Bôndy Aims to Monitor 400+ Hectares Using Open Forest Protocol
Bôndy is an Agroforestry and coastal reforestation (blue carbon) organization in Madagascar. As per recent statistics from WWF, over 300% of lands in Madagascar have been forested since the early 1960s. Only 10% of these forests remain today. Faced with this reality, Bôndy noted that the problem does not lie in the lack of reforestation projects. Rather, the issue facing Madagascar’s forests has to do with the way reforestation projects are carried out in the country. Thus, in 2019, Bôndy came up with a model for reforestation in Madagascar that will guarantee the sustainability of impacts in line with UN Sustainable Development Goals. The company has since grown to have 53 full-time employees, 24 partners, and plans to plant more than 300,000 trees across 4 regions in Madagascar. Bondy intends to expand this model into the remaining 23 regions of Madagascar by 2030.
Bôndy’s forestation model proposes two types of projects. The first is Agroforestry, where the organization plants high-value species of forests in farmer lands, while the second project entails planting mangrove forests in degraded lands. The rural population is at the center of the model. Members of the community are educated on environmental consciousness and enter into a partnership with the company for conservation efforts. By doing so, Bôndy facilitates appropriate forest conservation activities without promoting dependency. It also creates a substitute for the existing natural forests of Madagascar, thereby fostering positive environmental and social impacts. With a strong focus on transparency and an efficient model for forest conservation, Bôndy is confident in achieving Sustainable Development Goals relevant to Madagascar by managing forestation projects of any magnitude.
Joining OFP as a forest operator, Bôndy plans to use OFP’s Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) tools to track 400 hectares of land as a pilot project. This land is held communally, and the organization has been assigned to care for it for 32 years. The pilot project’s success will see Bôndy expand the use of OFP resources to all its forestation activities covering over 2400 hectares to enjoy additional benefits, including increased control of the projects by the company and its partners.
“OFP technology will give us the possibility to monitor even more precisely our project and so having more control. On top of that, it will benefit our partners as they will have more control over the projects they invested in.” Gabriel Tasso, Bôndy
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