How is EcoPlanet's carbon verified?

Every project is developed under the Verified Carbon Standard and independently verifiable, with public records on the Verra registry. EcoPlanet's Nicaragua farms produced the world's first accredited bamboo carbon offsets.

EcoPlanet grows only tropical clumping bamboo, which forms compact clumps with no capacity to spread — a fundamentally different organism from invasive temperate running bamboo.

How does bamboo compare to planting trees for carbon removal?

Bamboo reaches maturity in six to eight years versus fifteen to twenty for tropical hardwood, with the majority of carbon removals realized within roughly a decade — and because harvesting stimulates regrowth rather than killing the plant, the forest remains a permanent carbon sink.

One forest. Three engines.

Q: What happens if a project under-delivers?

Delivery schedules are modeled conservatively from fifteen years of real planting data, every project contributes to the VCS buffer pool, and the portfolio spans five countries on three continents, diversifying operational and political risk.

We restore degraded land at scale, capturing carbon in the forests we grow while developing regenerative fuels, sustainable materials, and rural livelihoods for the future.

Explore the portfolio → How it works →

The model

The world will not stop needing fibre and fuel. It can stop cutting forests to get them.

EcoPlanet is an integrated land-restoration and bioeconomy company. We restore degraded land at industrial scale and use the resulting renewable biomass to deliver verified carbon removals, replace forest- and fossil-derived inputs in major global markets, and create lasting rural work in the places we operate.

What we do

We take the land the world wrote off. And bring it back to life.

Every year, the world clears more forest for fibre and burns more fossil carbon for fuel. Yet the land to grow a better answer sits idle: hundreds of millions of degraded, abandoned hectares. EcoPlanet turns that ground into certified, biodiverse bamboo forest. Bamboo is why it works: it reaches maturity in six to eight years, regrows from its own roots after every harvest, and keeps producing for decades without replanting.

Where we work

Nicaragua Ghana Rwanda South Africa Philippines

Partnerships

The company we keep.

At EcoPlanet we partner with leading corporations, governments and institutions across the planet to restore land, capture carbon, and create sustainable jobs. As a trusted development partner, we have worked with Fortune 100 and Global 1000 companies to restore land at scale.

Partner spotlight

Volkswagen ClimatePartner at Sand River Sanctuary

We partnered with Volkswagen ClimatePartner on the Eastern Cape Restoration Project: spekboom thicket restoration inside a contiguous conservation sanctuary of more than 10,000 hectares, being developed as a future home for elephant and black rhino. They sent a crew to film what their backing actually built.

Learn more about the partnership →

Corporate · Automotive

Volkswagen ClimatePartner

Backing EcoPlanet's Eastern Cape Restoration Project, large-scale spekboom reforestation delivering carbon removal, biodiversity, and rural livelihoods in South Africa.

Government

Ghana Forestry Commission

An 11,145-hectare public-private partnership, a bamboo-led forest restoration initiative at national scale.

Conservation

African Wildlife Foundation

Gorilla-habitat protection and park expansion at Volcanoes National Park, integrating conservation with community benefit.

Global development

Initiative 20×20 and AFR100

Designated project developer positioning bamboo as a tool for continental-scale forest landscape restoration across Latin America and Africa.

Partner with us →

Track record

15 years

EcoPlanet was the first company in the world to deliver verified carbon removals from bamboo, issued, retired, and standing behind real corporate climate commitments. Fifteen years of operating history sits behind that: land secured, nurseries built, crews trained and forests standing.

Operating since 2010

1,800+

people at work across five countries and three continents

40,000+ ha

of degraded land under restoration

registered Verra projects, five countries

21M+

tonnes CO₂e projected over project lifecycles

1,800+

rural jobs created

Restoration

Bamboo leads. The platform is bigger.

We plant more bamboo every year, and the platform underneath it is broader than one species: fifteen years of large-scale land restoration across five countries and three continents, built country by country with governments, conservation organisations and the communities who live on the land. Where a landscape calls for something else, we plant something else.

More than 10,000 hectares, roughly a quarter of the portfolio, are restoration-led — projects where the objective is the ecosystem itself rather than a harvestable crop. A quarter to as much as half of every other property we operate is set aside permanently for native species and conservation.

Hands planting a spekboom cutting in the Eastern Cape

Beyond bamboo · Eastern Cape · 5,665 ha

Spekboom thicket

No bamboo at all. The Albany Subtropical Thicket is a global biodiversity hotspot, and spekboom is the keystone species that rebuilds it, drawing down carbon at night while losing almost no water. The restored land is becoming a contiguous sanctuary of more than 10,000 hectares, a future home for elephant and black rhino.

See the project →

A dense wall of mature bamboo culms in Rwanda

Bamboo as habitat · Volcanoes National Park

Food for mountain gorillas

Bamboo doing pure conservation work. With the African Wildlife Foundation, EcoPlanet delivered the pilot phase of a habitat expansion at Volcanoes National Park, growing the endemic bamboo that endangered mountain gorillas feed on. No carbon project, no harvest, no crop.

Full detail →

How it works

How a hectare becomes an asset.

A replicable cycle that turns degraded land into a self-sustaining forest economy, without competing for farmland or felling a single tree.

Restore

Tropical clumping bamboo is planted on marginal, unproductive land. Within five years, barren ground becomes biodiverse forest, with a quarter to as much as half of every farm set aside permanently for conservation.

Remove

As it grows, the forest draws carbon from the air into a living, regenerating sink, harvested for decades without replanting. No new ground broken. Removals are monitored, then assessed by an accredited body before Verra issues any credit, and sold forward to fund the planting.

Return

At maturity, the same hectares return more than carbon: deforestation-free fibre and packaging today, and the feedstock for renewable fuels for the planes and ships we cannot electrify tomorrow.

The platform

Carbon today. Fibre and fuels next.

A bamboo farm matures like nothing else in forestry, and each hectare compounds into the next engine. Carbon funds the planting today. Fibre builds the manufacturing base next. Fuel, for the planes and ships we cannot yet electrify, is where this scales. One platform, engineered to run all three.

Why bamboo →

Camille Rebelo at TEDxBoston: why the hardest sectors to electrify still need a molecule.

Carbon Removal

A portfolio of VCS projects generating removal credits, sold forward under transparent per-hectare project finance that buyers can audit to the dollar.

Delivering today

Fibre and Materials

Tree-free, deforestation-free fibre for the pulp, paper and packaging industries that still drive most tropical deforestation, with manufacturing planned in-country where the bamboo grows.

Ready to harvest

Sustainable Fuels

The same biomass that makes fibre can become renewable liquid fuel for the planes and ships the world cannot electrify. That pathway comes next. Explore the pathway →

In development

Four markets still run on forests and oil: pulp and packaging, sanitary tissue, aviation and shipping. See how each one changes →

Impact, built in

We don't plant and leave.

More than 99% of our team is hired locally. Roughly half of management roles are held by women. A quarter to as much as half of every farm is set aside, permanently, for native species and conservation.

1,800+

rural jobs created

~50%

of management roles held by women

99%

of staff hired locally

25–50%

of every farm reserved for conservation

See the full impact record →

Join us

The next decade of removal is already planted.

Buyers, investors, and partners come to EcoPlanet for different reasons. Find where you fit.

Secure carbon removals

For teams retiring removals against a net-zero or science-based target, or locking in forward supply ahead of a tightening market. Every tonne traces to a hectare and a registry entry.

Explore carbon →

Fibre and materials

For manufacturers planning future fibre offtake or an in-country manufacturing partnership. Feedstock is standing today; processing and offtake come next.

Explore fibre and materials →

Partner with us

For governments, corporates, investors, conservation groups, and operators looking to build or scale restoration alongside us.

Start the conversation →

Carbon Solutions

Restoring forests, capturing carbon, and creating careers.

Fifteen years in the ground. We are restoring more than 40,000 hectares of degraded land across five countries and three continents, capturing millions of tonnes of carbon and creating thousands of rural jobs, through nine projects registered with Verra.

Removals

Carbon drawn back out of the air. Verified at the hectare.

Every year the world puts far more carbon into the air than it takes back out, and the gap is still widening. Closing it needs removal at scale, and removal that can actually be checked. EcoPlanet works in removals only: carbon physically captured into living biomass and soil. Most of what we sell is forward-contracted against projected removals, which become credits once monitored, verified and issued. We were the first company in the world to deliver them from bamboo.

Those removals are financed by institutional buyers, among them Volkswagen ClimatePartner, Aker BP, A.P. Møller, Tomorrow Bank and Geobrugg, alongside Fortune 100 and Global 1000 companies. Each committed after auditing the projects hectare by hectare.

An EcoPlanet field officer measuring culm diameter with calipers in a mature bamboo stand

What sets the credits apart

Methodology, permanence, and proof.

The team applying them helped write the VCS, CDM and REDD methodologies the market now runs on. If you want a view on your own project, or a second opinion on someone else’s, get in touch below.

Methodology

Every project is developed under the Verified Carbon Standard, each with a public Verra registry entry a buyer can audit: the methodology, the verification, and every credit issued and retired, all on the public record.

Permanence and proof

Removals are projected from years of measured planting data, not models alone. Harvesting bamboo stimulates regrowth rather than ending the plant’s life, so a stand keeps producing for 60 to 120 years rather than ending as a crop does. Where we restore native thicket, as at Sand River, the carbon is committed to the land for a century. Land is held freehold where we own it, and under long-term lease or government tenure elsewhere.

