Help us to take care of 11 million trees in Cusco

Project "More Trees"- Carbon Credits

Phase: Research

Dear Donors,

Research " this has been the key word for the project.

All these months we have been working on the design and execution of the necessary studies to meet the requirements of the international standard of Plan Vivo.

The Mas Árboles- Carbon Bonds project, a pioneer in the Southern Sierra of the Peruvian Andes.

Its objective: "To achieve the prosperity of peasant families and the recovery of natural resources, through the establishment of forest plantations in the province of Paruro, which generate ecosystem goods and services for peasant families and communities. That is, improvements in soil fertility, water harvesting, fungi, carbon bonds, wood, among others”.

Intervention areas and participating communities of the More Trees Project

• Cusco Region
• 2 Provinces Paruro and Chumbivilcas
• 5 Districts: Accha, Ccapi, Huanoquite, Omacha and Ccapacmarca.
• 35 Peasant communities
• 4000 Peasant families

The Mas Árboles project has 3 components, by 2024

1. Researching
2. Plantations
3. Sale of carbon credits

Together with the 35 peasant communities we are working on the development of the following studies:

Protection of archaeological areas and Inca roads

Having in mind that the project is being carried out in the region of Cusco-  it has in mind multiple areas declared as cultural heritage - which require measures to prevent, avoid, control, reduce and mitigate the possible negative impacts on pre-Hispanic, historical or paleontological vestiges and other assets of the Nation’s Cultural Heritage. Our project is taking all the precautions to protect such areas. Even though our project is considered low impact.

In this regard, we have asked the Ministry of Culture to establish an inter-institutional alliance within the framework of the development of the Mas Arboles project.

Social and EconomicStudy:

It aims to identify the relevant socioeconomic parameters that can facilitate or hinder the development and success of the project. Additionally, it will raise the issues that should receive special attention regarding the initial forecasts to consider at the beginning of the implementation of the Project . These will allow us to make timely, better informed decisions on important issues such as value chains, social and economic organization and interconnectivity and the existence of risks, among others.

The field team interviewed more than 400 families among the 35 peasant communities that make up the project. It has been hard work of a lot of commitment to achieve this in a short period of time.

The team is now in the process of tabulation and data analysis.

Plantation Management Plan:

Is the planning document, which describes the characteristics of forest resources that will be used and conserved within a given area, as well as the activities that the community must carry out to ensure the correct use of these resources. Consider pruning, thinning, fertilization, baseline, monitoring, soil sampling, among others.

Baseline of Planting Areas:

The baseline is the current state of the area in which a project will be developed. Includes a detailed description of the socio-environmental attributes or characteristics of the project area, including natural hazards that could affect its viability.

BaselineofPlantingAreas:

 The Geographic Information System (GIS) team has done a lot of work, producing different types of maps of the project area:

•Preliminary map of georeferenced areas

•Map of Water Bodies

•Map of Conservation Areas

•Map of Topography

 •Map of fragile ecosystems

•Map of water bodies and water quality

Areas of conservation:

These are areas that conserve wildlife for the benefit of rural populations, which, through a management plan can make traditional use and sustainable use of the area’s natural resources.

Community Life Plan:

is to empower rural communities to protect and manage their natural resources. Each participant in a program develops its own Communal Plan.

Multi-stakeholder meeting of the “Mas Árboles” project.

The presentation of the project "More Trees"- Carbon Credits, had more than 60 participants, including the owners of the project Peasant Communities, represented by their presidents, treasurers and secretaries, representatives of the District Municipalities of Huanoquite, Ccapi, Omacha, Accha and Ccapacmarca.

In the institutional environment it counted with the participation of officials and servants of the Technical Forest Administration and Wildlife Cusco SERFOR, Institute of Water Management and Environment "IMA", of the Regional Government Environmental Management, Ministry of Culture MINCUL and National Superintendence of Public Records SUNARP, who are committed to the technical assistance needed to achieve the project’s objectives.

Participants had the opportunity to express their views on the project, in a cordial dialogue of consensus and construction for a better future.

• We will continue working these months on research and simultaneously in our nurseries. Production for 2024 will have 2 varieties of patula pine and radiata.
• •Dear donors we look forward to your continued support in our project.

Team Pachamama Raymi

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Dear Donors

Now yes - we are planting thousands of trees!

The rains have arrived in the Peruvian highlands, against all odds due to the climatic effects of the El Niño phenomenon.

More than 2000 farming families in Cusco are very motivated to plant their trees for the future in a communal way.

All these months we have been taking care of the nurseries,

It is a hard work of the Pachamama Raymi team to plan with more than 30 communities and their Forestry Committees the tasks to zone the areas to be planted and those that will have other uses that will also dynamize their economy. Work to mark, mark out and dig holes for the trees.

This year we have been using the Chilean bare root production technique in the nurseries. The night before planting, we have to prepare the plants with hydrogel and compost to guarantee humidity and survival conditions.

In each of the 5 Districts we do the "Lanzamiento Forestal" with the ritual of the Andes, the payment to the earth.  We are accompanied by the authorities of the communities, the Municipality, the National Forestry Service (SERFOR), the Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA) and the National Agricultural Health Service (SENASA).

In many farming communities, they go out into the fields before dawn in order to have a good yield. Each person goes up the mountain with 200 seedlings, their compost and their tools.

Among them is the chaquitaclla, also known as the foot plough, which was one of the most important farming tools in the Andean world. According to archaeological sources, the chaquitaclla is a very ancient instrument, dating back to the beginnings of agriculture in America.

We hope that the rains will continue to accompany us until our plantation is complete.

Then we will be verifying the geo-referencing and making the maps, to give to each community and make them feel prouder and happier of the goals achieved.

Also since October we have been producing 750,000 patula pine seedlings for the 2024 campaign, which will take longer to care for in the nursery. These will go into the field in our next forestry campaign 2024-2025.

- We are grateful to find ourselves in a situation that allows us to continue to serve the farming families.

- We hope to continue to count on your generosity and to continue sowing prosperity! 

- Help us with your donation, tell your loved ones about our project, let's Sow Prosperity!

 BLESSINGS

                - TEAM PACHAMAMA RAYMI