Looking back on another successful month here at Open Forest Protocol, we have seen growth through our partnerships and community engagement: 4100+ followers on Twitter, 600+ members on Discord, and 400+ on Telegram. We welcomed new Project Operators and Validators from around the world! Four new projects and four more…

Shamba is a geospatial and information technology company based in Kenya — an oracle for environmental data. Shamba focuses primarily on the real-world applications of Web 3, using their software and analytics to build decentralized applications pertaining to climate data and environmental stewardship. In that regard, its core staff consists…

The Open Forest Protocol (OFP) is committed to globally mitigating the adverse effects of climate change by increasing the accessibility and transparency of the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of forestation projects. To pursue our mission of scaling nature-based solutions, OFP collaborates with like-minded stakeholders, governments, NGOs, companies, and research…

Green Balam is a conservation company in the Maya Jungle of Guatemala. Formed in 2019, the firm engages in assisted natural regeneration to improve ecosystem sustainably and, in the process, markets forest restoration as a viable alternative to agribusiness — the greatest source of agriculture-induced deforestation in the country. Our…

Biotasoil Foundation is an environmental NGO in India committed to ecosystem restoration using nature-based solutions that benefit both human well-being, and biodiversity. The firm uses Miyawaki forestation and silviculture plantation methods to achieve their scalable and eco-friendly objectives. So effective are the methods in the Indian context that the NGO…

Natural Green Farmtech is a sustainable seed financing company operating in Kenya and Uganda. The company started as a tree nursery business back in 2015. After assessing the economic climate of the business, which had by then attracted several new entrants, Natural Green Farmtech opted to differentiate itself in the…

LiDAR Latino America SpA is a remote sensing company operating in Costa Rica, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Chile. The organization specializes in Forest Inventory, Biomass and Carbon stock estimations using LiDAR and Radar Technology. With over 25 years of experience in the Latin America Geospatial Industry and 80 employees, the organization…

Green Embassy is an environmental consortium in Kenya seeking to empower youths to serve their communities through sustainable environmental management. The organization was founded back in 2019 by Raychelle, a then second-year student at Egerton University with a passion for ecological conservation who was inspired by similar social movements in…

Wildsense is a remote sensing company with operations in Europe and Central America. The firm specializes in the use of remote sensing technologies, including satellite and AI models, to monitor the health of forest projects. Founded in December 2020, the company has since grown to a team of 14 full-time…

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. …

Almighty Tree is an environmental organization, which gives the Swiss population and companies the opportunity to plant trees in Switzerland in order to adapt Swiss forests to climate change. Founded by Gilles and Aline in Marly, Switzerland, Almighty Tree is an environmental organization that seeks to promote climate change adaptation…

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…

Oasa is a network of co-owned regenerative villages engaging in forestation efforts. Oasa aims to develop 10–12 regenerative human settlements that protect the acquired land under a regenerative land use agreement, keeping 95% of the land unconstructed. Emerging from a collaboration between a land stewardship entity, a tech platform (Closer.earth)…

Carbon Check India Private Limited (CCIPL) is a global validation, verification, and certification body headquartered in India. It offers a wide range of third-party assurance services, including validation, verification, and certification of climate change mitigation projects worldwide. CCIPL is accredited by global certification bodies and standards, namely UNFCCC, VERRA, Gold…

Carbon Check India Private Limited (CCIPL) is a global validation, verification, and certification body headquartered in India. It offers a wide range of third-party assurance services, including validation, verification, and certification of climate change mitigation projects worldwide. CCIPL is accredited by global certification bodies and standards, namely UNFCCC, VERRA, Gold…

DoubleHelix provides supply chain due diligence solutions for forest products and deforestation-related commodities. As a validator in the OFP MRV network, DoubleHelix will apply its risk assessment and data verification expertise through the use of methods such as remote sensing. Founded in 2008, the company started by providing timber legality…

Oasa is a network of co-owned regenerative villages engaging in forestation efforts. Oasa aims to develop 10–12 regenerative human settlements that protect the acquired land under a regenerative land use agreement, keeping 95% of the land unconstructed. Emerging from a collaboration between a land stewardship entity, a tech platform (Closer.earth)…

KBS Certification Services is a premier designated operational entity (DOE) and verification/validation body (VVB) with a pool of experienced auditors. Founded in 2005, KBS Certification Services Pvt Ltd was established as a service-based organization providing independent third-party assessment services in areas of climate change, management system certification, sustainability reporting and…

EMAUA is a Swiss-Kenyan non-profit project that plants indigenous trees in a tropical region of Kenya to store CO2 and preserve native biodiversity. The project’s aim is to reach 1 million trees planted per year by 2025. Julien Kauer founded the organization back in 2015 as a self-sufficiency project in…

Open Forest Protocol (OFP)’s mission statement is to improve global monitoring of forestation projects by using blockchain technology. This is done by having forest project operators register their projects and upload data onto the OFP ledger for continuous monitoring and evaluation, and having trusted reporting of forestation project flow and…