Project/Juridiction proponent

Project/Juridiction Partners

Project characteristics

• ID-RECCO ID
  954
• Project status 2022
  Ongoing
• Project name
  EXPERIMENTAL REGENERATION OF DIVERSE FORESTS ON ABANDONED PASTURES IN PANGUANA
• Secondary name
• Country
  Peru
• Last IDRECCO update year
  2022
• Size (in hectare)
  140
• Start year
  ND
• End year
  2121
• Duration
  100
• Project description
  Panguana is the oldest biological research station in Peru (founded in 1968) with a focus on studying the immense biodiversity of the Amazon rainforest. The research station is located on the western edge of the Reserva Comunal El Sira (RC El Sira), a national protected area established to protect the pristine montane rainforests of the Cordillera El Sira. The buffer zone of the RCS and its surrounding area is mainly populated by indigenous communities and small-scale farmers. Intensive deforestation in this area in favour of pastures has resulted in fragments of primary rainforests existing primarily as islands between pastures. In this respect, the private nature reserve of Panguana currently forms a peninsula with an intact connection to the untouched rainforests in the heart of the RC El Sira. Restoration of degraded pastureland and rehabilitation of secondary forests adjacent to existing old growth forests at Panguana presents the opportunity to conserve an important biodiversity corridor as well as an effective strategy for rehabilitation of degraded tropical forest across the region. The project has the following main goals: • Restore natural rainforests on pastures within the area of the Panguana foundation (~140 ha) • Accelerate forest restoration by testing different approaches and developing best practices for local conditions • Introduce sustainable food and tree production systems (permaculture, aquaponics, tree nursery) • Only use inexpensive materials and methods, easily available in the region • Exchange knowledge and develop a sustainable landscape management together with local stakeholders (indigenous communities, small-scale farmers, local institutions) It is expected that the project activities will lead to a mean annual removal of ~16 t CO2e per hectare during the first 20 years.
• Objective 1
  biodiversity conservation
• Objective 2
  non timber production
• Objective 3
  social development
• Deforestation drivers
  infrastructure
• Type of forest
  humid
• Project activity
  ARR
• Project Type
  ARR
• Details for Afforestation/Reforestation activity
  ecosystem restoration
• Multiple locations?
  no
• Jurisdiction level 1
  Department: Huánuco
• Jurisdiction level 2
  Province of Puerto Inca

Carbon accounting

• Crediting period
  2021-2121
• Period to calculate annual carbon credits
• Annual carbon credits
• Total carbon credits
  94035
• Leakage is expected?
  ND
• Carbon pools included
  Below ground biomass | dead wood
• Gasses included
  CO2
• Reference period start year
  ND
• Reference period end year
  ND
• Carbon standard 1
  VCS

Carbon certification

• Carbon standard 1 Progress
  in process
• Carbon standard 1 Publication date
  ND
• Carbon standard 1 Weblinks
  https://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=55429&IDKEY=8903q4jsafkasjfu90amnmasdfkaidflnmdf9348r09dmfasdfk76436591
• 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
  VCS PDD (https://registry.verra.org/mymodule/ProjectDoc/Project_ViewFile.asp?FileID=55429&IDKEY=8903q4jsafkasjfu90amnmasdfkaidflnmdf9348r09dmfasdfk76436591)

Community level intervention

• Any monetary benefits?
  Yes
• Monetary benefit type
  Non-conditional
• Monetary benefit detail
  double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farming employment.
• Provides employment?
  Yes
• Are there non-cash benefits?
  Yes
• Economic activities - type
  Tree planting
• Is there tenure clarification?
  No
• Is there environmental education?
  Yes
• Is there forest access restriction or control/monitoring of deforestation?
  ND
• Is there forest enhancement?
  Yes
• Is there community infrastracture improvement?
  Yes
• Is there other community benefits?
  Yes