Co-benefits, quantified

Each standard does a different job. The Verified Carbon Standard governs the carbon itself, from validation of the project design through to verification of achieved removals. SD VISta assesses sustainable-development benefits, and CCB assesses community and biodiversity outcomes, where a project carries that status. EcoPlanet is also a UN Global Compact participant.

The Carbon Portfolio

Proven since 2013. Supplying the decades ahead.

Every partnership traces to a hectare you can visit and a registry entry you can audit. We take this work seriously and believe that transparency and trust are critical. To that end, all of our projects are Verra registered and held to the highest standards across the board.

VCS projects

14M+

tCO₂e already under forward contract with direct end users

countries, 3 continents

projects registered with Verra

15yr

operating track record

7.5M+

tCO₂e, four newest registrations

Philippines · Lanao del Sur, Mindanao

VCS 2958 · Philippines · Registered

Open for forward offtake

Lanao del Sur Reforestation

An 8,360-hectare project area of degraded montane land on Mindanao: 5,000 hectares of native bamboo reforestation alongside 1,200 hectares of native trees, 1,000 hectares of conservation and 620 hectares of regenerative smallholder farms. This offering covers 4,000 of the bamboo hectares, of which 1,600 are already planted.

8,360 ha

Project area

Reforestation

Restoration system

2.55M

tCO₂e, the 4,000 ha offering

Contributes to 10 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Read the project offering →View on Verra Registry →

South Africa · Eastern Cape

VCS 3632 · South Africa · Registered

Open for forward offtake

Eastern Cape Bamboo Forestry

Giant bamboo converting degraded, overgrazed farmland, built farm by farm toward a target of 7,000 planted hectares. Three carbon farms are in the ground alongside Kowie, the pilot that proved the model. Unemployment in the town stood at 86% when we arrived, which is why the work this creates carries so far.

3,500 ha

Project area

Bamboo forestry

Restoration system

2.2M

tCO₂e projected, full project

Contributes to 4 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Read the project offering →View on Verra Registry →

Planting spekboom at the Eastern Cape restoration project

South Africa · Albany Thicket biome

VCS 3628 · South Africa · Registered

Open for forward offtake

Spekboom Thicket Restoration

Reviving the Eastern Cape's ancient subtropical thicket with Portulacaria afra, a keystone succulent that sequesters high volumes of carbon for a semi-arid region. No bamboo at all. The restored land is becoming a contiguous sanctuary and a future home for black rhino and elephant.

5,665 ha

Project area

Spekboom thicket

Restoration system

0.62M

tCO₂e, remaining allocation

Contributes to 13 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Read the project offering →View on Verra Registry →

Rwanda · Highland watersheds

VCS 3072 · Rwanda · Registered

Open for forward offtake

Rwanda: Riparian Restoration

A 1,000 km riparian buffer-zone restoration protecting fragile watersheds against erosion, with 500 km already planted. Clumping bamboo is planted as a living barrier rather than a crop, on land too narrow and too wet to farm, and nothing is harvested once the banks are restored.

5,000 ha

Project area

Riparian buffer

Restoration system

2.12M

tCO₂e, the 4,000 ha offering

Contributes to 7 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Read the project offering →View on Verra Registry →

An EcoPlanet supervisor with field staff in the Ashanti Region, Ghana

Ghana · North Bandai PPP

VCS 2928 + 2929 · West Africa · Registered

Fully committed

Ghana: North Bandai

An 11,145-hectare public-private partnership regenerating land degraded by fire and illegal charcoal harvesting. Over 775,000 bamboo clumps planted, integrated with native trees and remnant forest. The workforce is nearly half women, and the project funds water and sanitation for surrounding communities.

11,145 ha

Project area

Bamboo PPP

Restoration system

775K+

Bamboo clumps planted

Contributes to 5 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Full project page →VCS 2928 →VCS 2929 →

Mature Guadua bamboo on EcoPlanet's Nicaragua farms

Nicaragua · San Jose Farm and El Rama

VCS 1085 · Central America · Registered

Delivering · inquire for current vintages

Nicaragua: Where it began

The project that proved the model. Heavily degraded pastureland converted into biodiverse bamboo ecosystems, generating the world's first accredited bamboo carbon offsets under the Verified Carbon Standard. Hundreds of stable jobs above minimum wage, funding local health clinics in a region of historically high unemployment.

Since 2010

Operating

Reforestation

Restoration system

2013

First VCS validation

Contributes to 5 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals

Full project page →View on Verra Registry →

From the field

See the work for yourself.

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How it works

From first conversation to retired credit.

Scope

Tell us your volume, timing, geography, and the impact story that matters to you: biodiversity, gender, community health. We map it to the projects that fit.

Diligence

Every project links straight to its Verra registry entry. Walk the documentation, or walk the actual land. We host buyers on site.

Contract

Forward offtake or spot, structured around your delivery horizon and reporting needs, with vintages and pricing set transparently.

Deliver

We monitor the removals, an accredited body verifies them, Verra approves the verification and issues the credits, and they are retired against your commitment.

Beyond the carbon

Committed to our communities and co-benefits.

Every project is designed so the land and the people on it grow together. A quarter to as much as half of every property is set aside permanently for conservation. We prioritise hiring locally, with more than 99% of our teams being local, and prioritise gender equity, with women in roughly half of management roles. Our projects are built with co-benefits baked in, focused on supporting local ecosystems, creating sustainable jobs, and meeting SD VISta goals.

See the impact in full →

Schoolchildren beside the cabbage beds at a Rwandan school growhouse

Spotlight · Rwanda

A school growhouse at an Early Childhood Development centre in Rwanda now supports 378 children, whose food-secure days rose from 12 a month to 20 at the age when nutrition shapes everything that follows.

Rwanda impact →

Talk to the carbon team

Bring us your commitment. We’ll bring the forest.

We work best with buyers who know what they’re trying to achieve, and we say so when we’re not the right match. Tell us your goal. We’ll show you where it meets fifteen years of work already in the ground.

Talk to our team → Explore the portfolio FAQ →

About EcoPlanet

We grow forests on the land the world wrote off.

EcoPlanet is an integrated land-restoration and bioeconomy company. We take land so degraded there are few other opportunities left on it, and use giant clumping bamboo to bring it back. What grows there becomes verified carbon removals today, deforestation-free fibre and renewable fuel next, and work that can hold a rural community for two or three generations.

Our track record

15yr

operating track record

40,000ha

under management

21M+

tCO₂e removals projected

registered Verra projects

countries, three continents

1,800+

employees and field staff

Our vision

Why electrification alone won’t get us to net zero.

In her TEDxBoston talk, co-founder and CEO Camille Rebelo sets out the case for regenerative economies: why the hardest sectors to electrify still need a molecule, and why that molecule can be grown on land nobody wanted.

Our background

Industry firsts, and the recognition that followed.

2025

Kwita Izina · Rwanda Gorilla Naming

Invited by the Government of Rwanda to name a baby mountain gorilla at the 20th anniversary of its flagship conservation ceremony. The name chosen means "bamboo."

Industry firsts

VCS · CCB Gold

Among the first commercial bamboo operations in the world to carry the Verified Carbon Standard alongside CCB gold-level certification. CCB assessment and SD VISta co-benefit reporting increasingly matter for European sustainability disclosure.

Global · ongoing

Global Restoration Council

CEO Camille Rebelo sits on the Council, convened by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment and supported by the World Resources Institute, alongside former heads of state.

Recognition

Meaningful Business 100

Recognized among the Meaningful Business 100, which honors leaders uniting commercial success with measurable social and environmental impact.

2014

U.S. State Department Award for Corporate Excellence

Presented by the U.S. Department of State, one of the U.S. government's highest recognitions for American companies operating responsibly abroad.

2013

World's first bamboo carbon credits

EcoPlanet's Nicaragua farms generated the world's first carbon credits from bamboo, verified under the Verified Carbon Standard.

Government and institutional engagement

Working with governments to restore land, verify carbon, and build rural economies.

Rwanda

Rwanda Development Board

Commissioned EcoPlanet to produce a full commercialization and bioeconomy analysis for the country, mapping how restored bamboo landscapes can anchor a national industry.

Ethiopia · via KOICA

Korea International Cooperation Agency

KOICA, South Korea's development agency, engaged EcoPlanet on behalf of the Government of Ethiopia to help industrialize the country's bamboo sector.

World Bank Group

MIGA political-risk cover, IFC standards

The World Bank's Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency issued up to $48.8M in political-risk guarantees for EcoPlanet's operations in Nicaragua, with IFC environmental, health and safety standards built into operations.

Selected press

TEDxBoston · 2026

"Why electrification alone won't get us to net zero"

CEO Camille Rebelo's eleven-minute case for bamboo as the feedstock of the post-fossil economy.

Watch the talk →

Lionesses of Africa · 2023

Feature: Camille Rebelo

The continent's leading platform for women entrepreneurs profiles the operator behind a continent-spanning bamboo restoration portfolio.

Read the profile →

WRI and The Nature Conservancy · 2018

One of 14 restoration companies worth backing

In The Business of Planting Trees, the World Resources Institute and The Nature Conservancy named EcoPlanet one of only 14 investable restoration-economy companies worldwide, the sole bamboo operator on the list.

