Republic of Congo
Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park
The HIFOR Congo Project is in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park, which covers 423,000 hectares of predominantly high integrity tropical forest in northern Republic of Congo.
We know nature’s ability to mitigate climate change and conserve biodiversity are intertwined. HIFOR is an innovative, scalable financial mechanism rooted in the underlying value of nature. Investing in it mitigates climate change, prevents biodiversity loss, and delivers socioeconomic benefits.
The HIFOR unit represents one hectare of healthy, high integrity tropical forest actively conserved within a large landscape for a decade. These units deliver far-reaching benefits, including the ongoing removal of CO2, regulation of regional rainfall, local and regional cooling, and protection of high levels of biodiversity.
The HIFOR Initiative has two active pilot sites in a growing portfolio. The first is in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park in the Republic of Congo. The second is in the Mamirauá and Amanã Sustainable Development Reserves in Amazonas, Brazil. Combined, these areas cover 4 million hectares of high integrity tropical forest, foster biodiversity, and sequester about 53 million tons of CO2 per decade.