For businesses looking to make a verifiable global and local impact.
Ecosystems around the planet are under threat from farming, logging and invasive species.
This “Extended Impact” project solution from TEM in partnership with Wilderlands enables businesses to support the permanent protection of Australian native ecosystems in specific locations, while also investing in rainforest protection in Papua New Guinea through an independently verified carbon project.
Combining these two projects meets the requirements of the Australia Government’s Climate Active Program, with each unit retired on an independent registry.
April Salumei Rainforest Conservation
The April Salumei REDD+ project is located in Papua New Guinea, a country which contains ~7% of the world’s biodiversity in less than 1% of the world’s total land area.
As a result of the project, 603,712ha of virgin tropical rainforest is being conserved against planned deforestation, preventing ~22.8 million tonnes of GHG emissions from being released into the atmosphere. The project channels climate finance to autonomous Indigenous groups, through the conservation of one of the most ecologically distinct forest communities in the world.
For more details on the April Salumei REDD+ project please visit: April Salumei Rainforest Conservation: 2018 vintage
Coorong Lakes Protection
Each Biological Diversity Unit issued by our project partner, Wilderlands, provides legally-backed permanent protection and 20 years of active management of a designated area within the Coorong Lakes region, located south of Meningie in South Australia. The reserve is owned and managed by Cassinia Environmental as a conservation reserve in partnership with local Ngarrindjeri people.
The impacts of land clearing for agriculture, nutrient contamination and the proliferation of invasive species has put these areas under ongoing threat of degradation.
Amongst the primary objectives for this project are landscape protection, habitat connectivity, community partnership, and the opportunity for sustainable livelihoods delivering healthy country outcomes.
The Coorong Lakes Project complements the internationally important wetland systems of Lake Alexandrina, Lake Albert, and the Coorong Lagoons, with the diversity of ecosystems making a significant contribution to the importance of this area.”
Rising above low-lying saline wetland communities of samphire and melaleuca shrublands are sandy dune systems of mallee and heathy woodlands, host to a rich diversity of native plants and animals.”
The project is home to a rich diversity of native birds with a total of 61 species identified during recent spring monitoring, including the Purple-gaped Honeyeater (Lichenostomus cratitius) which is listed as rare under the SA National Parks and Wildlife Act.
The number of species is considerably high given that the surrounding landscape has been heavily impacted by land clearing and grazing and that species such as the Purple-gaped Honeyeater, Black-eared Cuckoo, Shy Heathwren and Elegant Parrot are not particularly common.
The native plant diversity in the Coorong Lakes Project reached a total of 222 species in the most recent monitoring reports, with the noteworthy addition of Slender Smoke-bush (Conospermum patens), a species regarded as endangered under the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
It is, however, the native orchid diversity that was the standout of the 2023 spring survey with 30 species recorded including the world’s largest known populations (on private land) of the nationally endangered Metallic Sun-orchid (Thelymitra epipactoides) – one of Australia’s largest and most impressive sun-orchids.
Coorong Lakes is a rare pocket of intact native remnant vegetation in a region that has largely been cleared for agriculture.
For more details on the Coorong Lakes project, visit our project partners at Wilderlands: Coorong Lakes, SA | Wilderlands.earth