Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  682
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  Babatana Rainforest Conservation Project
• Secondary name
  Sirebe Inception Project
• Country
  Solomon Islands
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2020
• Size (in hectare)
  856
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2045
• Duration
  30
• Project description
  Termination of baseline logging activities and placement of Project Area into a Protected Area. This project is owned by the indigenous peoples of the Sirebe and Vuri tribal groups at Sassamungga, and the Boeboe community. These indigenous landowners have voluntarily given up rights to logging in exchange for the opportunity to create and sell rainforest carbon offsets from their lowland coastal rainforests.
• Objective 1
  participatory forest management
• Objective 2
  climate
• Objective 3
  social development
• Deforestation drivers
  industrial wood exploitation, local livelihoods
• Type of forest
  humid
• Project activity
  IFM|REDD
• Project Type
  REDD
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  NA
• Multiple locations?
  No
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Province: Choiseul
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Ward: Babatana

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2015-2044
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  522690
• Leakage is expected?
  ND
• Carbon pools included
  ND
• Gasses included
  CO2
• Reference period start year
  2015
• Reference period end year
  2019
• Carbon standard 1
  Plan Vivo

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  Certified
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  44447
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  https://www.planvivo.org/babatana-documents
• Carbon standard 1 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2
  none
• Carbon standard 2 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 2 Expiry date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3
  none
• Carbon standard 3 Progress
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Weblinks
  ND
• Carbon standard 3 Expiry date
  ND
• Source of information
  https://ekos.co.nz/projectsblog/sasaboe-rainforest-conservation-project https://nrdfsolomons.org/new-tribe-welcomed-to-the-network-of-forest-conservation-areas-in-the-babatana-project-south-choiseul/ https://nrdfsolomons.org/ https://www.nakau.org/babatana.html

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Unclear
• Monetary benefit detail
  Direct cash: If Group Benefit target is exceeded (a profit beyond the Group benefit target). The Dividend Account contains an allocation of the profit that can be used to pay individual owners (or families) in cash dividends. Employment: It is expected that household income will increase though the project directly resulting from revenues from carbon sales (e.g. dividends to members) and related employment. Direct employment will include a local finance manager, operations manager and rangers, whom will undertake forest monitoring and activities from the management plan.
• Provides employment?
  Yes
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  tree planting
• Is there tenure clarification?
  ND
• Is there environmental education?
  ND
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  ND
• Is there forest enhancement?
  ND
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  Yes
• Is there other community benefits?
  ND