See all press and recognition →

Our story

Visions of a sustainable future.

Most people go looking for good land. In 2010, Camille Rebelo and Troy Wiseman went looking for the worst.

They found it in Nicaragua: abandoned pastureland that had been rainforest once and grew almost nothing by the time they arrived. Bringing it back was only half the idea. The other half was building a company that could pay for the work, employ the people living around it, and still be standing in thirty years. Restoration funded by grants ends when the grant does.

Three years later those same farms produced the first carbon credits ever issued from bamboo. Fifteen years on the model runs across five countries and three continents, employing more than 1,800 people, over 99% of them hired locally.

Read the full story →

Mature bamboo on EcoPlanet's founding plantation in Nicaragua — Nicaragua, on ground that grew almost nothing in 2010.

Our team

One operating blueprint. A global workforce of thousands.

EcoPlanet runs one blueprint across five countries: a lean, technology-enabled global team, with country operations led almost entirely by local hires.

Camille Rebelo

Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Samantha Wilde

VP of Forestry

Manushka Moodley

VP of Impact and Compliance

Audrey Bolo

VP of People and Culture

Sahil Rahman

Chief Growth Officer

Harriet Rudd

VP of Finance

Adriaan Potgieter

General Manager, South Africa

Sergio Sanchez

General Manager, Central America

Sharon Umuratwa

General Manager, Rwanda

Paramjit Singh

General Manager, West Africa

Frikkie

Operations Manager, South Africa

Hanas

Operations Manager, South Africa

Richard

Finance Manager, Ghana

Rebecca

Finance Manager, Rwanda

Aileen

Finance Manager, Philippines

Martina

Finance Manager, South Africa

Benjamin Mugema

Operations Manager, Rwanda

Nathan

Operations Manager, Ghana

Ivy

HR Manager, Ghana

› More of our country teams

These country-team roles are held by local hires across our five geographies.

South Africa

Community Development Manager
GIS and Monitoring Manager

Ghana

Community Development Manager
GIS and Monitoring Manager

Rwanda

Community Development Manager
GIS and Monitoring Manager

Nicaragua

Operations Manager
Finance Manager
Community Development Manager
GIS and Monitoring Manager

Philippines

Operations Manager
Community Development Manager
GIS and Monitoring Manager

Working here

People, planet and profit, weighted equally.

EcoPlanet is a triple bottom line company. People, planet and profit carry equal weight, and the team is built to match: collaborative, entrepreneurial, and genuinely interested in driving long-term impact through a business rather than around one.

The work is fast-paced and multi-national. Most of it happens in rural regions across five countries and three continents, which means the people who do well here communicate easily across cultures, carry a real sense of responsibility, and would rather solve a problem than escalate it.

More than 99% of the team is hired locally, and roughly half of management roles are held by women. For global roles, remote works for the right person: what matters is being disciplined about time zones and serious about the mission.

What we offer: competitive pay, real room to grow, and a platform to do exciting and meaningful work alongside an ambitious and passionate team, in a global company driving genuine change.

Ghana field team laughing together at camp

The Rwanda field team together at the end of a planting day

A nursery foreman in Lanao del Sur, Philippines

A site manager briefing the crew in Nicaragua

A worker outside the Sand River Sanctuary office, South Africa

Careers

New forests. New fuels. New careers.

EcoPlanet's work happens in some of the most underserved rural regions on Earth. It's done almost entirely by people from those regions. More than 99% of our team is hired locally, roughly half of management roles are held by women, and the jobs are long-term, not seasonal.

Most openings are field and country-team roles: forestry and nursery operations, carbon and certification, community development. Based in the countries where we operate. We also hire for the global team. If restoration at industrial scale is the work you want to do, we’d like to hear from you.

See open roles → Roles open across Nicaragua, Ghana, South Africa, Rwanda, and the Philippines.

1,800+

jobs created

99%

hired locally

~50%

women in management

countries, three continents

Open now

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The next chapter

If we have the courage to scale it, these forests become the next generation's oil wells.

Whether you're securing removals, exploring an offtake partnership, or backing the platform. We'd love to talk.

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Our story

How EcoPlanet began.

In 2010, Camille Rebelo and Troy Wiseman went looking for the worst land they could find.

The ground they chose first was ground nobody wanted. A stretch of Nicaragua’s dry corridor that had been primary rainforest once, cleared in the 1970s for commercial agriculture, then abandoned when the soil gave out. By the time Camille Rebelo walked it, it grew almost nothing.

That was the point. The entire thesis depended on starting somewhere worthless, because land that is already productive does not need restoring, and land that is already valuable cannot be bought at a price that lets restoration pay for itself. If the model could not work there, it would not work anywhere worth trying.

Camille Rebelo

Rebelo had arrived at that idea the long way around. She grew up in Kenya, watching well-funded conservation projects arrive on her home continent with their pilot programmes and their grant cycles, and watching a great many of them fail. The forests kept disappearing anyway. The frustration was the seed of everything that followed.

She studied ecology at Imperial College London, lived and worked across Southeast Asia, and took a master’s at the Yale School of Forestry. Then she started a company of her own in Indonesia and discovered she was not ready for it.

What rescued her was a mentor who made an unusual offer: leave the company, be an entrepreneur later, and give me two years of your life. For the next twenty-four months she was sent country to country on short forestry contracts. Ten days in Mozambique. Six weeks in Malaysia. For one full year she had no place to live. She has called it the most important education she ever received, a ground-level fluency no graduate programme could have given her.

She came back to Africa with field experience in more than twenty countries. She founded a consulting firm, helped pioneer some of the world’s first forest carbon market projects through her early involvement with the UN climate convention, and advised the forestry ministries of Indonesia, Turkey, Papua New Guinea and Ghana on how to certify and finance restoration. Somewhere in all of it she arrived at the conviction that still runs the company: that capital, not aid, is the only force large enough to restore land at the scale the planet requires. Aid runs in grant cycles. Forests do not.

Troy Wiseman

The difficulty with that conviction is that it requires convincing capital, and most of the capital she had met treated environmental and social outcomes as a cost of doing business rather than a reason to do it.

Troy Wiseman did not. He had spent his life building things: a clothing company he co-founded at twenty that grew from nothing to nine figures, then a private-equity and advisory firm, then an impact fund built on the belief that capital markets could be pointed at the world’s hardest problems. By 2010 he had had enough of backing the work from a distance and wanted his own feet on the ground. He treated impact as something capital should produce, not merely tolerate.

They met that year, and found they had been circling the same idea from opposite directions. Together they co-founded EcoPlanet Bamboo.

Why a grass

Bamboo is badly misunderstood in the West, where it is remembered as the plant that ate the neighbour’s yard. Those are running bamboos, temperate and genuinely invasive. EcoPlanet works only with tropical clumping species, which form tight clumps with no capacity to spread. Of roughly 1,700 bamboo species in the world, the handful the company selected are a different organism from the one most people picture.

They are also unusual enough to change the arithmetic. Clumping bamboo reaches commercial maturity in five to eight years, against the fifteen to twenty a tropical hardwood plantation needs, and once mature it can be harvested every year for decades without replanting. An investor who would never underwrite a fifteen-year hardwood project can fund a bamboo farm that begins paying back in year five and produces every year after. The economics, in other words, are what make restoration at scale fundable at all.

What they built

The first plantings went into that Nicaraguan pastureland. Three years later, in 2013, those farms produced the first carbon credits ever issued from bamboo anywhere in the world, and were among the first to hold the Verified Carbon Standard alongside CCB gold-level certification. The framework Rebelo helped develop to get there is now used as a reference across the industry.

Then they did it again, and kept doing it: South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, the Philippines. Every farm was built the way the first one was, because the point was never only the carbon. More than 99% of the team is hired locally. Roughly half of management roles are held by women. A quarter to as much as half of every property is set aside permanently for native species and conservation. Restoration that does not pay the people living beside it does not survive, and no certificate changes that arithmetic.

Fifteen years on, the answer to the question they started with is a company operating across five countries and three continents, with more than 40,000 hectares of degraded land under restoration and a portfolio of registered Verra projects any buyer can audit line by line.

Troy Wiseman standing among mature bamboo culms

In memory

We lost Troy in 2024. One of his last trips was a week in the Philippines with the EcoPlanet team, walking the land and getting to know the people who work it, which is how he had always preferred to lead. The forests he helped plant will outlive everyone who planted them, and his legacy and vision live on.

Remembering Troy Wiseman →

What comes next

The next chapter is already in the ground.

Fifteen years in, the work is growing faster than it ever has: operations expanding across all five countries, further country expansion in the pipeline, and a team more committed to it than at any point in the company’s history. The carbon is delivering today. The fibre is ready to harvest. The fuel that follows is the reason the first hectare was ever planted.

See the portfolio → Back to about

Co-founder and visionary

Troy Wiseman.

Serial entrepreneur, restless optimist, and co-founder of EcoPlanet Bamboo. A man who spent his life building things, and decided the best thing he could build was a forest.

The builder

Troy had spent his life building things. A clothing company he co-founded at twenty that grew from nothing to nine figures. A private-equity and advisory firm after it. Then an impact fund, built on the belief that capital markets could be pointed at the world’s hardest problems rather than excused from them.

By 2010 he wanted to stop backing the work from a distance and get his own feet on the ground. Bamboo became the answer: a plant that could bring degraded land back to life, pull down carbon at real scale, put rural communities to work, and still stand on its own as a business.

