About the project
The Aripuana River Valley project promotes the welfare of 1,500 traditional community residents and indigenous people by improving infrastructure, education, health, housing, water, energy, communication, community organization, empowering young women, youth, and elderly, and encouraging sustainable use of natural resources. Supports special community research and development projects. Project implemented in and around poor and lower income communities in the areas of: RDS Rio Madeira, RDS Juma, Flona Aripuanã, and APA.
The project owner holds exclusive and long- term carbon credits and credit rights resulting from the active protection, conservation, and management of over 500,000 hectares of richly forested Amazon Rain Forest land in Brazil, which is subject to ongoing agricultural and livestock pressures.