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InfiniteEARTH has partnered with renowned primatologist and conservationist, Dr. Birute Galdikas, one of the three female protégés of world famous anthropologist, Dr. Louis Leakey and the Orangutan Foundation International Rehabilitation Center (OFI), home to over 300 injured or orphaned Orangutans. To this end, InfiniteEARTH has established the “Rimba Raya” (Infinite Forest) Reserve – Borneo, 500 square kilometers of virgin tropical rainforest in Central Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). The Reserve was purchased by InfiniteEARTH in order to save it from total destruction by palm oil plantations. The Reserve is co-managed by OFI and provides a habitat for wild and rehabilitated Orangutans. The Rimba Raya Reserve is protected along its entire western border by the Tanjung Puting National Park and on its eastern border by the Seruyan River. The Reserve consists almost entirely of “Tropical Peat Swamp Forests”, some of the most bio-diverse and endangered rainforest on the planet. The Peat Swamp Forests in Borneo alone hold up to 70 times the carbon emitted annually by the combustion of fossil fuels world-wide.

Forest Carbon is providing technical assistance to InfiniteEarth (IE) and its partners on the establishment of the Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve Project under the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS). Forest Carbon has worked with IE on all aspects of developing this large-scale REDD project since 2008. It has conducted a full carbon stock assessment that includes aerial photos, ground surveys and satellite imagery. Forest Carbon’s team has worked on capacity building with OFI’s employees training them to conduct future on the ground carbon stock assessments which will be performed in the future as part of the ongoing carbon monitoring of the project area. Forest Carbon has also developed the technical sections of the Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Alliance (CCBA) Standard Project Design Document and wrote the entire Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS) project document for the project. Lastly, Forest Carbon has assisted IE with policy and bureaucratic support at the national and district levels.