Bosques Naturales Protegidos: A 300K ha Reforestation Project in Argentina to Use Open Forest Protocol
Bosques Naturales Protegidos (henceforth, BNP) is an organization that manages over 300,000 hectares of forest land primarily in Argentina, with plans to expand to Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru. BNP engages in afforestation and reforestation with an emphasis on community-based conservation. Their mission is to provide a real solution to eliminate deforestation, conserve wildlife, and improve the quality of life for the native populations in these areas.
Using OFP, BNP plans to monitor and report on 307,000 hectares in their large portfolio of forests, and gain access to carbon financing schemes through OFP’s network as well as the upcoming Open Forest Starter — the results-based financing platform for forest projects on OFP.
OFP was recommended as the best option for our needs. In particular, we are looking forward to the carbon financing aspect that OFP will provide to fund our forestation project.
With OFP’s resources, BNP will be able to ensure transparency and accountability to the landowners with whom they work, as well as build confidence for their funding partners, all of which is much needed to realize their mission statement at a scale of millions of hectares.
