San Pablo del Lago reforestation project

San Pablo del Lago reforestation project

Ecuador

Certification: Gold Standard

Progress

Size

Small Scale

Tons of CO2 captured

3550

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Sustainable Development Goals

How it works

San Pablo del Lago Agroforestry is a climate change mitigation project, developed since 2012 with the communities that are settled in the hydrographic basin of Lake San Pablo and impact area in the province of Imbabura. The project’s activities include the planting of 3 reforestation systems (Commercial plantations, Agroforestry and Assisted Natural Regeneration), in addition to the conservation of existing paramos. The goal of the project is to plant 563 ha of new forests in the San Pablo Lake Watershed and impact area together with the conservation of 100 ha of paramo.

2000

Hectares saved

200

People involved

15

Protected animal species

5

Preserved plant species