Forest on Colombia’s Pacific coast. Giving families an income that does not depend on logging.

Why Colombia’s Pacific coast

Colombia is one of the richest countries on Earth for wildlife. It holds an estimated 10% of the world’s plant and animal species, and it is one of only 12 countries counted as megadiverse.

The Pacific Region is a large part of that. On its own it is home to 831 kinds of bird, 195 amphibians, 167 mammals, 210 reptiles and 5,124 plant species.

The project sits inside this region, in an area known as the Chocó-Darién bioregion. Ecologi’s page puts the rich wildlife of the project area down to its yearly rainfall and varied landscape.

What is going wrong

The forests here have been losing trees year after year. The main cause is illegal logging.

For a long time these forests have been an important source of income for local families. When money is short, they cut timber.

How the project cuts emissions

A forest holds carbon in its trees and soil. Cutting it down or thinning it out releases that carbon as carbon dioxide. Ecologi calls this a REDD+ avoided deforestation project, meaning it cuts emissions by reducing deforestation and forest damage.

It works at a local level, on the causes of the logging. Ecologi’s page lists three kinds of action.

• Clearer rights to the land. The project supports local government of the land, including property titles for individuals, plans for how land is used, and marked-out conservation zones.
• Other ways to earn. It helps to set up new economic activities and sources of income, so that families rely less on timber.
• Skills to run things. It trains local people in administration and management.

What the project expects to achieve

With less illegal logging, damaged forest can recover and less land is turned over to other uses. Ecologi’s page expects this to cut emissions and build up the carbon stored in the forest over time. It does not give a yearly tonnage for the project, and it does not publish a dated record of results, so we do not give figures here.

The page sets out three goals: slowing climate change, conserving wildlife, and supporting the sustainable development of local communities. For wildlife, the aim is a larger and better connected area of natural forest in the long term.

For people, the project invests in development planning, water treatment and health care, as well as promoting sustainable sources of income.

How the project is checked

We do not choose or run the projects ourselves. They are selected by Ecologi, and this one carries Ecologi’s “Carbon Project Ecologi Approved” mark.

It is certified by outside standards as well. Ecologi states that the project is verified under the Verified Carbon Standard and the Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards, and links to its entry on the Verra registry, project 1395.

The project is also monitored by Pachama, a company that works with Ecologi, and the page links to Pachama’s public monitoring of it.

The page does not name the organisation that developed the project, so we do not name one here.

What Printlogik has funded here

Ecologi’s public record names this project among those that Printlogik’s contributions have gone to through the Print A Tree Project. Ecologi does not publish a figure for how much carbon we have funded at each project, so we cannot give one for this forest.

What Ecologi does publish is our total across all the carbon projects we have supported. That total is shown on the Print A Tree page.

Ecologi now lists this project as previously funded, which means it is no longer taking contributions for it. Every order we print still makes a contribution through Ecologi, and that goes to the projects it supports today.

How your order gets here

1. You order printAny order, of any size. There is nothing to tick and nothing extra to pay.
2. We make a contributionEach invoice triggers a contribution from Printlogik to Ecologi.
3. Emissions are cutEcologi funds projects like this one, and records what we have funded in public.

The UN global goals it supports

The United Nations has set 17 Sustainable Development Goals for a fairer, healthier planet by 2030. Ecologi records this project as supporting 6 of them.

• 1No poverty
• 2Zero hunger
• 4Quality education
• 5Gender equality
• 8Decent work and economic growth
• 13Climate action

Where it is

Buenaventura, Colombia · 4.8°N, 77.7°W

Location	Buenaventura, Colombia
Type of project	Forest protection
Status	Ecologi lists it as previously funded and no longer takes contributions for it
Full record	See it on Ecologi