Disclosure of Project Stage

The NFS will clearly indicate the stage each project has reached.

Publicly Available Project Documentation

All relevant project documentation shall be transparently published and made readily accessible in the Project Index for easy reference. The documents required to be made publicly available for each NFS project are:

  • Project Idea Note (PIN)
  • Project Design Document (PDD)
  • Validation Report
  • Validation Statement
  • Verification Report for each verification period
  • Verification Statement for each verification period
  • Project Implementation Reports for each verification period.

Project Index

Project ID: NFS001
Project Name: Trocano Araretama Conservation Project
Location: Municipality of Borba, Amazonas, Brazil
Project Proponent: Go Balance Ltd (2015)
Current Stage: Verification Complete for Years 1-5

Project Summary

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The Trocano Araretama Conservation Project area is made up of three distinct project areas, totalling 1,346,541ha. It is located in the Municipality of Santo Antônio de Borba, which is positioned on the banks of the most important tributary in the southern Amazon Basin, the Madeira River. The project area is 208 km south east of the state capital Manaus. The main objective of the Trocano Araretama Conservation Project is to avoid deforestation and degradation of natural forests in the project area and region.

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PIN Document
This PIN provides a brief summary of the Trocano Araretama Conservation Project and identifies the main features and objectives of the project, the parties involved and the proposed project activities
Project Design Document
This Project Design Document describes the Trocano Araretama Conservation Project in detail, including the main features and objectives of the project and the projects activities
Validation Documentation
Please follow this link to view all validation documentation which was completed on 20th March 2013.
Year 1: Verification Documentation
Please follow this link to view the Project Implementation Report for the period 10th June 2011 to 20th May 2013 and all verification documentation relating to the period of 10th June 2011- 31st July 2012.
Year 2: Verification Documentation
Please follow this link to view all the Project Implementation Report for the period 21st May 2013 - 31st July 2013 and all annual verification documentation for the period 1st August 2012 to 31 July 2013.
Year 3 to 5: Verification Documentation
Please follow this link to view the Project Implementation Report for the period 1st August 2013 to 31st July 2016 and all annual verification documentation for the corresponding period.
Project ID: NFS002
Project Name:Conservation of Cusuco National Park and the Meredón Reserve
Location: Sierra de Omoa, Honduras
Project Proponent:Queen's University, Belfast/Opwall Trust
Current Stage: PIN document submitted and accepted for publication

Project Summary

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Cusuco National Park and the Meredón Reserve consist of lowland tropical rainforest or montane tropical cloud forest. The total project area is 55,588 hectares and is part of the Mesoamerican Biodiversity Hotspot and the Cusuco National Park is recognised by the IUCN as a Key Biodiversity Area. The project is home to a number of endemic species including the endangered Tapirus bairdii. The project is being managed by Queen's University Belfast, the Opwall Trust, and Operation Wallacea Ltd and governed in cooperation with Honduran Governmental Departments and local NGOs. The primary aim of the project is to reduce GHG emissions by avoiding deforestation and degradation and to safeguard the vulnerable biodiversity of the area.

PIN Document
This PIN provides a brief summary of the Cusuco National Park and the Meredón Conservation Project and identifies the main features and objectives of the project, the parties involved and the proposed project activities.
Project ID: NFS003 - Application Withdrawn
Project Name:Madeirinhas Conservation Project
Location: Amazonas, Brazil

The Madeirinhas Conservation Project has been withdrawn

Information Requests

Occasionally, project or program information that is required to be present on the Natural Forest Standard website may be unintentionally missing. In such instances, anyone may contact the NFS via our Contact Us page to request that the information be made available. The procedure for handling these requests is as follows: 1. Upon receiving a request, the NFS team will acknowledge receipt within two weeks, including a determination on the public availability of the requested information. 2. Should it be necessary to make the information publicly accessible, the NFS team aims to publish it within four weeks of receiving the request. If external dependencies or data protection requirements extend this timeline, the NFS team will communicate any delays to the original requestor.