Short Story

In the Chocó region, the HARLEQUIN REDD+ project, led by Community Councils ACISANP, COCOILLO, and COCOMACER in partnership with BIOFIX, aims to protect 74,746 hectares of tropical forest. They focus on reducing deforestation and forest degradation while promoting reforestation and sustainable agriculture with local crops like annatto seed, cassava, and cacao. The project also emphasizes environmental education, tourism promotion, and infrastructure improvements for community well-being.

ARLEQUIN RED+

Hectares of forest protected

People Benefit

CO2- Offset (ton)

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Story

Its name honors the Harlequin frog, an exotic species endangered by extinction. This conservation project covers 74,746 hectares of tropical moist forest in the Chocó biogeographic area. The project, ARLEQUIN REDD+, is led by the Community Councils ACISANP, COCOILLO, and COCOMACER, in partnership with BIOFIX. They aim to minimize the impact their communities have on deforestation and forest degradation.

The project includes initiatives such as reforestation of degraded ecosystems, strengthening of the agricultural sector with local products like annatto seed, cassava, Chinese potato, cacao, medicinal plants, banana, and sacha inchi, and modernization of rice processing. Other efforts include promoting environmental education and tourism, implementing appropriate cooking technologies, and improving infrastructure and equipment in mobility, health, housing, and recreation.

Location

Certegui/Lloró/ Canton de San Pablo (Chocó)

Year of start

2015

certification

Cercarbono

State

Implementation

Biome

Pacific / Tropical Wet Forest

Hectares eligible

74.746

Reduction of net emissions

270.859

Validator

AENOR

Proponents

Community council Comprehensive Lloró – COCOILLO.
Consejo Comunitario mayor of black communities, raizal and palenquero of the municipality of Cértegui – COCOMACER.
Consejo Comunitario mayor of Canton of St. Paul – ACISANP.

Year Validation

2020

INDICATORS OF IMPLEMENTATION

Strengthening the chain of rice / Strengthening of productive Projects

Objective: Build a processing plant for rice producers.

Indicator: Total number of people benefited.

People: 45

Verifier