Community guidelines for accessing forestry voluntary carbon ... - FAO

Chapter 2: VCM project types and standards
• Can these management activities be improved?
Change the current logging practices that lead to degradation
Improve roads and extraction routes
Change how trees are managed and harvested
Conserve (more) areas of natural authenticity and protect
biodiversity
Reduce the impact of logging on the forest environment
• What will the improvement of the forest management yield?
In terms of carbon
In terms of co-benefits
Box 5: IFM case study: INFAPRO,
Rehabilitation of logged-over Dipterocarp forest
Sabah, Malaysia
This project is taking place in an area of 25 000 ha of native forest
which was heavily logged in the 1970s and 80s. Even 30 years after
logging operations ceased, the forest has hardly recovered because
no thought was given to this during harvesting operations. The
Yayasan Sabah Foundation, together with the Dutch company FACE
the Future, has therefore started an IFM project which takes the area
out of production and implements management techniques designed
to restore the mature native forest ecosystem.
INFAPRO is the first IFM project in the world to be registered under the
Verified Carbon Standards (VCS). The project has been in operation since
1992, but has only recently registered under the VCS so that it can finance
ongoing operations through the VCM. The methodology is based around
enrichment planting of indigenous dipterocarps and fast-growing pioneers
to kick-start ecosystem recovery and achieve quick gains in biomass.
Extensive planting of native fruit trees is also an important aspect of the
project, to encourage native animals, including orang-utans, to move back
into the area. The project is located next to the Danum Valley Conservation
Area, an important biodiversity hotspot in Borneo.
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