He was honest about what it would take. Bamboo, he liked to remind people, was not a get-rich-quick scheme. It was a patient bet that science and care could turn worn-out land into working forest, and it would take years before anyone could tell whether he was right.

“When we first started in 2010, no one was really talking about alternative fibres.” — Troy Wiseman

Long before the bamboo

The instinct that put communities at the centre of every plantation he built showed up long before EcoPlanet existed. Earlier in his life Troy founded and supported a global network of orphanages for children in need, and he never treated it as the charitable footnote to a business career. It was the same conviction, applied earlier.

He believed, simply, that the people who tend the land should share in what it creates. Then he built a company that lives by it, and community was never an afterthought bolted on at the end of a project plan.

Troy Wiseman surrounded by children at one of the orphanages he founded and supported — Troy with children at the orphanage network he founded and supported, years before the first bamboo went in the ground.

In his own words · Global Landscapes Forum, COP21 Paris

A private-sector path to bringing land back to life

Troy speaking on Initiative 20×20’s goal to restore twenty million hectares of Latin American land, and the part he believed business could play in getting there.

His last trip

On one of his last trips, Troy spent a week in the Philippines with the EcoPlanet team, doing what he loved most: walking the land, getting to know the people who work it, and seeing the difference up close. It was exactly how he had always led.

We lost Troy in 2024, and everything he started keeps right on growing. Under Camille’s leadership the company carries his life’s work forward, and the forests he helped plant will outlive everyone who planted them, lifting communities and cooling the planet for generations. That was always the point.

Carrying it forward

The best way to honor him is to finish what he started.

Troy believed degraded land could be brought back to life, that communities could rise with it, and that business could lead the way. Every hectare restored, every person hired, and every tonne of carbon drawn down carries that belief forward.

How EcoPlanet began → Be part of the mission

Impact

Restoration that pays people.

Triple bottom line is the operating model here. Every farm is built to deliver climate, biodiversity, and community returns at once, and to prove all three through third-party certification.

Beyond the farms

Restoration that reaches the wild.

Restoration doesn’t stop at the farm gate. A quarter to as much as half of every property is permanently set aside for conservation.

1,800+

jobs created

99%+

of staff hired locally

~50%

of management roles held by women

35%+

women in field teams, minimum

25–50%

of every farm reserved for conservation

The approach

Impact that is certified, not claimed.

Rather than ask the world to take our word for it, we built our impact on among the most rigorous certification schemes applied to bamboo: sustainable forest management, social and environmental co-benefit, and climate standards. Behind them is real work: jobs that pay above minimum wage with benefits, in regions where formal employment is scarce, delivered by teams hired and led almost entirely from the communities where we work.

Every project begins with a socioeconomic baseline study. From that starting point, each action is tracked against defined indicators (jobs, training completions, local procurement, community programmes) and quantified against SD VISta, the leading standard for sustainable-development impact, alongside our carbon certification.

United Nations SDGs

A UN Global Compact signatory, contributing to 13 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

EcoPlanet Bamboo is a committed signatory to the UN Global Compact, with its progress publicly reported. Its plantation and smallholder projects contribute directly to thirteen of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, from no poverty and gender equality to climate action and life on land.

View our UN Global Compact report →

Country by country

What it looks like on the ground.

Spekboom thicket and hillside bamboo in the Eastern Cape

South Africa · Somerset East

A biodiversity hotspot restored

Spekboom thicket restoration in the Eastern Cape, building an elephant and rhino sanctuary alongside a community programme in nearby Pearston.

Explore South Africa →

Aerial view of the Rio Siquia winding through restored land, Nicaragua

Nicaragua · Since 2010

Jobs that fund clinics

Hundreds of stable jobs paying above minimum wage with comprehensive benefits, in a region of historically high unemployment, funding local health clinics and community infrastructure.

Explore Nicaragua →

Young bamboo plantation across misty hills at dawn, Philippines

Philippines · Lanao del Sur

600 families, 400 regenerative farms

1,600 hectares reforested between 2022 and 2024, developing regenerative family farms with the 600 families living within the project area, quantified against SD VISta indicators.

Explore Philippines →

Aerial sweep of a large planting crew working the land, Ghana

Ghana · North Bandai

A workforce nearly half women

Hundreds of local jobs on the Ghana bamboo public-private partnership, paired with rain-harvesting and sanitation systems installed for surrounding communities.

Explore Ghana →

Terraced green valley with a winding river, Rwanda

Rwanda · Volcanoes region

Gorilla habitat

With the African Wildlife Foundation, EcoPlanet delivered the pilot phase of a habitat expansion around Volcanoes National Park, growing the endemic bamboo that feeds endangered mountain gorillas.

Explore Rwanda →

We cannot leave tens of millions of people living in poverty and expect a peaceful transition to a green economy.

Camille Rebelo · TEDx

Partner with us

Secure long-term carbon supply.

Every credit carries this impact with it. Tell us which outcomes matter most to your organization. We'll show you exactly where your capital lands.

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Renewable Fuels

The next generation's oil wells are living forests.

We have electrified our homes and our cars. We cannot electrify our planes. What flying needs is a renewable feedstock grown at scale on land nobody else wants. It is already planted on three continents, it regrows with every harvest, and we are ready to fuel the future.

~2.5%

of global CO₂ comes from aviation, and flying is set to double by 2050

0.8%

of jet fuel is projected to be sustainable in 2026, about 2.4 million tonnes. Net-zero aviation will need up to 500 million tonnes a year.

2050 net zero

the target the world’s airlines have committed to under ICAO. It cannot be reached without sustainable fuel at industrial scale.

Airlines and governments have already committed to sustainable aviation fuel, far more of it than the industry can currently make. Scaling it runs into several constraints, and feedstock security is one of the hardest. Most SAF today comes from waste oils and fats, a supply approaching its ceiling, while the crop-based feedstocks used for ethanol, such as soy, corn and palm, carry their own land and food trade-offs. Bamboo offers a scalable, dedicated lignocellulosic feedstock grown on degraded land: already planted on three continents, regrowing with every harvest, and ready to scale.

TEDxBoston · 2026

From fossil fuels to forest fuel.

Eleven minutes on bamboo, aviation fuel, and the courage to scale what we already know works.

Watch on YouTube ↗

The modeled per-farm blueprint

What one mature 15,000-hectare farm is modelled to yield each year. This is how the platform scales: not one refinery, but a repeatable unit.

~500K

tonnes of biomass annually

31.2M

gallons of sustainable aviation fuel, roughly 550 transatlantic flights a year

5.9M

gallons of renewable gasoline, about 12,000 vehicles

750M

rolls of tissue, the annual use of ~5 million Americans

The sequence

Carbon today. Fibre and fuels next.

Now

Carbon, fibre, and biomass

Verified carbon removals fund the platform today. VCS projects across five countries, the first bamboo now standing ready to harvest, and biomass volumes compounding as the plantations mature.

Conversion to fuel

Proven thermochemical and biochemical pathways turn woody biomass into renewable liquid fuels. The work now is pairing the feedstock with the right conversion partners and project finance, biorefineries sited where the bamboo grows.

Then

Fuel at scale

Sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel as a core engine of the platform, replicated across geographies as the feedstock base no fuel venture can shortcut keeps compounding. We started planting fifteen years ago.

The bottom line

The transport we can't electrify.

EcoPlanet is turning its bamboo into renewable liquid fuels: sustainable aviation fuel and renewable ethanol and diesel for the planes and ships we can't yet electrify.

The upside

If we have the courage to scale it, these forests become the next generation's oil wells.

For airlines, investors, and visionaries who want to join the mission. Let's talk.

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Why bamboo

A giant grass that behaves like a forest.

In the West, bamboo is dismissed as a garden weed. In the tropics, it's one of the most powerful tools we have: it pulls carbon from the air while rebuilding a forest economy.

The carbon case

The carbon math has changed. Cutting emissions is no longer enough. The world also has to pull billions of tonnes of CO₂ back out of the atmosphere, starting this decade. New removal technologies are racing to scale, and we need every one of them. But only one method has ever worked at planetary scale: photosynthesis, plants pulling carbon from the air, the way they have for millions of years. The real question is which plant does it fastest, proves it most rigorously, and sustains the people who tend the land.

Carbon drawdown, front-loaded. Then held for decades.

Bamboo is a grass, not a tree. That single fact rewrites the economics and the climate math: it reaches commercial maturity in six to eight years, draws down carbon at extraordinary rates, and never has to be replanted, because harvesting a pole stimulates new growth. The forest becomes a permanent, living carbon sink.

6–8yrs

to commercial maturity

A tropical hardwood plantation needs 15–20. Bamboo gets there in a fraction of the time.

<10yrs

for the majority of removals to be realized

The carbon benefit arrives early and fast. Then the forest holds it as a permanent sink for 60+ years.

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Mitigation

Prevents deforestation and desertification
Long-term CO₂ capture and storage
Helps maintain rainfall patterns

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Adaptation

Reduces temperatures and creates micro-climates
Secures fuel source and food for livestock
Generates livelihoods for vulnerable communities

The misunderstood part: of roughly 1,700 bamboo species, EcoPlanet grows only tropical clumping bamboo, tight, non-invasive clumps, a different organism entirely from the running bamboo that spreads through a garden. Common questions, answered below ↓

The choice

Why bamboo? We chose it.

