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Projects

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.

With sponsorship from KERING Group, 5 mining sites are on course 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:

Site 1 Crique Serpent:

Reforestation Project - Guyana

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.

Reforestation Program – France

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 3 years, ATHYS collaborates with the Office National des Forêts (ONF) to look for financing to reforest 80 hectares of forests 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

CCB (Climate, Community and Biodiversity) – Ivory Coast

Agroforestry and reforestation in Ivory Coast – West Africa

Implementing an intercropping cocoa-agroforestry model on 2500 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)

Reforestation program (ARR) - Argentina

Athys Recovery Services (Athys) proposes ARR programs to rehabilitate and reforest two degraded sites in selected states 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.

Athys and its local partner Sofia are considering the development ARR programs in Argentina’s provinces of Santiago del Estero and Salta. The native forest has widely been depleted during the last decades to expand agriculture and cattle breeding lands. The total area of these two first projects represents around 40 000 hectares which about 50% could be eligible for pure reforestation development and about 50% of assisted natural regeneration.

The reforestation program’s goal is to restore an ecologically functional and biodiverse primary rainforest. This will be achieved by planting as many different native tree species as possible and mixed tree plantations.

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

Estimated ARR VCUs: 17,800,000 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

Projects

Reforestation of mining sites in French Guiana

Site 1 Crique Serpent:

Reforestation Project - Guyana

Reforestation Program – France

SOLICAZ - Our technical partner

Certification & Label services

CCB (Climate, Community and Biodiversity) – Ivory Coast

Reforestation program (ARR) - Argentina

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