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P/COURIER
Tue, 16 Feb 2010
PORT MORESBY, PNG ---- A full scientific team from Australia, supported by hundreds of locals, will travel to the heart of the Kamula Doso forest in the Gulf Province this week.
They will start scientific and technical field work required to map the carbon trading project that is in the last weeks of international verification.
The team spent two weeks in the country, mapping out the work that needs to be done and consulting the local authorities and landowners on how best to achieve the desired outcome.
“We want the knowledge and skills required to manage and complete this project transferred to the local villagers so that they can maintain their forests in years to come.
“For the project to work, we have to have data collected every month and be audited annually for the continued issue of carbon credits. From what we have seen so far, everyone is very enthusiastic to contribute and learn as much as they can. We look forward to a great success,” Nupan (PNG) Trading Corporation, which is leading the scientific team said.
Nupan chief executive officer Kirk Roberts said the scientific and technical fieldwork was expected to take a week and it is the last stage required for the international validation and verification of the Kamula Doso carbon trading project, the first of its type in the world.
He said the project was being verified and validated as an improved forest management project (IFM), under the strict Voluntary Carbon Standards (VCS) protocols.
Mr Roberts said this would produce the highest quality of forest credit and promote the development of environmental services and social projects that would include education, health, transport, and communication projects throughout the area.
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