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 Cercarbano-approved methodology.

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 credits is from a 76,500 ha collective of >250 Indigenous smallfarmers and 4 Indigenous groups in the Tropical Andean biodiversity hotspot. Observations of indicators species are tracked and pre-validated in iNaturalist for >1 year and all smallfarmers have a 30-year conservation contract for 50% shared revenue from sales.

We have >12 Indigenous groups in 9 countries in our pipeline in either biodiversity hotspots or IUCN-threatened ecosystems and anticipate providing 178M credits to the global conservation market in the next 5 years. We anticipate certification of our biodiversity credits in July 2024.

What is a biodiversity credit?

One hectare of ecosystem protected for one month with full data for its ecological integrity and a rating for ecosystem value (i.e. a video of an apex predator or rare species on a hectare of biodiversity hotspot). 

More information on the biodiversity unit and why it's important for global tracking here. 

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. 

How much biodiversity revenue goes to locals?

We’re glad you asked because this is important to us too. The answer is 50% of biodiversity revenue goes to the originating landowner. For Savimbo’s portion, ⅔ of the Savimbo’s founders are local indigenous leaders, 7% of the company is owned by successful growers, and 7% is owned by staff of which >50% is local experts.

Introduction to the Biodiversity Credit Methodology

The Savimbo Indicator Species Biodiversity Methodology (ISBM) provides a simplified framework that protects resilient ecosystems. Central to the methodology is direct payment to indigenous people and local communities (IPLC), who are the on-the-ground land guardians.

Read this for more information.