Bamboo was a deliberate choice. Before planting a single culm, EcoPlanet evaluated roughly 150 plant species, looking for one that could do three demanding things at once, and bamboo answered all three.

Restore degraded land

A fast-growing grass with a dense, binding root system, bamboo rebuilds soil, holds water and stabilises ground too far gone for conventional forestry, restoring the land while it grows.

Earn its keep

Bamboo is a genuine alternative fibre and fuel: a renewable feedstock with real commercial value, so restoration can pay its own way rather than depend on subsidy.

Keep people working

The distinctive one. Bamboo needs intensive care through its first four to six years, then selective harvesting every year after that, for good. Where conventional forestry means a brief planting boom followed by a decade of near-zero work before a first harvest, bamboo creates sustained, recurring local employment for the life of the forest.

Common questions

The things people ask about bamboo.

Isn't bamboo invasive? Won't it spread?

Not the bamboo EcoPlanet grows. Of roughly 1,700 bamboo species, the invasive ones are temperate running bamboos, the kind that takes over a garden. EcoPlanet works exclusively with tropical clumping bamboo, which forms tight, compact clumps with no capacity to spread. It's a fundamentally different organism from the plant most people picture, and it's planted only on degraded land, never by clearing existing vegetation.

How does bamboo compare to planting trees?

Bamboo reaches commercial maturity in six to eight years, versus fifteen to twenty for tropical hardwood, so the carbon drawdown happens far faster, with the majority of removals realized within roughly a decade of planting. Because harvesting takes only select poles and stimulates new growth rather than killing the plant, the forest is never clear-felled and the carbon sink stays permanent.

If you harvest it, doesn't the carbon get released?

No. This is bamboo's structural advantage over timber. Conventional forestry releases stored carbon when trees are felled, and the cycle restarts from zero. Bamboo is harvested pole by pole without killing the plant; the root system regenerates continuously and the poles are replaced within a single growing season. The living carbon sink is maintained rather than reset, even under sustainable annual harvesting, for sixty years and beyond.

Does growing bamboo compete with food or farmland?

No. EcoPlanet plants only on land that has already lost its productive value: degraded, marginal ground that no longer supports agriculture. The model restores that land rather than converting active farmland or clearing natural forest, and a quarter to as much as half of every farm is permanently set aside for native species and conservation.

What does bamboo do beyond carbon?

A great deal. As a restoration species it rebuilds degraded soils, stabilizes water tables, reduces erosion, and reconnects fragmented habitat. It delivers both climate mitigation (carbon capture, reduced deforestation) and adaptation (cooler micro-climates, secure rural livelihoods, resilience for vulnerable communities). The harvested fibre then displaces tree-based pulp and packaging, extending the benefit down the supply chain.

EcoPlanet Restoration

Beyond bamboo.

Over the last fifteen years EcoPlanet has built deep expertise in large-scale land restoration: more than 1,800 team members, projects across five countries and three continents, and long-running partnerships with governments, corporations and conservation organisations.

We started with bamboo. Over time the platform has grown to include spekboom and other native species, chosen for what a particular landscape actually needs rather than for what we happen to grow.

If there is a project you think we could work on together, we would like to hear about it.

Start a conversation →

See it in the ground.

VCS projects across five countries. Every one open for diligence.

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The industry

A deforestation-free supply chain.

The materials the world still cuts forests for can be grown instead, on land that was already lost.

What we'll make

Make the products. Keep the forests.

The world still loses nearly eleven million hectares of forest every year, an area larger than South Korea, and much of it falls for the most ordinary things. Pulp and paper alone account for some 40% of the world's commercial forest cut. Demand grows with every new middle class. The way out is fibre that never touches a forest. EcoPlanet's bamboo fibre is a tree-free, deforestation-free alternative to all of them, with manufacturing planned in-country using green technology that avoids the toxic waste streams of conventional pulp mills.

Molded Pulp Packaging

Can provide a biodegradable and compostable alternative to the plastic and styrofoam single-use packaging the food and beverage industry depends on.

Toilet Paper and Tissue

Ancient forests are still felled for products used for seconds. EcoPlanet targets 100% bamboo tissue, turning a daily purchase from deforestation into reforestation.

Plant-basedTree-freeDeforestation-freeClimate-friendly

The bioeconomy we are building

Four markets still run on forests and oil. All four can be grown instead.

We are building a bioeconomy where the materials and fuels the world runs on are grown on restored land rather than cut from forests or drilled out of the ground, and where the substitute is the same material the market already wants. Carbon is delivering today. The rest is what comes next, and each market below says exactly where it stands.

Pulp, paper and packaging

Today: tree-derived pulp and fossil plastic and styrofoam, with pulp and paper alone accounting for some 40% of the world's commercial forest cut. EcoPlanet: tree-free bamboo pulp and molded-fibre packaging. Stage: manufacturing planned in-country.

Sanitary tissue

Today: ancient forests are still felled for tissue used for seconds. EcoPlanet: 100% bamboo tissue, turning a daily purchase from deforestation into reforestation. Stage: manufacturing planned.

Aviation

Today: fossil jet fuel powers a sector that is hard to electrify and set to double by 2050. EcoPlanet: sustainable aviation fuel from bamboo grown on degraded land. Stage: in development. Renewable Fuels →

Shipping and heavy transport

Today: ships and heavy-duty transport cannot readily be electrified and still burn fossil fuel. EcoPlanet: renewable liquid fuel from the same bamboo biomass. Stage: in development. Renewable Fuels →

Advisory Practice

We take on a small number of projects each year.

Reliable knowledge on growing and managing bamboo at commercial scale barely exists outside China. Our team built it the hard way, across species, geographies and certification standards, and has put it to work for governments, corporations, developers and non-profits.

We work selectively, with entrepreneurs and projects we believe can make a real difference, and we would rather help a few of them properly than spread the team thin. If that sounds like what you are building, we would like to hear about it.

Consulting and Advisory

National bamboo feasibility and value chain studies, GIS and remote sensing, plantation management plans, restoration design, and carbon quantification and project documentation for bamboo.

Plantation Management

Ongoing management services for early-stage bamboo operations across geographies, tailored to each project, from nursery development through full-scale plantation build-out.

Sustainable Value Chains

Guidance for governments, companies, and non-profits on keeping bamboo value chains green from seed to sale, including selection of manufacturing technologies designed for bamboo's unique properties.

Start a conversation →

Build with bamboo.

Whether you are planning future fibre offtake or a manufacturing partnership, the conversation starts here.

Talk to the team →See the fuel pathway →

Newsroom

EcoPlanet in the press.

A decade of coverage, talks, and recognition.

Selected coverage

TEDxBoston · 2026

"Why electrification alone won't get us to net zero"

Camille Rebelo's case for bamboo as the feedstock of the post-fossil economy.

Watch the talk →

Lionesses of Africa · 2023

"An eco-preneur passionate about forest conservation"

A cover feature on Camille Rebelo's journey building a continent-spanning restoration company.

Read the profile →

The Benchmark · 2025

"A scalable solution to deforestation and rural poverty"

How the co-founders built an answer to the world's fibre demand on land nothing else would use.

Read the story →

UNC Kenan Institute

"Growing Fast: The Story of EcoPlanet Bamboo"

A long-form look at the founding, the conscious-capitalism model, and triple-bottom-line returns.

Read the story →

Sublime Magazine · 2015

"Bamboo Prophet"

An early profile of co-founder Troy Wiseman and the triple-bottom-line company he set out to build.

Read the profile →

World Bank

Camille Rebelo on restoring degraded land at scale

The World Bank features EcoPlanet's co-founder on bamboo, carbon, and development finance.

Read on World Bank →

ProAgri · 2023

"Bamboo promotes conservation, forestry, and agriculture"

Coverage of EcoPlanet's expansion and the case for bamboo as a regenerative crop.

Read the feature →

African Wildlife Foundation

"Baby bamboo plants restore mountain gorilla habitat"

AWF on the Volcanoes National Park restoration with EcoPlanet in Rwanda.

Read the story →

MIGA · World Bank Group

Investment guarantees for EcoPlanet expanded to $48.8M

The World Bank's political-risk arm backs EcoPlanet's operations in Nicaragua.

Read the release →

Agri Investor

MIGA increases EcoPlanet Bamboo guarantee

Coverage of the expanded World Bank guarantee backing the platform.

Read the story →

The details

Questions, answered.

Carbon buyers Governments Landholders Industry Impact partners

For carbon buyers

How permanent are the removals?

Three ways. Harvesting bamboo doesn't kill the plant. The living root system stays in the ground and regrows, so the carbon sink persists through every harvest cycle. A quarter to as much as half of every farm is set aside permanently for native species and conservation. And every project is monitored and re-verified under the VCS for decades, with registry records anyone can audit.

How is the carbon verified?

Every project is developed under the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) administered by Verra, the world's most widely used voluntary carbon program. Projects are independently validated and periodically verified by accredited third parties, and each is listed publicly on the Verra registry, where anyone can inspect the project design, monitoring reports, and issued credits. Several projects also pursue SD VISta assessment of their community and biodiversity co-benefits.

Why per-hectare project finance instead of per-tonne trading?

Because it's transparent and it aligns incentives. Rather than buying anonymous tonnes from a trader, buyers fund specific, named projects and can see exactly what their capital supports: the land, the planting, the verification. That direct, project-level transparency is why institutional buyers, funds, and governments engage with confidence.

