Project expansion: The community is now building the new nurseries and filling approximately 475,000 seedling bags with soil, giving us a 50% surplus. This year we are expanding our project boundary to the entire municipality of Limay.

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Reforestation – Limay Community Carbon

At the Limay Community Carbon Project in Nicaragua, we are helping create high quality carbon compensation in accordance with the Plan Vivo standard – a long established framework for projects developing local livelihoods and conserving and restoring local ecosystems. The 2011 planting season for the Limay Community Carbon Project was a great success. 68 participating farming families worked hard to plant over 141,800 trees on 114 hectares of land. That was almost 2.5 times the previous year’s total!

Our investment helps small-scale farmers to work on cooperative principles, establishing mixed species forest plantations on under used areas of their own land. A sustainable reforestation project is stronger if it provides direct benefit to local people and helps address the processes that lead to deforestation in the first place.  The Limay project provides direct benefit to local people, taking into account the communities’ needs for food production, pastureland, timber and fuel wood.

The Limay project works closely with individual farmers and provides them with increased income from the international carbon markets.  Livelyhood is also enhanced through timber and fuel wood that can be sustainably harvested, while wider ecological benefits arise from reforestation across the Platanares watershed.

Generating carbon compensation (offsets) in accordance with the Plan Vivo Standards involves rigorous measurement, monitoring and third party verification procedures. Plan Vivo’s stakeholders and supporters include UNDP, WWF and Rainforest Alliance.

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