BIOCORREDOR MARTIN SAGRADO REDD+ PROJECT Project Design Document Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation San Martin Department, Peru A Community Forestry Initiative for Carbon and Biodiversity Conservation and Poverty Reduction Version 4.0 – December 2012 PROJECT DEVELOPER TECHNICAL PARTNER FOR IMPLEMENTATION 1 PROJECT DESIGN DOCUMENT FOR REDUCING EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION AND FOREST DEGRADATION (REDD) Table of Contents I. GENERAL INFORMATION II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY III. GENERAL SECTION G1. Original Conditions at the Project Site G2. Baseline Projections G3. Project Design and Goals G4. Management Capacity G5. Land Tenure and legal status G6. Adaptive Management for Sustainability G7. Knowledge Dissemination IV. CLIMATE SECTION CL1. Net Positive Climate Impacts CL2. Offsite Climate Impacts (“Leakage”) CL3. Climate Impact Monitoring CL4. Adapting to Climate Change and Climate Variability CL5. Carbon Benefits Withheld from Regulatory Markets V. COMMUNITY SECTION CM1. Net Positive Community Impacts CM2. Offsite Community Impacts CM3. Community Impact Monitoring CM4. Capacity Building CM5. Best Practices in Community Involvement VI. BIODIVERSITY SECTION B1. Net Positive Impacts B2. Offsite Biodiversity Impacts B3. Biodiversity Impact Monitoring B4. Use of Native Species B5. Water and Soil Resource Enhancement VII. GOLD LEVEL SECTION GL1. Climate Change Adaption Benefits GL2. Exceptional Community Benefits GL3. Exceptional Biodiversity Benefits 2 I. GENERAL INFORMATION Location of the project Country: Peru Department: San Martin Nearest City: Juan Jui, Provinces of Mariscal Caceres and Huallaga Precise location of project activities: Located in the western part of San Martín Region of Peru, in the basin of Huayabamba river, the project area extends over 303 699 hectares, constituded by three land concessions with conservation purposes: Martin Sagrado, El Breo, Montecristo. It is next to the Rio Abiseo National Park and Abiseo – Pajaten area. Project Developer – Project Identification, Design, Monitoring, and Commercialization PUR PROJET (The Pure Project) Name of contact person: Pierric Jammes Title: General Manager Adress: 20 passage de la bonne graine, 75011 Paris, France E-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Pur Projet is the project proponent, at the initiative of the REDD+ project. Pur Projet has been present in San Martin region and in the project zone since 2008, starting with the development of community reforestation programs. Pur Projet started the REDD+ project in 2010. Local Implementing Organization FUNDACION AMAZONIA VIVA Name of contact person: Roldan Rojas Paredes Title: General Manager Adress: Juanjui San Martin, Peru Telephone number: + 51 944668860 E-mail: [email protected] The Fundacion Amazonia Viva, created at Pur Projet’s initiative, and constituted by the different community associations involved in the project, is responsible for the local project coordination and technical coordination of field activities. (Note: The Fundacion Amazonia Viva was first created as “San Martin Verde”, both names can still be found in communication material) Other Implementing Partners Cooperativa Agraria Cacaotera Acopagro (ACOPAGRO) Name of contact person: Gonzalo Rios Nunez Title: General Manager Adress: Jiron Arica # 284, Juanjui San Martin Departamento, Peru Telephone number: + 51 42 545190 Fax: + 51 42 942695767 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.acopagro.com.pe 3 Association de Proteccion de bosques Comunales Dos de Mayo (EL BREO) Name of contact person: Sr. Tiberio López Vásquez Title: President of the association Adress: Dos De Mayo, San Martin Departamento, Peru Asociacion de Productores Agropecuarios de Huicungo (APAHUI) Name of contact person: Essari Alejandro Plasencia Culqui Title: General Manager Adress: Huicungo San Martin Departamento, Peru Telephone number: + 51 942901431 E-mail: [email protected] Reforesta Peru (REFORESTA) Name of contact person: Ing. Enrique Toledo Title: Founder and General Manager Adress: Tarapoto, Peru Website: http:// www.reforestaperu.com.pe Technical Partners ONF International (ONFI) Name of contact person: Marie Calmel Title: REDD+ Project Officer Address: 2 avenue de Saint-Mandé 75012 Paris, France Telephone Number: + 33 1 40 19 58 31 Fax: +33 1 43 07 87 35 E-mail: [email protected] Website: http://www.onfinternational.org 4 II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Historical Context Peru has the third largest extent of tropical rainforests in the world, after Brazil and the Democratic Republic of Congo. These forests are some of the richest in the world, both in terms of biological diversity and natural resources (timber, energy, mineral resources). Peruvian forests are under great pressure. About half