Are these removals or avoidance credits?

Removals. Bamboo and the associated native species physically draw CO₂ out of the atmosphere and store it in biomass and soil as the forest grows. This is a nature-based removal, not an avoidance or "do not cut" credit. This is the credit type most sought after by corporate buyers and the one most aligned with science-based net-zero pathways.

How is permanence handled?

Bamboo is harvested without killing the plant. The root system regenerates and keeps sequestering for decades, so the living carbon sink is maintained rather than felled. A quarter to as much as half of every farm is permanently set aside for conservation, and projects carry the standard VCS buffer-pool contributions that insure against reversal across the program.

What's the verification and delivery cadence?

Carbon accrues as the forest grows, with independent verification events on a multi-year cadence typical of nature-based projects. Issuance builds over each project's lifetime, so forward agreements can be structured against a credible, modeled delivery schedule that's grounded in fifteen years of real planting data.

What co-benefits come with the credits?

Substantial ones, and they're certified rather than asserted: 99%+ local hiring, roughly half of management roles held by women, jobs in regions of extreme unemployment, community health and water infrastructure, and biodiversity restoration. EcoPlanet is a UN Global Compact signatory contributing to 11 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Buyers can weight the impact story toward the outcomes their stakeholders care about.

How large is the available supply?

The four most recent projects alone represent roughly 7.5 million tonnes of CO₂e in lifetime issuance, with projects across five countries and additional geographies in development. Volume and timing can be discussed against your target horizon.

How does contracting work?

Most engagements are forward offtake agreements: multi-year contracts for future delivery, structured against each project's modeled issuance schedule. Every engagement is shaped to the buyer: vintages, volumes, geography, and the impact outcomes you want to stand behind. For projects already delivering, current-vintage conversations are equally welcome. This mirrors where the market itself is heading. Forward contracting for high-integrity nature-based removals grew sharply in 2025 and is now the dominant structure for buyers.

What happens if a project under-delivers?

Three layers of protection. First, delivery schedules are modeled conservatively from fifteen years of real planting and growth data, not best-case projections. Second, every project contributes to the VCS buffer pool, the program-wide insurance mechanism against reversals. Third, the portfolio itself spans five countries on three continents, diversifying weather, operational, and political risk in a way no single-project developer can.

Is there a minimum engagement?

EcoPlanet works at institutional scale, so engagements are typically multi-year and project-scale rather than retail purchases. That said, if you're early in scoping your strategy, reach out anyway: shaping an offering around a buyer's stage and priorities is exactly what the team does.

Can we visit the projects?

Yes. EcoPlanet operates real farms with real teams on the ground in all five countries, and welcomes buyer and investor visits as part of diligence. Every project also links directly to its public Verra registry record for remote verification.

For governments and development institutions

How do new projects begin in a new country?

With precedent. EcoPlanet built a national bamboo public-private partnership with the Ghana Forestry Commission and contributes to AFR100 and Initiative 20×20 restoration commitments. New geographies begin with three ingredients: genuinely degraded land, communities ready to partner, and aligned institutions. If your region has all three, the team welcomes early conversations. Select "Government / institutional" in the form.

For landholders and local partners

We have degraded land. Could EcoPlanet develop a project here?

Possibly. Outreach like this is how the best conversations start. EcoPlanet adds new geographies selectively, and three things matter most: genuinely degraded land at meaningful scale, communities ready to partner from day one, and clarity on land tenure and authority. If that sounds like your situation, write to us with the location, the approximate hectares, the land's current status and tenure, and who holds the authority to act. The more of that picture you send, the faster the team can give you a real answer.

For industrial and offtake partners

We need certified biomass, fibre, or fuel feedstock at scale. Can EcoPlanet supply?

That's what the platform was built for. EcoPlanet grows industrial bamboo with a certification heritage few feedstocks can match, and partnership conversations span renewable fuels, materials, fibre, and manufacturing. Tell us what you make, the volumes you need, and your timeline, then select "Fuel or offtake partnership" in the contact form, and the conversation continues with the team, under NDA where appropriate.

For impact and philanthropic capital

How does impact and philanthropic funding work?

Directly. EcoPlanet's project-finance structure means capital is deployed into the named project it funds: land preparation, planting, local employment, community infrastructure, and the certification that verifies all of it, never a trading book or general overhead. Outcomes are reported through independently certified frameworks rather than self-assessment, and engagements can be shaped around a funder's specific thesis: biodiversity, gender equity, livelihoods, or climate. Select "Philanthropy / impact funding" in the contact form to start.

About the platform

Is it only bamboo?

Bamboo-led, not bamboo-only. The platform is degraded-land restoration with the right species for each ecology. The proof is already on the registry: the Spekboom project (VCS 3628) restores native Albany thicket in South Africa's Eastern Cape using spekboom, an indigenous succulent, with no bamboo involved. Bamboo remains the commercial backbone because nothing else pairs its growth rate with its harvest economics. But where another native system is the right answer for the land, that's what gets planted. More on the platform beyond bamboo →

Still have questions?

Let's get them answered.

Tell us your priorities and we'll route you to the right person on the team.

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← Impact

South Africa · Eastern Cape

Restore a biodiversity hotspot. Invest in the town beside it.

The Eastern Cape Restoration Project, spanning Sand River Sanctuary and neighbouring farms near Somerset East and Pearston, brings back the Albany Subtropical Thicket with spekboom and bamboo, anchored in one of the province’s most under-served towns.

Goals this project advances

The biome

Albany Subtropical Thicket, a global biodiversity hotspot, restored with spekboom (Portulacaria afra) and bamboo.

Backed by

$8.6M World Bank Group (MIGA) cover for the Eastern Cape investment, 2015. Public · Engineering News

Verified carbon

Two Verra projects: VCS 3627 (spekboom, fully sold) and VCS 3628, together forming an elephant and rhino sanctuary, measured against Verra’s SD VISta social standard.

On the ground

What restoration looks like when it reaches the household.

In the Eastern Cape, impact is paced to the multi-decade life of the restoration. Impact is designed into the project and quantified against SD VISta indicators.

A worker outside the Sand River Sanctuary main office, Eastern Cape

01 · Skills and leadership

Desiree Makwente: from general worker to safety leader

Desiree joined Sand River as a fixed-term general worker and stood out for how she looked after her colleagues. EcoPlanet backed her through SAMTRAC, a health-and-safety qualification recognised across Africa, and mentored her into a safety-leadership role. In 2026 she became one of two staff trained to help lead the site’s new Black Soldier Fly circular-economy facility. Her path is the project’s promise in one person: build skills and leadership that stay with local people.

SDG 4 · EducationSDG 5 · Gender equalitySDG 8 · Decent work

Workers turning compost on the Eastern Cape estate

02 · Health

Two more consultation rooms for a town’s only clinic

Pearston is served by a single health clinic. In 2025 the project expanded the Gracey Clinic with two fully serviced consultation rooms (power, air conditioning and plumbing ready for immediate use), plus a sheltered waiting area, designed together with the Department of Health and the local ward councillor. It builds on a mobile clinic EcoPlanet brought to the farm so workers could see a nurse without losing a day’s pay.

SDG 3 · HealthSDG 11 · CommunitiesSDG 17 · Partnerships

Workers at Sand River with harvested vegetables

03 · Food security

A town 100 km from fresh produce grows its own

Pearston residents travel roughly 100 km for fresh produce. The garden and growhouse at Sand River, which began as worker training, now supply Swiss chard, beetroot, carrots and more to workers, local schools, day-care centres and Pearston’s soup kitchens. Workers trained in vegetable production, worm-tea fertilisation and post-harvest handling, and each took home repurposed tyres to start a garden of their own. At Lukhanyiso Primary, a rainwater-harvesting system and a school growhouse now feed the meal programme, with learners growing and taking home their own spinach and lettuce.

SDG 2 · Zero hungerSDG 6 · WaterSDG 4 · EducationSDG 12 · Responsible production

Bringing back the thicket, and protecting it forever

Two Verra carbon projects here: VCS 3627, now fully sold, and VCS 3628, together form an elephant and rhino sanctuary across the restored land. Overgrazed farmland is being restored with densely planted native spekboom, which rebuilds vegetation, stabilises soils and stores carbon, with riparian corridors replanted in indigenous species. EcoPlanet has applied to have Sand River declared a Protected Environment under South Africa’s Protected Areas Act: legal protection in perpetuity for a landscape sheltering CITES- and IUCN-listed species, including cycads, with neighbours intending to follow. A beekeeping programme rounds it out, with spekboom honey on the way.

SDG 15 · Life on landSDG 13 · ClimateSDG 8 · Decent work

The women of the Kamva Lembokodo bakery, Pearston

Women’s forums, a micro-bakery and trade scholarships

A women’s forum at Sand River gives female workers a platform to raise concerns and celebrate together. On Bosch Farm, women trained in baking and small-business skills, and a group formed a co-operative and registered Kamva Lembokodo, the town’s own bakery. Ikamva, the future; imbokodo, women’s strength. Two young people from Pearston are on full trade scholarships in electrical studies and welding, with tuition, accommodation and stipends covered, and community members have trained as accredited Nature Guides.

Visit the bakery ↗

SDG 5 · Gender equalitySDG 4 · EducationSDG 8 · Decent workSDG 1 · No poverty

Explore the portfolio

Learn more about our impact across the globe.

