What we do
One project, from the ground up.
Orateva develops forest carbon projects directly, from the first conversations in a territory through to independent verification.
Scope
What a project includes
Reforestation, conservation, community partnership and carbon belong to a single project. They are designed together, carried out together, and monitored together over time.
Splitting them into separate offers would make each one weaker. A planting programme without a governance agreement does not survive its second year. A carbon file without field measurement cannot be verified. A community partnership without real work to organise has nothing to hold on to.
- Territory diagnosis, soils, existing forest and current practices
- Community agreements, governance and benefit sharing
- Nursery production, site preparation, planting and maintenance
- Monitoring, reporting and verification under the VCS
- Preparation of financing and certification files
Activities
Reforestation and conservation, chosen by the site
The right activity is the one the land can sustain. On a single project, several usually coexist.
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Assisted natural regeneration
Where a seed source remains, protecting and helping what is already coming back costs less and holds better than planting from scratch.
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Native species planting
Queñua and other high Andean natives, grown in local nurseries, planted where erosion and water retention make the strongest case.
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Conservation of standing forest
Remaining stands are often more valuable than anything that can be replanted. Protecting them is part of the project, not a separate one.
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Agroforestry and grazing management
Trees have to coexist with the farming and grazing that already feed the community. Where they do not, neither survives.
Carbon
Where carbon fits
Carbon finance is what allows the work to be paid for over the twenty or thirty years a forest project actually takes.
It is a funding mechanism, not the purpose. A project designed to maximise credits and nothing else tends to plant the wrong species in the wrong places, and to lose the people it depends on.
Orateva develops its projects under the Verified Carbon Standard, administered by Verra. Design, independent validation, registration and verification are distinct stages, and we name which one a project has actually reached.