Green Gold Forestry
Using integrated forest management and protection in the Peruvian Amazon to develop nature-positive economies and sustainable livelihood alternatives
Transforming logging concessions into thriving conservation projects
As climate change and deforestation continue threatening critical ecosystems in the Amazon, it is vital to reduce those threats by supporting efforts that conserve and restore areas with high conservation value.
Green Gold Forestry’s model demonstrates how large forest concessions in the Peruvian Amazon can transition from logging to new revenue streams that are positive for biodiversity and the ecosystem. This ensures alternative livelihood incomes for forest communities as well as their resilience.
Demonstrating the value of carbon and livelihood co-benefits and associated dual revenue streams
Green Gold Forestry is a conservation forestry company dedicated to the sustainable use of resources from the Amazon. Based in the Loreto Region of Peru’s northern Amazon, despite initiating its life as a timber company, GGF transformed from an extractive timber business to a regenerative business model focused on carbon offsetting and the commercialization of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) that value standing forest. With an established carbon credit business, GGF can to develop new value chains based on NTFPs that directly engage local communities, including the extraction of aguaje and acai oils for use in the cosmetic and skincare industries.
THE INVESTMENTS
CI Ventures has extended a US$ 250,000 loan to purchase machinery and solar energy equipment to power the oil producing facility in Santa Clotilde, an Amazonian town near their concessions. Having this facility will allow the company to produce high quality oils from aguaje and acai for export, and will generate alternative livelihoods that are desperately needed in the 14 local communities near the company’s concessions. .
CIV’s investment in GGF would allow it to influence how a high quality carbon project can develop alternative value chains with the help of local communities and Indigenous groups, thus ensuring best practices are followed as collaborative value chains with Amazonian communities are developed.
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Targeted Investment Impacts
This CIV investment is expected to deliver the following impacts:
95 jobs created in local communities, with 100% of new employees coming from these communities.
2,500 hectares of Amazon swamplands under sustainable management and production
1600 tons of aguaje and acai processed annually
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