Back to Impact →See the carbon portfolio

← Impact

Ghana · Ashanti Region

Forests restored. Careers, water and schools built alongside.

The North Bandai and Bandai Hills Bamboo Reforestation Projects, a public-private partnership with the Government of Ghana since 2015, across the forest-fringe communities of the Ashanti Region.

Goals this project advances

The partnership

A public-private partnership with the Government of Ghana, in place since 2015.

Signature stat

Within weeks of signing in 2015, EcoPlanet built a million-plant nursery, trained 500 first-time formal workers and created over 1,000 long-term jobs. Public · Green Shoots Vol VII, 2016

Standards

Two reforestation projects, delivered with the Ghana Forestry Commission.

On the ground

Restoration that built whole communities.

In Ghana, a deep, decade-long development programme runs alongside fast-growing bamboo. Impact is designed into the project and quantified against SD VISta indicators.

01 · Careers

Three careers that started in the forest

Philomena Yayra rose from worker to supervisor of the regenerative Demonstration Farm and earned a diploma in tropical agriculture. John Bio went from tricycle driver to monitoring team leader on a higher-education bursary. Rose Alor is completing an electrical-engineering apprenticeship, with an internship at the Electricity Company of Ghana. Careers that began in the forest and kept going.

SDG 4 · EducationSDG 5 · Gender equalitySDG 8 · Decent work

Watering a newly planted seedling in the Ashanti Region, Ghana

02 · Water and sanitation

Clean water and dignity, community by community

Mentukwa once drew its drinking water from the Afram River; a new borehole gave the village clean water for the first time. In Odoayaase, a mechanised borehole with filtration followed. Toilet blocks have gone up community by community: Odoayaase, Oseikrom-Mankala, Brefa Onyemso, Boamah Krom, and Ananekrom, several on land granted by traditional chiefs through Free, Prior and Informed Consent.

SDG 6 · WaterSDG 3 · HealthSDG 16 · Consent

Field staff playing volleyball at camp, Ghana

03 · Culture

World Bamboo Day and the enstoolment of ‘Nana Sumpa’

Every September, EcoPlanet hosts one of Ghana's largest World Bamboo Day celebrations: seminars with the Forestry Commission, school drama, sport, and the handover of completed projects: a classroom block, a computer lab, teachers' housing, a community centre. In 2024, the chief of Oseikrom and his elders enstooled EcoPlanet's Managing Director as ‘Nana Sumpa’ in recognition of the company's commitment to the communities.

SDG 4 · EducationSDG 11 · CommunitiesSDG 17 · Partnerships

Women-led micro-enterprises: beads, dressmaking and soap

Three communities launched enterprises in trades they chose themselves: traditional glass-bead making, dressmaking, and bar and liquid soap production, most participants women, each group given a workspace and starter equipment on land allocated by traditional leaders.

SDG 5 · Gender equalitySDG 8 · Decent workSDG 1 · No poverty

Picking chillies grown alongside the plantation, Ghana

Schools that feed and teach

Vegetable growhouses feed learners at Bebuso and Aberewapong schools; kitchen gardens improve food security for households in North Bandai; and the Eco-Guardians school clubs have children leading debates, planting fruit trees and learning regenerative gardening first-hand.

SDG 2 · Zero hungerSDG 4 · EducationSDG 15 · Life on land

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Rwanda · Eight districts

Riverbanks restored. Children fed from their own gardens.

The Rwanda Riparian Restoration Project, replanting degraded riverbanks with giant clumping bamboo across eight districts — Ngororero, Karongi, Muhanga, Ruhango, Nyamagabe, Kamonyi, Nyaruguru and Gisagara — in partnership with the Rwanda Water Resources Board.

Goals this project advances

Registered

Verified Carbon Standard, Project 3072, with impact quantified against Verra's SD VISta social standard.

The commitment

A 40-year restoration commitment (2022–2062), grown from a 2019–2021 pilot with the Water Resources Board.

Signature stat

A school growhouse at an Early Childhood Development centre now supports 378 children, who reported food-secure days rising from 12 a month to 20.

On the ground

Food, water and schools, chosen by the community.

In Rwanda, community programmes run alongside a conservation partnership. Impact is designed into the project and quantified against SD VISta indicators.

01 · Food security

A growhouse feeding 378 children

At an Early Childhood Development centre, EcoPlanet built a netted growhouse that grows produce year-round: raised beds, composting, worm-tea fertiliser, with crops chosen to fight iron deficiency in young children. Harvests go straight into school meals, and the site doubles as a living classroom. Beneficiaries reported food-secure days rising from 12 a month to 20.

SDG 2 · Zero hungerSDG 3 · HealthSDG 4 · Education

02 · Regenerative farming

A communal regenerative farm

Beside the Nyabitare River, smallholders turned conventionally farmed plots into a communal regenerative farm: a multi-layered agroforestry system with an on-site nursery and earthworm composting. The farmers are trained to run it themselves, so what is being built is capability rather than a hand-out. Every farmer kept a household food garden through the transition, and the group elected its own cooperative leadership and secured supply agreements with local restaurants and schools.

SDG 2 · Zero hungerSDG 12 · Responsible productionSDG 5 · Gender equalitySDG 15 · Life on land

Schoolchildren beside the cabbage beds at a Rwandan school

03 · Water

Clean water at school: Gitega and Bukiro

Gitega Primary, which had no water for handwashing, got running taps in 2025, serving the school and the surrounding community, with maintenance guaranteed under a district-government MOU. Taps followed at Bukiro Secondary, a priority the community itself flagged.

SDG 6 · WaterSDG 3 · HealthSDG 5 · Gender equalitySDG 17 · Partnerships

60 household gardens, 120 people trained

Across eight districts, 120 community members trained in sustainable gardening: raised beds, composting, worm-tea fertiliser and diversified cropping. Sixty household vegetable gardens were established from that training, benefiting 295 people, with households drawn from the Government’s Sustainable Graduation Database so the most vulnerable came first.

SDG 2 · Zero hungerSDG 5 · Gender equalitySDG 1 · No poverty

12 teachers, 400 children taught

Head teachers, ECD and primary teachers, five community health workers and local officials trained together on climate change, composting and raised-bed gardening. Twelve teachers now carry the lessons into their classrooms, reaching 400 children, where the baseline was none: the primary curriculum had covered neither climate education nor sustainable gardening.

SDG 4 · EducationSDG 13 · ClimateSDG 2 · Zero hunger

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Nicaragua · Atlantic Coast

Where it all began. The world's first bamboo carbon.

EcoPlanet's founding plantations (Rio Kama, Rio Siquia and San Jose on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast) restoring degraded cattle pasture into certified bamboo forest since 2010.

Goals this project advances

Signature stat

In 2012, among the first bamboo projects to achieve VCS alongside CCB certification, with 816,000 tonnes of CO₂ initially validated. Public · Rainforest Alliance

Audited by

The Rainforest Alliance, which audited the world-first triple certification.

Backed by

$27M in World Bank Group (MIGA) investment guarantees for the plantations, 2012.

On the ground

The founding story, still on the public record.

In Nicaragua, the founding project, community and conservation work has run alongside the plantations since 2010. Impact is designed into the project and quantified against SD VISta indicators.

01 · World first

A world first for bamboo carbon

In November 2012, EcoPlanet's Central America Project became the first audited by the Rainforest Alliance to achieve VCS alongside CCB certification. Bamboo had long sat in a grey area between agriculture and forestry; EcoPlanet developed the first accurate methods for measuring its carbon, helping put bamboo on the map as a legitimate climate species.

SDG 13 · ClimateSDG 15 · Life on landSDG 12 · Responsible production

02 · Recognition

Recognised by the U.S. Secretary of State

EcoPlanet received the U.S. Secretary of State's 2014 Award for Corporate Excellence for its Nicaragua operations, one of three winners from nine finalists, cited for sustainable development, labour rights, a 20% natural-habitat set-aside, the employment of people with disabilities, and the promotion of women into management.

SDG 8 · Decent workSDG 5 · Gender equalitySDG 10 · Reduced inequalitySDG 15 · Life on land

03 · Dignity of work

A 300% wage rise and a first female supervisor

Communities around Rio Siquia had rarely known formal paid work. During the 2011 planting phase, employment surged and the average daily wage rose 300%. As more women were hired, the plantation's first promotion went to a young woman from the community: Rio Siquia's first female supervisor.

SDG 1 · No povertySDG 5 · Gender equalitySDG 8 · Decent workSDG 10 · Reduced inequality

A decade of community partnership

From 2012, EcoPlanet ran a community development programme shaped by local consultation: a village drinking-water system, school repairs and teacher support, and farm infirmaries open to community emergencies. More recently, a fruit-orchard and food-security programme has distributed grafted fruit trees to worker families and to nine households and the primary school in Río Calderón, with training on tree care and nutrition.

SDG 2 · Zero hungerSDG 6 · WaterSDG 4 · Education

From pasture to forest, and a tree-free mill

By 2015, EcoPlanet had restored thousands of hectares of degraded land, a model showcased at COP21 for Nicaragua's Initiative 20x20, and set aside primary tropical forest for conservation, anchoring a vision for a tree-free bamboo bio-refinery and paper mill.

SDG 15 · Life on landSDG 9 · IndustrySDG 12 · Responsible production

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Philippines · Lanao del Sur

The newest chapter. Built by listening first.

