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Orbify Review - Manoa REDD+ Project

Orbify Review

Manoa REDD+ Project

Last edited: August 3, 2023

Published: June 12, 2023

Orbify Team

Orbify Team

Earth Intelligence Specialists

In the Orbify Review, we pick a VCM project from one of the credible registries and review it using our geospatial data platform (GDP) to validate or correct the figures presented in the project’s design documents.


PROJECT INFORMATION

For this Review, we've selected the MANOA REDD+ PROJECT located at Manoa Farm, city of Cujubim, state of Rondônia - Brazil. The project is developed by Biofilica Investimentos and Grupo Triângulo, and listed on Verra Registry.

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Manoa REDD+ Project is a partnership between Biofílica and Grupo Triângulo, located at Manoa Farm, city of Cujubim, state of Rondônia, in an area of 74.038,7 hectares. Throughout its almost 30 years of history, Manoa has improved its management techniques, becoming a model of worldwide reference of forest exploration allied with the conservation of nature.

The farm's 73,000 hectares of forest demonstrates the pioneering in sustainable forest management, and is one of the few forest areas remaining in private areas in the region, constantly threatened by invasions and timber theft. Manoa is of paramount importance in the landscape connectivity, as it is close to conservation units and provides shelter for several species.

Manoa Project will carry on the following actions to reduce deforestation and consequently reduce emissions:


Essential Geospatial Indicators

After uploading the shapefile on GDP and selecting the dates of the analysis we can see the dashboard and map with the indicators. For this particular example we choose the dates to cover the data from 2020.12.31 until 2023.06.01. Lets have look of the change analysis derived with GDP:

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Data for the deforestation in the reference area. We need to show data 2003-2013. 10 years before the project starts.

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Reference area in 2005

The year 2005 was the one with the highest deforestation during the baseline period(10 years before the project started 2003-2013). A year that saw over 14000 ha of forest disappear. The deforestation in the reference area follows a typical Brazilian pattern: first the access road, is cut, than the side roads branch off and square patches of forest disappear as the incursion progress.

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Project Area as of May 2023. Image taken by Planet’s Labs ~3.5 m spatial resolution.
It seems that conservation efforts are successful: no visible deforestation in the region- almost all of the project’s area is covered by forest.

In this review we took a project from Verra's catalogue and using Orbify platform demonstrated how Earth Observation data can help at all stages of planning, monitoring and verification of the REDD project. The EO provides project managers to track the progress of forest management methodologies as well as monitoring the illegal activities that this REDD project is supposed to be mitigating.

Source: Project Description 1571

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