Water credits putumayo

Water, our water credit, and climate action

Water credits are one of our six payment layers for smallfarmers and indigenous groups guarding tropical forest.

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Amazon water credits

Our water credits represent 100 meters of conserved or regenerated waterway in tropical forests, bonus points if it hosts a dragonfly, the apex predator of the insect world.

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  • “Despite only stewarding 22% of the world’s land, Indigenous territories protect 80% of the planet’s biodiversity. These lands are also estimated to contain 36% of the world’s remaining intact forests.”

    —Fitri Arianti, Rainforest Action Network using World Bank data

  • “We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.”

    —David Foreman

  • “Scientists were startled in 1980 by the discovery of a tremendous diversity of insects in tropical forests. In one study of just 19 trees in Panama, 80% of the 1,200 beetle species discovered were previously unknown to science... Surprisingly, scientists have a better understanding of how many stars there are in the galaxy than how many species there are on Earth.”

    —World Resources Institute

  • “The rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate.”

    —World Wildlife Fund

  • “Drug discovery from wild species has always been, and will continue to be one of the most critical for most if not all aspects of health care, disease prevention, and wellness.”

    —Neergheen-Bhujun et al., Journal of Global Health