The Lanao del Sur Bamboo Reforestation Project, with Sunriser Peoples Inc. in the Bangsamoro region, across 17 communities of Maranao, Cebuano and Talaandig peoples. Our newest geography, framed around what we are building together.

Goals this project advances

Signature stat

In 2016, the Government of the Philippines invited EcoPlanet to assist its national bamboo road map, part of a 500,000-hectare restoration commitment. Public · Green Shoots Vol VIII, 2017

The approach

Every intervention traces to a 2024 socio-economic assessment across the 17 communities. The communities set the priorities.

Stage

EcoPlanet's newest impact geography: recent wins alongside a clearly-planned forward programme.

On the ground

What we are building together.

In the Philippines, community engagement comes first. We build the relationships and understanding before designing development programmes. Impact is designed into the project and quantified against SD VISta indicators.

Loading seedling crates in Lanao del Sur, Philippines

01 · Sanitation

Communal toilets for Amai Manabilang

In 2025, EcoPlanet completed communal toilet facilities in Amai Manabilang, the project's first community infrastructure, answering a severe sanitation gap identified in the 2024 assessment, with a design adapted to local cultural norms and gender-specific cubicles.

SDG 6 · WaterSDG 3 · HealthSDG 5 · Gender equality

02 · Partnership

Listening first: 17 communities shape the project

The programme is built on consultation. In 2024 the team carried out a socio-economic assessment across a municipality of 17 communities, home to Maranao, Cebuano and indigenous Talaandig peoples, and every intervention now proposed traces directly to needs the communities themselves identified.

SDG 17 · PartnershipsSDG 10 · Reduced inequalitySDG 15 · Life on land

What's ahead

A member of the project team in Lanao del Sur, Philippines

The 2026 community programme Planned

Shaped by the 2024 assessment: communal toilets with rainwater harvesting and solar lighting across three communities; a growhouse at an Early Childhood Development centre modelled on Rwanda's; 10,000 fruit trees; and regenerative model farms whose smallholders become eligible for 25-year Stewardship Certificates, a major land-tenure win.

SDG 6 · WaterSDG 2 · Zero hungerSDG 4 · EducationSDG 1 · Land tenure

Young bamboo rows climbing a hillside in Lanao del Sur, Philippines

A national invitation

In 2016, EcoPlanet received a request from the highest level of the Philippine government to assist the country's bamboo road map, part of a national 500,000-hectare bamboo restoration commitment.

SDG 17 · PartnershipsSDG 15 · Life on land

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Carbon Removal Offering · Verra VCS 3628 · Registered

The Eastern Cape Restoration Project.

Sand River Sanctuary, Somerset East, South Africa. Spekboom thicket restoration, and a future home for elephant and black rhino.

Restoration of degraded former pasture in the Eastern Cape. Together with the neighbouring project, Sand River anchors a contiguous conservation sanctuary of more than 10,000 hectares. The final 1,725-hectare allocation remains available.

Ex ante estimate, 2026–2055. Delivery subject to monitoring, verification and issuance; no VCUs issued to date.

5,665ha

Total project area

10,000+ ha

Conservation sanctuary

30yrs

Project period · 2026–2055

The remaining allocation, available for offtake

1,725haof the project remain unsold

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Why this project

A collapsed landscape, and the plant that brings it back.

Twenty-six kilometres from Pearston, in a semi-arid reach of the Eastern Cape, lies land a century of overgrazing left economically unviable: former grazing farms stripped of the native subtropical thicket that once covered them. The Eastern Cape Restoration Project is bringing that ecosystem back, replanting Portulacaria afra (spekboom). The farm runs to 6,145 hectares, of which 5,665 is the carbon project area, and 3,470 hectares have been planted so far. With the expanded Vaalklip farm alongside it, the restoration spans more than 10,000 hectares. The thicket it rebuilds supports 1,500 plant species, three hundred of them found nowhere else on Earth.

A worker placing a spekboom cutting into the ground, Sand River — Planting spekboom cuttings by hand: the restoration method in one frame.

Why spekboom

Spekboom is one of the defining species of South Africa’s subtropical thicket, and uniquely suited to restoring it. It forms a dense evergreen canopy that holds soil moisture, halts erosion and shelters other native species as they return. Through a water-thrifty form of photosynthesis, it opens its pores at night to keep drawing down carbon while losing almost no water, making it extraordinarily drought-tolerant where little else survives. It grows from cuttings, so establishment needs no irrigation; and as the canopy closes, soils recover, organic matter builds, and the ecosystem begins to heal itself.

A measurable contribution to climate

This is removal, not avoidance: physical carbon drawn down into biomass and soil. Scientific studies estimate that intact spekboom thicket can store more than 200 tonnes of carbon per hectare, and that restored sites can approach those levels within 35 to 50 years, given favourable conditions and well-managed browsing. The risks the science flags (frost, poor soils, uncontrolled browsing) are actively mitigated here, on a project grounded in peer-reviewed research.

As the thicket returns, so does the wildlife it shelters. Together with the neighbouring project, this land is becoming a contiguous conservation sanctuary of more than 10,000 hectares, a future home for the African elephant and the critically endangered black rhino.

The essentials

Registration

Dual registration: Verra VCS 3628 and the South Africa National Carbon Registry.

Planting window

1,725 hectares of spekboom planted across three seasons, 2026 to 2028.

Delivery profile

First issuance 2030, then triennial verification through to 2055.

Permanence

100-year permanence. Spekboom thicket is restored rather than harvested, so the carbon is committed to the land for a century.

Methodology

Registered under AR-ACM0003, migrating to VM0047.

Diligence pack

Full technical materials are available under NDA: the validated project design document, carbon accumulation model and monitoring plan.

Beyond the carbon

The community work it supports.

Advancing 13 of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, quantified under SD VISta

In the Eastern Cape, impact is paced to the multi-decade life of the restoration, designed into the project and quantified against SD VISta indicators.

Restoration at this scale puts hundreds of people in Pearston back to work, and thanks to existing partners like Volkswagen ClimatePartner, the community programme is already resourced for the full thirty-year life of the sanctuary. It runs today, so a buyer joins work that is already working, not work that needs underwriting. Quantified against Verra’s SD VISta standard.

Worker Co-op Garden

A worker-owned garden on the farm. Everything it grows goes to feeding the workforce and their families, not to market.

Soup Kitchen

Equipment for the Pearston soup kitchen, increasing the number of hot meals it can serve each week.

Worm Farm and Worm Tea

On-site vermiculture producing worm castings and worm tea, an organic fertilizer that feeds the gardens and returns organic matter to depleted ground.

Home Garden Beds

Garden beds built at workers’ own homes, with training in growing fruit and vegetables, so food security follows them home.

Employment

Permanent and seasonal work in nurseries, cutting preparation, planting and monitoring, in one of South Africa’s highest-unemployment districts.

Skills and Training

Training in ecological restoration, horticulture and enterprise, capability that stays in Pearston long after planting is complete.

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Kamva Lembokodo Bakery

Ten local women own the town’s bakery, a registered co-operative putting fresh food within reach in a food desert.

Worker co-op garden

A worker-owned garden on the farm. Everything it grows goes to feeding the workforce and their families, not to market.

Skills and training

Training in ecological restoration, horticulture and enterprise: capability that stays in Pearston long after planting is complete.

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15yrs

Operating track record

40,000+ ha

Under management

21M+

tCO₂e over project lifecycles

1,800+

Rural jobs created

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Carbon Removal Offering · Verra VCS 2958 · Registered

The Lanao del Sur Bamboo Reforestation Project.

Lanao del Sur, Mindanao, Philippines. Native bamboo restoring an upland montane watershed, and anchoring a long-term peace.

The project covers an 8,360-hectare project area on the island of Mindanao: 5,000 hectares of native bamboo reforestation alongside 1,200 hectares of native tree reforestation, 1,000 hectares of conservation, and 620 hectares of regenerative smallholder farms worked with the 600 families who live here.

This offering covers 4,000 of the bamboo hectares. Launched in 2022, it became the second project in the Philippines ever registered by Verra, and 1,600 hectares are already planted and growing, implemented by EcoPlanet's own trained team of more than 220 people on the ground.

8,360ha

Total project area

1,600ha

Planted 2022 to 2025

2,400ha

To plant 2026 to 2028

2.55MtCO₂e

Projected, this 4,000 ha offering

Open for allocation

4,000haoffered as a single exclusive allocation

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Projected removals across this offering. Delivery subject to monitoring, verification and issuance. Full technical materials, delivery schedules and commercial terms are shared under NDA.

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Why this project

A watershed restored, a province rebuilding.

Decades of conflict and instability left Lanao del Sur with degraded uplands and few formal jobs. Reforestation at this scale changes both. The project employs 225 people, 35 percent of them women, and pairs every planted hectare with investment in the families who live in the watershed.

Three workers potting bamboo seedlings in the project nursery, Lanao del Sur — Nursery work in Lanao del Sur: every seedling the project plants is raised locally.

A landscape, not a plantation

The bamboo sits inside an 8,360-hectare mosaic of conservation, native tree restoration and regenerative smallholder farming, with 1,000 hectares held under conservation.

Technology-driven monitoring

AI-enabled drones, live dashboards and real-time monitoring measure planting and carbon across every hectare, supporting the MRV an accredited body then verifies.

The essentials