Water credits
Buy water credits direct from the headwaters of the Colombian Amazon. Protect everyone downstream — bonus dragonflies!
What we have to sell
Our current stock of 3k credits is a research supply from 18,500 ha collective of >300 indigenous smallfarmers and 2 indigenous groups in the Tropical Andean biodiversity hotspot. Credits have MRV and all farmers have a 30-year conservation contract for shared revenue from sales.
We have >10 indigenous groups in 9 countries in our pipeline in either biodiversity hotspots or IUCN-threatened ecosystems fighting off petroleum and mining incursions with water credits and anticipate providing 20M credits to the global conservation market in the next
5 years.
We will seek certification for our water credits in Q3 of 2023 and are currently accepting letters of intent or presales.
Frequently asked questions
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There is no current certifying standard for water although we are working on a methodology based on the Agua Salud project in Panama. We generate water credits from 100 of restored or protected waterway in a region of the Amazon headwaters which would otherwise be contaminated.
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Using high-res satellite imaging for waterway with primary forest on both sides, reforested waterways with satellite MRV, and/or dragonflies (apex insect) tracking near the waterway.
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We’re glad you asked because this is important to us too. The answer is 50% of biodiversity revenue goes to originating landowner. For Savimbo’s portion, ⅔ of the Savimbo’s founders are local indigenous leaders, 7% of the company is owned by successful growers, and 7% is owned by staff of which >50% is local experts.
