REDD Resource Page
Wildlife Works is the world's leading REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) project development and management company with a unique approach to applying innovative market based solutions to the conservation of biodiversity.
We have established a successful model that uses the emerging marketplace for REDD Carbon Offsets as a sustainable and scalable funding mechanism for biodiverse forest protection and to help local landowners in the developing world monetize their forest and biodiversity assets whether they are governments, communities, ownership groups or private individuals.
Our flagship “Kasigau Corridor REDD project” protects over 500,000 acres of forest and brings the benefits of direct carbon financing to Kenyan communities while also securing the entire wildlife migration corridor between Tsavo East and Tsavo West National Parks.
Wildlife Works is the world's first to deliver validated, verified and issued VCS REDD carbon credits.
We are actively developing a portfolio of additional REDD projects in Africa with an aim to protect 5 Million hectares of native forest that will mitigate 25 million tons of CO2 emissions annually and create thousands of sustainable jobs for rural Africans.
DOCUMENTS:
Download the Kasigau Corridor REDD Project Phase II VCS Project Description (PD) here.
(PDF format)
Download the Kasigau Corridor REDD Project Phase II CCB Project Design Document (PDD) here.
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Download the Kasigau Corridor REDD Project Phase I Project Design Document (PDD) for CCB here.
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Download the Kasigau Corridor REDD Project Phase 1 Product Description (PD) for VCS here.Â
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Download the VCS methodology (v1.1) here.Â
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SOFTWARE
Wildlife Works Carbon LLC and EcoPartners LLC collaborated to author the industry's pioneering dryland / mosaic REDD+ methodology, VM0009, "Methodology for Avoided Mosaic Deforestation of Tropical Forests, v1.1" . The methodology was developed in response to other methodologies requiring the use of cloud-free, flawless historical imagery. Realizing that quite frankly, most REDD+ projects are located in places where it rains a lot, we designed a methodology allowing the developer to use any sort of imagery from any date with any level of cloud contamination (as long as it is geo-registered), thereby alleviating the constraint to find multiple years of "wall-to-wall" cloud-free imagery, or worse yet, to perform difficult and time-consuming cloud removal techniques that very few people know how to do correctly. Using VM0009, the developer is free to throw multiple image types and dates into the proverbial "pot", thereby opening up the possibilities for extremely robust historical deforestation analysis, rather than attempting to develop an historical model based a couple of data points. To enable the completion of VM0009, Section 6, "Baseline Scenario", Wildlife Works developed a set of GIS-based tools, which when bolted to ArcGIS 10 as a single, elegant toolbar, offers an extremely powerful suite of support tools which facilitate the historical deforestation modeling process described in VM0009. In fact, we don't recommend attempting to perform the process described in VM0009, Section 6 without this software.
How much does this software cost, you might ask? Nothing! We are offering the WW toolbar for free for any developer who wishes to use our methodology. The package comes with easy to use installation files and is accompanied by a robust instruction manual, including installation directions. This is not a free trial... the software will always be free to fellow developers who wish to use VM0009.
Thanks for considering Wildlife Works' methodology for your project. We hope you find it to be as elegant and effective a solution to the REDD+ challenge as we do!
All the Best,
Jeremy Freund
VP Carbon Development
P.S. Please stay tuned for a forthcoming methodology revision funded by Wildlife Works that will, amongst other things, feature a "spatial" mode to address frontier-type deforestation!
