The Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve REDD Project

MBK (Micro-­‐Credit)Potters for Peace (low tech, clean water systems)Interviews with the communities and their leaders within theProject Zone have shown that the programs listed above meetand exceed the needs and expectations of the commununities.Additionally, they far exceed their current conditions as well asthe benefits provided or promised by the Palm Oil industry.See section CM1 below for a full description of the project’sSocial Programs aimed at mitigating leakage.The project proponents will leverage the 5-­‐year success recordthat the Orangutan Foundation International and WorldEducation have within the Project Zone with regard to providingsocial benefits programs in exchange for conservation. Through aUSAID grant, OFI and WE have provided agricultural andconservation educational services to the major communitieswithin the Project Zone and have built significant goodwill and“buy-­‐in” from the communities. Their work has laid an excellentfoundation of community support for the Rimba Raya project.Leakage Mitigation through “Physical Barriers”Satellite imagery of the Tanjung Puting National Park reveals thatthe northwestern quadrant houses the most intact and pristineforests left in the park. Other areas of the park have beenseriously degraded by human activities such as illegal logging,fires and poaching.This is not an anomaly or simply nature’s design. For over 14,000continuous days, Dr. Biruté Galdikas and her dedicated staff havephysically occupied and defended the forests in that area of thepark as part of their unyielding fight to save the EndangeredBornean Orangutan. The formula is simple in design: Build GuardPosts at every access point, staff them 24 hrs a day with reliableand dedicated personnel, send out regular patrols, keep a checkon fires, work closely with the Forestry Department, and alwayskeep up the pressure.See sections G3.2 and G3.5 for a more detailed description of theGuard Post Network and Fire Plans.The forests of Borneo are vast and remote. Deforestation occursbecause of lack of interest, lack of vigilance, lack of enforcementand lack of alternatives. InfiniteEARTH and its partners will fillthese voids.CL2.3. Net Leakage Impacts and Leakage BufferSubtract any likely project-­‐related unmitigated negative offsite climateimpacts from the climate benefits being claimed by the project anddemonstrate that this has been included in the evaluation of net climateimpact of the project (as calculated in CL1.4).Due to the nature of the project and its activities, there are noidentifiable unmitigated offsite climate impacts resulting fromproject activities. Positive climate impacts do not rely ontechnologies or activities that produce emissions in such a waythat unmitigated primary or secondary leakage is likely to occur.Unexpected offsite impacts are actively mitigated throughpreventive activities onsite, within the project area through thescope of designated project activities.Given this, unmitigated leakage has a value of “0” and netclimate impacts remain unchanged. Net climate impacts,continues to be defined as defined in CL. 1.4.233