Savimbo Biodiversity Credits (Pre-certified)

This pre-certified biodiversity credit follows all the rules. The best science, full land title, and full monitoring, reporting, and verification. Sold direct from Indigenous Peoples and local communities and listing and trading on international exchanges.

You want full credentials and results, this is your credit. 

We expect credits to become certified before the end of this year, using our Cercarbono-approved methodology.

Who we are

Savimbo is a company created by, and for, Indigenous smallfarmers in the Colombian Amazon. 

Our aim is to employ 1 billion Indigenous Peoples and local communities in 10 years to restore the planet. 

Credit stock

Our current stock of 400k biodiversity credits is from a 76,500 hectare collective, located in the Tropical Andean biodiversity hotspot: 

• - This land is managed by a collective consisting of over 250 Indigenous smallholder farmers and four Indigenous groups

• - Species monitoring is conducted for around a year, with indicator species tracked and pre-validated through iNaturalist, before credits are generated

• - The smallholder farmers have signed 30-year conservation contracts that include a 50% revenue share from credit sales

And we’re adding to this stock too!

• - We’re working with more than 12 Indigenous groups across nine countries

• - These areas are located in either biodiversity hotspots or IUCN-threatened ecosystems

• - We’re expecting to generate 178 million credits for the global conservation market over the next five years

What is a biodiversity credit?

We can assess the health of a biodiverse ecosystem by tracking the health of the species at the top of the food chain (typically known as the apex predator). One hectare of an ecosystem protected for a full month constitutes one biodiversity unit. 

Once the data behind this has been collected and verified, and the ecological integrity has been measured, a credit can be issued. In our case, this is based on video evidence of an apex predator or rare species. 

You can find more information on the biodiversity unit and why it's important for global tracking here. 

How much of this revenue goes to locals?

We’re glad you asked because this is important to us too. 

• - 50% of biodiversity revenue goes to the originating landowner. 

• - Of the remaining 50%, 2/3 goes to local indigenous leaders, 1/6 goes to local experts and growers involved in building Savimbo, and the remaining amount covers our operating costs

How do you track impact?

We use an indicator-species biodiversity methodology written by, and for, Indigenous groups in rare ecosystems - and translated to markets using applied chaos theory. 

This provides a simplified framework that protects resilient ecosystems. Central to the methodology is direct payment to indigenous people and local communities, who are the on-the-ground land guardians.

Read this for more information.