of Peru is forested. Of this, more than 80 percent is classified as primary forest, the most biodiverse and carbon-dense form of forest. The FAO estimates that the country loses around 269 000 hectares of forest per year, giving it an annual deforestation rate of 0.4 percent (1990-2000). An estimated 3.1% of its forest cover or around 2,164,000 ha has already been lost between 1990 and 20001. Most of this deforestation is the result of subsistence agriculture, which can largely be attributed to the migration of farmers from the highlands taking advantage of Peru's land-tenure law which allows people to own land by occupying it for five years. Deforestation and degradation are also increasingly the result of development activities, especially logging, commercial agriculture, mining, gas and oil operations, and infrastructure construction. A growing number of organizations in the department have been trying to protect the remaining natural forests as community forestry areas, but they all lack of financial means. Project sites include large tracts of healthy closed-canopy forests, as well as degraded forests suitable for restoration and assisted natural management. Table 1 : Peru Forest Figures Forest area Total forest area, 2000 65,215,000 ha % of land area 50.9% Area per capita 2.6 ha Forest plantations 640 000 ha Forest cover change, 1990-2000 Annual change in forest cover -269 000 ha Annual rate of change -0.4% Forest types, volumes and biomass Forest types (% of country’s forest Tropical 100% area) Wood volume in forests 158 m3 / ha, i.e. 10 304 million m3 in total Wood biomass in forests 245 tonnes / ha, i.e. 15 978 million tonnes in total 1 FAO, State of the World’s Forests, 2005 5 Number of tree species in IUCN Red list Number of native tree species 2,500 Critically endangered 33 Endangered 14 Vulnerable 54 International Conventions and Agreements Ratification as of 1 December 2004 CBD, UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, CCD, CITES, Ramsar Convention, World Heritage Convention Source: State of the World’s Forests, FAO, 2005 The “Biocorredor Martin Sagrado” REDD+ Project The Biocorredor Martin Sagrado Project for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Deforestation (“Biocorredor Martin Sagrado REDD+ Project”) aims to address deforestation and its resulting emission of greenhouse gases (GHG) in an area of the Department of San Martin, which is under land use pressure. The objectives of the Biocorredor Martin Sagrado Project are to protect forests with high conservation value. The project seeks to protect species in risk of extinction while also improving the quality of life of the families that live in these areas. The Biocorredor Martin Sagrado project area encompasses 295 654 hectares of Amazonian forest located alongside the Huayabamba river. Its creation and effective implementation are from PUR PROJET and Fundacion Amazonia Viva initiatives, in the aim to create a financial mechanism for generating a financial compensation from activities reducing emissions from deforestation (REDD+). The project started in January 2010, as a complementary strategy to the Alto Huayabamba reforestation project, in which PUR PROJET and ACOPAGRO are committed (since 2008), with a plan to replant more than 2,000,000 trees by 2012. This Martin Sagrado project supports indeed sustainable forest management, agro-forestry, non timber activities and livelihood development in the reserve by providing financing through carbon credits generated from forest protection and regeneration. The project creates a 80-year income stream that will directly enhance household livelihoods and natural resource management capacity. The project seeks to maintain and increase carbon stocks in the area, enhancing the hydrology, as well as conserving biodiversity and endangered species. Carbon financing will be used to support rural communities to develop a range of livelihood activities including non-timber forest products (NTFP), improved agro-forestry activities and productivity intensification, community-based ecotourism infrastructure, micro-credit and communication walkways development as well as other economic, social, cultural and environmental activities. The additional resources raised from the sale of these credits will permit to implement all of the measures necessary to control and monitor deforestation within the project site, enforce the law, and improve the welfare of local communities. From the start of the project, mobilizing of the community to protect forests has demonstrated effectiveness in halting deforestation and degradation in community forestry areas. Community members 6 have expressed strong interests in developing activities to better preserve their land and avoid deforestation. They have listed the projected activities they are wishing to develop with