Field Verification of Tumring REDD+ Project
The PMU contracted S&A Carbon as an independent project verifier for the 1st monitoring period (2015-2019). S&A conducted its verification process during the second week of December 2019 under the supervision of Dr. Pablo Reed. The specific objective of this verification process was to verify information provided in the [...]
Tumring REDD+ Project Prepared for Verification
From October to December 2019, the Project Management Unit (PMU) conducted two activities to prepare for the verification of the Tumring REDD+ Project. First, a pre-testing project verification was successfully conducted with the support from Dr. Simon Bird from Wildlife Works Carbon (WWC), who helped to strengthen PMU’s Standard [...]
Contributions of resin tapping to the livelihoods of communities in O Daskor Community Forest area, Kampong Thom province
In Cambodia, there are two main species of resin trees. They are Dipterocapus intricatus and Dipterocapus alatus. The Dipterocapus intricatus trees come from the lineage of the deciduous dipterocarp species and can grow to the height of up to 30 meters and 120 cm in diameter. The Dipterocapus alatus [...]
PMU facilitated the meetings for delegates from Republic of Korea
In August 2019, the PMU members facilitated the meetings of Dr. Dong Ho Lee of the National Institute of Forest Science (NiFoS), Ms. Nara Lee and Mr. Lim Seok Seung, KFS team members as they conducted wide-rage stakeholder meetings and discussions on the potential joint research toward scaling up [...]
Communication materials for Tumring REDD+ Project
The PMU has been updating its website regularly (www.tumringredd.org) to share and disseminate the project’s results among stakeholders. The PMU reprinted 1 500 copies of posters on benefits of REDD+ project and 500 copies of Tumring REDD+ booklets to raise awareness among targeted communities in the project area. Each [...]
Tumring REDD+ Project increased stakeholder participation
In June 2019, the project management unit (PMU) members visited the project site of the 14 CFs located in the project area. The purpose of their visit was to meet with the 14 CF groups’ respective management committees to follow up on implementation of the project activities, patrolling issues, [...]