Southern Cardamom REDD+ Forest Protection
REDD+
Forestry
プロジェクト概要
This project is designed to promote climate change mitigation and adaptation, maintain biodiversity, and create alternative livelihoods. The 445,339 ha area includes parts of Southern Cardamom National Park and Tatai Wildlife Sanctuary in Cambodia and protects a critical part of the Cardamom Mountains Rainforest Ecoregion—one of the 200 most important locations for biodiversity conservation on the planet.
The project’s climate benefits include avoided emissions of approximately 12 million tCO2e during this first monitoring period and over 115,000 million tCO2e over the project's lifetime. It also generates important biodiversity and community co-benefits, including new and sustainable livelihood opportunities from direct employment and alternative income generating activities (IGAs) to initiatives to stimulate investment in businesses. These opportunities will be designed to reduce pressure on the environment while significantly increasing community well-being.
Additional programs will address food security, improve health and education facilities, as well as raise environmental awareness. Biodiversity co-benefits get a greater protection of the ecosystem predominantly by means of increased security and improved monitoring. The project also protects critical habitat for significant populations of many IUCN-listed species—including the Asian elephant, Asiatic black bear, sun bear, large spotted civet, clouded leopard, and dhole—as well as the critically endangered Siamese crocodile and southern river terrapin.