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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InfiniteEARTH’s Rimba Raya Biodiversity Reserve achieved another major milestone in September 2020, becoming the first REDD+ project in the world to be audited for SDG (UN Sustainable Development Goal) compliance under the SD Vista Standard – achieving the highest possible rating of contributing to all 17 UN SDGs.
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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We are the first project to have a verified SDG compliance rating for all 17 of the UN SDGs!
An enormous achievement and one we are very proud of.
“This is a critical milestone. By successfully completing the registration and successful verification of monitored results under SD VISta, Rimba Raya has shown how projects can track progress against the SDGs in a rigorous and workable manner,” said David Antonioli, CEO of Verra.
Rimba Raya Becomes First Registered SD VISta Project - Verra
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Congratulations @Rimba_Raya_ on achieving this milestone and for your great work in restoring degraded #forests in Central Kalimantan. https://twitter.com/Rimba_Raya_/status/1308081116142804992
Verified under the SD VISta program as working towards all 17 of the UN SDGs. We are very proud. https://twitter.com/Infinite_Earth_/status/1308080445318365184
Our herbarium nursery is an incubator for hope where thousands of healthy native seedlings are grown. After collecting suitable seeds from the field, the nursery staff propagate and grow them with care in order to plant them in restoration sites.
