The earth\'s vegetation and soils contain more carbon than that contained in all remaining oil stocks
The earth\'s vegetation and soils contain more carbon than that contained in all remaining oil stocks
Our projects - Peru
Timber piled ready for charcoal burning.
Location
Dakatcha, Kenya
Partners
A Rocha Kenya
Offsets
6 million tones CO2
The Dakatcha Woodland is an area of 38,000ha of dry East African forest north of Mombasa. It is home to rare birds found nowhere else in the world. Recently it has become the target of charcoal burners who are cutting down the large trees to make charcoal for cooking fires in the towns. Substantial areas have been cut down in the last two years. From a climate change point of view this is a double whammy because the charcoal-making process is a very inefficient one which produces a lot of CO2 for relatively little charcoal. At the same time we are loosing the potential to absorb CO2 as these trees grow.
The project aims to reduce the deforestation by educating local people about the benefits of the forest and conservation agriculture as well as providing them with alternative incomes such as bee keeping and woodlots.