Tahuamanu Amazon REDD Project

Audit Analysis

This is a registered REDD avoidance project with VVB-confirmed additionality and a quantified leakage deduction of 0%, but the file shows several material documentation gaps and a reported reversal-related deforestation event that was judged not to be a reversal. Overall confidence is limited by low extraction quality, multiple corrective actions, and contradictions across documents on key items such as leakage treatment, FPIC, and the crediting period.

Project Description

The proposed project is based on the enhancement and strengthening of the sustainable forest management of a consolidated group of forest concessions managed by a local company with long forest tradition, MADERACRE SAC, who also has previous successful experience with REDD+. The whole area managed by MADERACRE SAC, including the current proposed project area and others already VCS/CCB verified, are FSC certified, which guarantees that logging activities are being done under adequate techniques. The area faces increasing threats from unsustainable agrarian practices from neighbouring local religious communities and others. To deal with it, the project plans to combine an increase in protection measures (patrolling, working together with other forest concessions and the forest and political authorities) with the promotion of productive activities for neighbouring communities, as a strategy to offer alternative sources of income that do not imply the clearing of forest areas. Based on this approach, the project expects to reduce projected deforestation. The project is located in Madre de Dios, a region in the south-east of the Peruvian Amazon with the most accelerated deforestation rate of Peru.

Red Flags

• ⚠ The verification report lists many material findings and multiple corrective actions, including concerns about project longevity, baseline reassessment, armed patrol disclosures, and biodiversity impacts.
• ⚠ A deforestation event was reported in the monitoring results, and the report explains why it was not treated as a reversal, which still raises permanence risk.
• ⚠ Several key fields are missing or not stated in available documents, including total ERR figures, usage monitoring details, and FNRB values.

Credit Vintages

Cosa migliorerebbe questo punteggio

• Publish a complete, internally consistent MRV package with clearly stated total ERR claimed and verified, usage monitoring details, and FNRB assumptions.
• Resolve the remaining verification findings by documenting permanence safeguards, armed patrol and stakeholder-risk handling, and a clearer baseline reassessment rationale.

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