On 15 March 2017, REDD-Monitor wrote a post about the Juma Sustainable Development Reserve, a REDD project in Brazil. The post was based on a documentary by Marie-Martine Buckens, broadcast in February 2017 on Belgian TV.
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The Juma Sustainable Development Reserve, Brazil: “A lot of promises that aren’t being kept”
The Juma Sustainable Development Reserve covers an area of 589,612 hectares in the municipality of Novo Aripuanã, in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. On its website, the project developer Fundação Amazonas Sustentável states that, “FAS is committed to protect forests and improving the life quality of people that live there”.
REDD in the news: 1-7 December 2014
REDD-Monitor’s weekly round up of the news on REDD, forests and climate. The links are organised by date (click on the title for the full article). REDD-Monitor’s news links on delicious.com are updated regularly. For past REDD in the news posts, click here.
Forest carbon project in Paraná, Brazil: Reduction of deforestation and persecution of local communities
The Guaraqueçaba project, run by the Nature Conservancy and the Society for Wildlife Research and Environmental Education (SPVS) has been featured in the past on REDD-Monitor, after investigative journalist Mark Schapiro reported from the project area.
The Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project: FSC blocks and suspends logging company Maderyja. The REDD project (which consists of two logging concessions and overlaps the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation) is still selling carbon offsets
Madre de Dios Amazon REDD+ Project: One of the logging companies has lost its FSC certificate. The concession also overlaps the territory of Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation.