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Institute of Forest Conservation, Protection Supports Initiatives

San Marcos de Colon, Choluteca .- Responding to the demands of initiatives for the protection and sustainable use of protected areas and private forests, the Executive Director of the National Institute of Forest Conservation and Development, Protected Areas and Wildlife (ICF), José Trinidad Suazo, participated in Project socialization selling carbon credits in the voluntary market.

The implementation of these projects will serve to add value to goods and environmental services that forests provide, by harnessing the natural process of photosynthesis, trees and plants perform as well as ensure that foreign currency entering the country, will see improvements in the quality of air and water, as well as improving the living conditions of families benefiting from the project.

To start the project, has selected the multi-purpose area mountain La Botija, land protected national forest and private land tenure, considered one of the most important water reserves in southern country possesses a rich biodiversity and a Forest Producers Association of Mountain Protected Area of \u200b\u200bLa Botija, APROBOSQUE.

South East Coal Company Management, will be in charge of verification using satellite imagery and field of forest area and density, as well as the presence of grassland With the exception of temporary agricultural crops are not eligible: this as a step towards developing a management plan, business plan and the willingness of owners to have reclaimed their titles property.

volumes are identified and captured carbon per hectare or apple set the forest and grassland can generate, the owners will sign a 30-year contract through which annually receive a pension or payment agreed with the purchaser for each tonne of carbon that set your property.

income received will be distributed as follows: on a background check by natural or human risk of loss of forest, the commission to the intermediary (South East Carbon), a percentage to be assigned to management the protected area, including fees payable, with confidence that more than 60 percent of income payable to the landowner and the forest.

This project is part of the considerations and recommendations of the Kyoto Protocol to the Framework Convention on Climate Change, held in 1997. In which industrialized countries pledged to reduce their emissions of greenhouse gases and others, with respect to 1990 levels by 5.2 percent in general, by the year 2010.

The meeting was attended by the Presidential Commissioner for the South, Omar Guillen, the Deputy Commissioner, Dennis Garcia, the Mayor of San Marcos de Colon, Douglas Ordonez, President of APROBOSQUE, Eleazar Third, representatives of the Honduran Network of Private Nature Reserves, REHNAP and company representatives Jeremy Walters, Richard Mitchell and Dean Ward, among others .