Programs - ATHYS RECOVERY SERVICES

Projects

ReGen Boundou Reforestation Project (28,000 hect)

In exclusive partnership with the CORENA Natural Reserve Park, Athys initiates a large Biodiversity Restoration and Reforestation project aiming to restore 28,000 hectares in the 120,000 hectares park.

Created in 2009, the Boundou Community Nature Reserve is a model of community-based governance in Senegal. It shelters unique biodiversity and vast forest landscapes but is now facing increasing pressures from land degradation and the impacts of climate change, which threaten the resilience of its ecosystems.

Athys brings his expertise in Nature-based Program Design and Implementation combining ecological restoration, community development, and sustainable economic opportunities.

This project will be certified under Verra and CCB (Climate, Community and Biodiversity) standard.

Key figures :

• 28,000 hectares Restoration through reforestation and assisted natural regeneration

• Conservation: 120,000 hectares through active ecosystem protection

• 200 Jobs creation

• Carbon Sequestration: 7M tCO2

Reforestation of mining sites in French Guiana

ATHYS leads a reforestation program for mined-out gold mines in French Guiana with technical support from Solicaz, and ONF (Office National des Forêts) supervision.

A few selected gold mining operations are partnering with the project.

Since 2018, the program has benefited from KERING Group’s sponsorship, during which 5 mining sites are on track to being 100% reforested.

ATHYS, co-founder of the Mina-Verde initiative, have drafted the ESG policy and are leading the process to certifying one of these gold mines by the Responsible Jewellery Council. It’s become the third RJC-certified gold mine in the world.

ATHYS reforestation projects aims to the Biodiversity restoration, including threatened species:

Programme biodiversité KERING

Site 1 Crique Serpent:

Guyana - Reforestation Project

ATHYS applied for a 7000 ha Reforestation of mined-out bauxite lands.
South-Pole made a summary of the Emission Reduction (ER) estimations performed for the afforestation project.

The Project is intended to be VCS (Verified Carbon Standard – Verra) and CCB (Climate, Community and Biodiversity) certified.

Athys through Solicaz has signed a LOI with Lamor group, an international leader in Remediation and Restoration solutions.

France - Reforestation Program

Magland-Flaine (Mont-Blanc Valley)

SOMFY Group, worldwide leader in Connected Home Solution, assigns ATHYS’ to assist its Foundation to incorporate the reforestation project into its local social programme.

For the last 4 years, ATHYS collaborates through Athlètes Responsables Team association with the Office National des Forêts (ONF) ; the Centre National de la Propriété Forestière (CNPF) to reforest 80 hectares that have been devasted by a windstorm in the Mont-Blanc Valley.

Key issues for the community:

restoring a high quality of wood for construction source
mitigating the landscape scares in a highly touristic area
building back the carbon pits necessary to sequester the emission from the heavy road traffic
reinforcing the water natural reservoirs
selecting tree species able to adapt to climate change

SOLICAZ - Our technical partner

In response to deforestation and loss of soil fertility, Solicaz proposes revegetation services to restore the global biodiversity of degraded areas, particularly through its innovate ecotechnology to enhance soil live, associating endogenous nitrogen-fixing plants with a mix of engineered organic bio-stimulants.

Degraded sites reforestation programs

Solicaz works on Agoforesty programs to enhance yields (up to 100%) without nitrogen fertilizers, by rehabiliting soil fertility

Energy biomass programs for Power Producers High & Steady Yields + Soils Fertilization

Afforestation to fight Climate change and desertification process

Certification & Label services

ATHYS offers its expertise in program implementation and certification & label processes, including audit guidance to:

Afforestation, reforestation and regeneration program implementation and certification as per international carbon standards.

Athys also supports nature-based preservation programs based on recognised Redd+ standards (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradations)”

Mining certifications and climate finance labels

Ivory Coast - CCB (Climate, Community and Biodiversity)

Agroforestry and reforestation in Ivory Coast – West Africa

Implementing an intercropping cocoa-agroforestry model on 4000 ha degraded land

Improve the fertility of the soils up to 30%
Increase the livelihoods of the farmers : 20%
Constitute farmers’ retirement income
Provide independent cash-income to women
Reduces respiratory diseases due to firewood
Mitigate climate change impact (1 M eCO2t sequested)

Argentina - Reforestation program (ARR)

Athys Recovery Services (Athys) proposes ARR programs to rehabilitate and reforest degraded sites in two provinces of Argentina.

The objective is to regenerate primary forest, restore biodiversity on a permanent basis, to take part in the combat against climate change and to contribute to local communities’ livelihoods.

The first program, located in the Santiago del Estero province, will restore 3,000 hectares of degraded land that was deforested for agricultural activities and commercial cattle-breeding.

Athys and Sofia have acquired the degraded land and will implement a program focused on soil rehabilitation, a complete reforestation of native species, and the comprehensive restoration and monitoring of biodiversity.

Developed in full compliance with the highest environmental and social standards, the program will be certified under Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) and the Climate, Community & Biodiversity (CCB) standards.

This initiative is projected to sequester more than 2.5 million tCO2e over 30 years.

The project is supported and financed by a leading European impact asset management and sustainable investment group.

The second program is on the final stage of acquisition of a cattle farm, located in the Province of Corrientes.

The reforestation program’s goal is to restore an ecologically functional and biodiverse primary rainforest and to make the bridge between Ibera and Mburucuya National Parks. This will be achieved by planting as many different native tree species after a scientific study and process of the soil rehabilitation and biodiversity assessment.

The implementation of the project will generate carbon credits: Verified Carbon Units (VCUs) certified by Verified Carbon Standard.

Estimated ARR VCUs: 4,700,000 VCUs

Communities will benefit through direct and indirect employment opportunities, training and scholarship, mitigation of natural disaster, increase of biodiversity for the benefit of new agroforestry, tourism and research projects, improvement of environmental quality and well-being, and promotion of social cohesion around a regional project. Programs environmental and social co-benefits are considered to be also certified by the Climate Community and Biodiversity certification standard.

These two projects are located in the “El Gran Chaco Americano” which is the second larger forested area of the continent, after the Amazonia that suffered from high deforestation during the last decades.

The Feasibility Study has been conducted by Ecological Carbon Offset Partners LLC (EP Carbon) from

Berkeley, California. It is available on demand to paul@athys.org

Suriname - Project Prospecting

ATHYS works on identifying degraded lands (mined-out and abandoned deforested for cattle use) in Suriname in the need for the nation to compensate the emerging oil and gas industry emissions.

Projects

ReGen Boundou Reforestation Project (28,000 hect)

Reforestation of mining sites in French Guiana

Site 1 Crique Serpent:

Guyana - Reforestation Project

France - Reforestation Program

SOLICAZ - Our technical partner

Certification & Label services

Ivory Coast - CCB (Climate, Community and Biodiversity)

Argentina - Reforestation program (ARR)

Suriname - Project Prospecting

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