Four movements, in the order they actually happen. Each one produces something the next depends on.
01
Understand the territory
Soils, existing forest, native species, water, and the farming and grazing practices already in place. What the land can carry decides what gets planted.
02
Build the partnership
Roles, commitments, decision-making and benefit sharing are defined with the community members involved, then written into clear agreements.
03
Carry out the work
Nursery production, site preparation, planting, maintenance. Assisted natural regeneration, diversified plantings and agroforestry, chosen to fit the site.
04
Monitor over time
Field measurement, remote sensing and digital collection feed one MRV system, which guides decisions and prepares independent validation and verification.
Local anchoring
The work stays where the forest is.
Running nurseries, preparing sites, planting, maintaining and surveying a project mobilises real work and real skills, and we want as much of it as possible to be held locally.
Jobs, training, activities and benefit sharing are part of how a project is organised, not a side effect of it. They are tracked over time, like any other project indicator.
This is also what makes a project last. A forest that depends on an outside team returning every year is a forest with a deadline.
Measurement
Measured, reported, verified.
A project is only as credible as what can be checked about it.
Field plots, diameter and height measurements, survival counts, satellite imagery and remote sensing are combined into a single monitoring system. The same data guides technical decisions and prepares the certification file.
Orateva develops its carbon projects under the Verified Carbon Standard, administered by Verra. Design, independent validation, registration and verification of results are distinct stages, and we name which one a project has actually reached.
Forest cover and area change
Work carried out and maintained
Ecological indicators defined per project
Jobs, skills, local activity, benefit sharing
Development, validation and verification stages
Risk
What can go wrong, and what we do about it
A forest project runs for decades. Over that time, fire, drought, grazing pressure, land tenure disputes and changes in local priorities are not hypothetical.
They are identified at design stage, discussed with the community, and reflected in how the project is organised: species mix, planting density, firebreaks, grazing agreements, buffer allocation and a monitoring cadence that catches problems early.
Permanence is not a promise made once. It is a set of arrangements that have to keep working.
