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• Certified by Verified Carbon Standard  
• Project has received triple gold Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CBB) status
• The goal of the project is to protect and restore 149,800 hectares of peatland ecosystems, to offer local people sustainable sources of income, and to tackle global climate change
• The project collaborates with Indonesian villages to reduce emissions and also conserve local wildlife populations such as the endangered Bornean orang-utan, Southern Borneans gibbon and proboscis monkey
• Around 43,000 people in 32 communities have also found jobs through partnerships related to this project

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The project helps to contribute to the below United Nations Sustainable Development Goals:

• Certified by Verified Carbon Standard 
• The project aims to restore local degraded grassland ecosystems by seeding grass and fencing up degraded grassland, so carbon sequestration can be increased 
• By restoring grassland vegetation to improve soil carbon storage, it encourages local biodiversity to thrive through grassland management measures, such as rodent and pest control and grassland fire prevention
• Contributes to local development by introducing sustainable grazing and management of grassland, of the 11,727 local herders who participated in the project, more than half are women. These women are trained with sustainable grassland management skills and participate in community activities

The project helps to contribute to the below United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: