Protecting the Devil's Forests

Protecting the Devil’s Forests

Redd Forests’ Grouped Project

This Improved Forest Management project has been established in Tasmania to protect native forests from logging for 25 years. The project has been validated under the Verified Carbon Standard, and will undergo certification under the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard.

This is the first Grouped Project in the world to be verified under the Verified Carbon Standard. This structure permits the inclusion of additional project proponents and land parcels without the individual costs of validation. The Grouped Project

The project currently has 6 proponents and over 25,000 hectares under protection, avoiding some 3.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions over the lifetime of the project. However, it is expanding rapidly: Redd Forests projects that this IFM project will protect 150,000 hectares of native forest on private land, avoiding approximately 15 million tons of emissions over the next 25 years.

Project #3 (first to VCS validation)

A Tasmanian Improved Forestry Management Project

The project is designed to protect 7 666 hectares of native Tasmanian forest which would, if not for the project, continue to undergo selective logging or be clear-felled and converted to pasture. It was the first Improved Forest Management project in the world to be validated and verified under the Verified Carbon Standard.

The project is located in the Central Highlands of Tasmania, Australia. The landowners have historically implemented a regime of selective logging and clearfelling for conversion to pasture and plantation on most of the forest on their land. Protection of the forest, utilising carbon finance, will prevent the emissions generated from logging and allow the forest to approach its pre-logged conditions.

Project #1 (first to CCB validation)

A Tasmanian Improved Forestry Management Project

Redd Forests’ pilot project is intended as a proof-of-concept. It protects 865 hectares of native Tasmanian forest which would, if not for the project, continue to undergo selective logging or be clear-felled and converted to pasture. It was the first project in the world to be validated under the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standard (second edition); and the first forest carbon project in the world to be validated under both the VCS and CCB Standards.

The project is located in the Northern Midlands of Tasmania, Australia. The landowners have historically implemented selective logging and clearfell with natural regeneration across the property. Protection of the forest, utilising carbon finance, prevents the emissions generated from logging and allow the forest to approach its pre-logged conditions. The pilot project also demonstrates convincingly the financial and environmental attractiveness of carbon-financed forest conservation.