Rio Anapu-Pacaja REDD+ Project

What the project does.

The Rio Anapu-Pacajá REDD Carbon Credit Project in Portel, Pará is protecting 165,707 hectares in a highly critical region of the Brazilian Amazon. The project is mainly focused on conserving the native forest through protection and conservation of native flora and fauna and preventing degradation and deforestation from illegal loggers and encroachment.

The project is in an area of extreme poverty and with high levels of land grabbing, land conflict and instability, as such the focus will be on bringing stability to all the surrounding areas. One of these ways is by paying for and helping the local Riverine people (“ribeirinhos” traditional Indigenous community of river people) to gain land tenure documents and eventually secure full freehold title deeds.

So far, the project has paid for and completed the paperwork on 127 family plots as well as providing cook stoves to 50 families with the goal of continuing to support additional further families that will benefit from the sale of carbon credits.

State of Pará, micro region of Portel, Brazil

What it supports.

• Supporting local peoples to obtain permanent land title documents to ensure the project continues in perpetuity
• Providing sustainable resources such as energy efficient cook stoves
• Focus on local stakeholders as beneficiaries of the project