{"id":25006,"date":"2023-12-27T12:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T12:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gaialab.org\/?page_id=25006"},"modified":"2024-10-04T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:23:16","slug":"yaeda-deforestation-avoidance-project-in-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gaialab.org\/en\/actions\/global-actions\/yaeda-deforestation-avoidance-project-in-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoided deforestation in Tanzania – Yaeda-Eyasi"},"content":{"rendered":"
Global Actions<\/div>Avoided Deforestation in Tanzania - Yaeda-Eyasi<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>
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The Yaeda-Eyasi project tells a powerful story of ancient indigenous communities, their lands and introduces innovative and ethical mechanisms in the international climate finance.<\/p>\n<\/div>

The Yaeda-Eyasi Landscape project protects\u00a0 110,500 hectares of forests in Northern Tanzania for Indigenous people, wildlife and climate. It is an avoided deforestation project that strengthens land tenure, management capacity and local natural resource management. In addition, it diversifies income for\u00a0 Hadza hunter-gatherer and Datooga pastoralist communities.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>

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Successful avoided deforestation is achieved through a series of interventions: reinforcing the implementation of the approved village land use plan, improving forest conservation and management activities and addressing the primary drivers of deforestation.<\/h5>[vc_empty_space height=”10px”]<\/div><\/div><\/div>

The agreement to reduce deforestation was reached through a land management plan approved by the communities and the training of 40 wildlife guardians. In Tanzania drivers of deforestation, that continues at a 1-2% forest loss per year, lie primarily in the expansion of slash and burn agriculture to give space to crops.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Yaeda Valley<\/a><\/strong> project started in 2011 and it is still operational. So far it has protected \u00a0110,500 hectares of dryland forest in northern Tanzania, the ancestral homeland of the Hadza hunter-gatherers, involving old traditional hunters and gatherer communities in land tenure that belonged to them since ancient times.<\/strong> With the certainty to live on their lands, they implemented projects to reduce deforestation and to educate to wildlife protection. Avoided deforestation, measured through robust and transparent Plan Vivo methodologies<\/a>, resulted in carbon credits sold in the international voluntary market. Partnership with Carbon Tanzania<\/a><\/strong> has allowed to protect 110,500 hectares of forests and to generate carbon credits for $ 577,449\u00a0 providing additional sources of income.<\/strong> The revenue earned from the sale of certified carbon credits is paid directly to forest communities, allowing them to manage their own development needs.\u00a0 These included health care services worth $ 152,764 and education<\/strong>. So far extra income allowed 1382 children to attend a primary school, 222 students a secondary school and paid university fees to 18 students.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benefits of the project included climate change mitigation, land rights and biodiversity conservation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forests in Northern Tanzania host Acacia (Acacia Commiphora<\/em>) and Baobab trees as well as threatened animals like leopards, cheetahs, giraffes, wild dogs.\u00a0 Landscape conservation created\u00a0 also an ecological corridor for wildlife<\/strong> to the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area, a critical
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