Conservation Carbon Company
Our Projects
Hiniduma, Sri Lanka, A Pioneering Analog Forestry Project
Photo Gallery, Hiniduma, Sri Lanka, Carbon ProjectHiniduma, in the southwest of Sri Lanka, is a mixed agricultural community surrounded by one the island’s last remaining rainforest ecosystems. The World Heritage Forests of Singharaja and Kanneliya, along with numerous related forest fragments, all lie within 10km of this small village. Together, they account for more than 60 percent of the country’s surviving primary rainforest cover, and are under extreme threat from further fragmentation.
These natural refuges are severely threatened by human encroachment. Sri Lanka is one of the most densely populated countries of the world, and its remaining forest ecosystems are under constant pressure from economic activity and other human-induced stresses. Around Hiniduma, the need to integrate community development with conservation is pressing.
Rebuilding the forests
CCC has identified partners in forest-edge communities along the Kanneliya Reserve buffer zone. Together with them, we have instituted the Hiniduma Conservation Carbon Programme, which will grow more endemic forest trees to protect the forest buffer zone against fragmentation and eventually reverse the process of shrinkage.
Benefits to people
Community benefits such as agricultural training, plantation management payments and support for crop diversification are provided by the project. We expect our farmers to increase their household income 25 percent within the first three years due to value-added crops and multiple cropping cycles.
Talatuduwa Monastary Koggala
The Talathuduwa Monastery and temple is located on a 24 acre island on the Koggala Lagoon in the Galle district in the south of Sri Lanka. Local priests and the Koggala community established the Monastery over a century ago. The monastery is an important point of education for young monks from all around the country who are initiated into the Ramanya Nikaya one of the two prevalent Buddhist sects in the country. The Monastery provides the young monks a place to study scriptures and reside during their progression to become a Buddhist priest.
While the Ramanya Nikaya practices Theravada Buddhism the sect is a more monastic style of Buddhism and one, which is closely, linked to the natural systems especially forest systems. All around Sri Lanka monks from the Ramanya Nikaya reside close to forests and are now custodians to some of the last remaining forests and threatened biodiversity on the island.
Rainforest rescue International a Galle based not for Profit Company and Conservation Carbon Company Partner has been working closely with the monastery in order to develop local environmental awareness and stewardship in the Koggala area. For the past 4 Years the monastery along with Rainforest rescue International has run a mangrove nursery, which has grown and supplied over 50,000 Mangrove seedlings to habitat restoration projects in Sri Lanka.
The mangrove nursery has propagated over 3 threatened and vulnerable mangrove species which is listed as critically endangered, furthermore the nursery has over 30 mangrove species in stages of propagation and over 30 rare traditional medicinal plants. The Nursery is managed by a local community based organization dedicated to environmental restoration and reaching community development by sustainable methods.
The island Talatuduwa is essentially a mangrove and mangrove-associated system, which has been protected by the temple, and it’s monks over time. Encroachments and forest clearing for firewood has been an ongoing management issue the Temple has been responding to, better community education and proactive planting programs are expected to reduce these threats.
The Conservation Carbon Company was established with the purpose of developing the carbon market to include environmental and social considerations which go beyond mere offsetting. Our purpose is to use the principles of Sustainable Development as articulated at the UNCED to set new standards in Ecosystem Adaptation and Mitigation of Climate Change.
The company was founded on the belief that any carbon sequestration business needs to incorporate economic, social and environmental principles.
The comapany’s core focus is on the consultation and development of carbon credits for businesses who wish to look beyond carbon footprints and want their “green” policies to help their immediate communities and the environment to be truly sustainable.
Sacred Grove Carbon.
The Conservation Carbon Company of Sri Lanka along with Rainforest Rescue International has been working on developing innovative and inclusive climate change mitigation actions. Actions such as reforestation programs for buffer communities; environmental awareness programs and restoration programs are carried out in partnerships with rural communities throughout Sri Lanka.
Recognizing that some of the last remaining forests fragments and threatened systems are found in the care of places of worship, The concept of sacred grove carbon was developed in order to support the management actions and enhance the protection of these fragments.
Additionally the program aims to enhance the re plantation and restoration of these sites in order to maximize the carbon sequestration over a period of time.
By linking actions of places of worship to climate change mitigatory measures the Sacred grove concept further aims to educate the local community on climate change related issues they could face and what local responses are appropriate at village level.