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TIST Program in Kenya - VCS 009

TIST Small Groups have planted over ten million trees in Tanzania, India, Kenya, Uganda, Nicaragua, and Honduras - accomplishing GhG sequestration through tree planting, creating a potential long-term income stream, and developing sustainable environments and livelihoods. The trees planted in tens of thousands of discrete groves and land parcels are already beginning to reduce erosion, stabilize and enrich the soil, and will soon be providing shade. The TIST reforestation project in Kenya VCS 009 applies to 1,726 of the Small Groups, 12,433 members, 5,654 project areas and 2724.0 ha. 

Chyulu Hills REDD+ Project

Designed to promote climate change mitigation / adaptation, restore biodiversity and create alternative livelihoods. It is located in southeastern Kenya and stretches over an area of 410,533.84 ha. This project presents a broad ecosystem approach, including REDD+, to provide long-term sustainable financing and management to maintain the ecological integrity of an iconic African landscape. The project will help to protect a very high value wildlife and biodiversity area while supporting the development needs of indigenous and other local communities.

Darkwoods Forest Carbon Project 

This Sustainable Development Verified Impact Standard (SD VISta) Project achieves net GHG emission reductions and removals through the avoidance of emissions due to logging in the baseline scenario. The project scenario is conservation management activities, wherein the Nature Conservancy of Canada undertakes the carbon project and ecosystem protection and enhancement activities. The project scenario anticipates a low level of timber removal as part of conservation management activities for ecosystem/habitat enhancement and risk management.