REDD+ Matavén

Orinoco-Amazon transition zone, Colombia

We tackle climate change while improving indigenous peoples' lives. We stop deforestation. We protect 1.150.212 hectares of tropical forests in the Indigenous Reservation of the Matavén Forest in Colombia - we avoid an average of 3.622.352 Tons of CO2 per year to be released into the atmosphere - while safeguarding its biodiversity and providing education, healthcare, sanitation, food security, among other co-benefits for 15.932 indigenous people.