WHAT IS
RIMBA RAYA?
Rimba Raya is a living example
of an economically viable
alternative to deforestation.
Rimba Raya is the largest REDD+ project in the world, in terms of avoided emissions delivered to date, protecting nearly 65,000 hectares of peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo and avoiding more than 130 million tonnes of carbon emissions.
Rimba Raya is also the world’s largest privately-funded orangutan sanctuary.
Rimba Raya developes livelihood programmes in surrounding villages (addressing all 17 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals) to provide education, employment and hope for the future.
Rimba Raya is an InfiniteEARTH Project.
Rimba Raya was the first validated REDD+ project – ever – under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and helped define the criteria by which all projects are measured.
We were also the first REDD+ forest-carbon project in the world to receive triple-gold validation under the Climate Community and Biodiversity Alliance Standard (CCBA)
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Rimba Raya, nearly the size of Singapore, protects one of the most highly endangered ecosystems in the world.
We form a vital patrolled buffer zone between the ever-encroaching bulldozers of the palm oil industry and the Tanjung Puting National Park, home to one of the last remaining wild populations of orangutans on earth.
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OUR MISSION
At Rimba Raya, we partner with local communities to develop solutions which provide sustainable growth of the economy while protecting and preserving limited and vulnerable natural resources.
We strive for operational exceptionalism across three industry standard measures:
OUR EFFORTS MATTER
Our measurable contribution to emission avoidance
is the equivalent of removing one million cars from the world’s highways every year for the next 30 years.
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The Amazon rainforest is not built for fire.
What the Amazon fires mean for wild animals
nationalgeographic.com
“In the Amazon, nothing is adapted to fire.” 10 percent of Earth’s animal species live there.Severe fires aren't just happening in Amazon....Siberia is on fire too! 😭
'Black carbon particles from forest Siberian forest fires, fall down to the arctic ice'.
Forest fires in Siberia, sending ash into the Arctic.
severe-weather.eu
As the fires in the Amazon forest continue, across the world in the north hemisphere, severe forest fires are also raging in Siberia. Just like the Amazon, Siberia also has its own fire season, which ...DISCUSSION IS NECESSARY
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We have many reasons to do what we do. We help support a community of 14 villages & we protect the biodiversity in this corner of Indonesian Borneo. Putri is a mum who was released into our Camp Rimba, she's thriving in the freedom of our forest and has an adorable son now! 😍
16,500 new mangroves have a new home! As you can imagine, it wasn't easy planting them, but the long-term benefits make the challenge worth it! #BlueCarbon #MangrovePlanting #MarineBiodiversity #Mangroves #Conservation #CommunityEffort #CommunityIncome #BeTheChange
