserve existing forests and regenerate degraded forests. Khasi Hills is a global biodiversity hotspot, providing habitat to many endangered species.

Another primary objective of the project is to deliver long-term strategies to address extreme poverty facing rural families, including by establishing women-run microfinance institutions. Through creating firelines to reduce the impact of forest fires and by providing carbon finance, the project increases the communities’ resilience in the face of a changing climate.

A polytunnel with leafy vegetables growing and three women, one watering the plants, and the other two weeding
Polytunnel
  • A group of standing stones with misty wooded hills in the background
  • A polytunnel with leafy vegetables growing and three women, one watering the plants, and the other two weeding
  • Two people planting a seedling in a field
  • A group of people outside a building with a sign
  • A line of children in blue school uniform plants seedlings in a grassy field
  • Bags of straw with mushrooms growing out of them hanging in a room
  • A deer in a clearing in the forest captured on a camera trap
  • A group of standing stones with misty wooded hills in the background
  • A polytunnel with leafy vegetables growing and three women, one watering the plants, and the other two weeding
  • Two people planting a seedling in a field
  • A group of people outside a building with a sign
  • A line of children in blue school uniform plants seedlings in a grassy field
  • Bags of straw with mushrooms growing out of them hanging in a room
  • A deer in a clearing in the forest captured on a camera trap

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