Recent Project

Fauna Flora International (FFI) – Development of REDD within an oil palm plantation in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Forest Carbon has been engaged by FFI as the lead technical advisor to develop a REDD project to conserve some 7,000 ha of peat swamp forest within an oil palm concession owned by the Indonesian conglomerate, ANJ Agri. This project is part of a landscape scale initiative to finance the long term protection of High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF) within an RSPO certified plantation and to provide habitat connectivity between Gunung Palung National Park and extensive peat swamp forests for endangered species including the Bornean orangutan. This is the first project to directly engage the oil palm sector in REDD related conservation and has been directly supported by the International Finance Corporation, Foreign Commonwealth Office of the UK, AusAID and the Packard Foundation.

Forest Carbon is currently acting as lead technical implementer and advisor on this project for eventual certification under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) as well as the International Finance Corporation’s Biodiversity and Agricultural Commodities Program.  Forest Carbon is responsible for the development of land cover classification maps through satellite image analysis, baseline emission modeling, and the synthesis of the project design document. Forest Carbon also conducted an in depth legal analysis in order to develop an appropriate strategy to legally house a carbon project within the concession.

Through the submission of a technical proposal on behalf of FFI to the Planet Action Foundation, the project obtained free high resolution satellite imagery for FFI saving the organization over $50,000 in project costs.