SavimboReviews of savimbo.com

Savimbo is doing incredible things for the Amazon rainforest and our planet.

n March 2023 I met Drea Burbank during the Community of Practice group from Grace Rachmany. As I have been following the carbon credit community of Sylvera, I have a critical eye for businesses claiming their ability to measure sequestered carbon. From Chris Lang of the REDD Monitor I have learned that Sylvera is not capable of evaluating their member organizations as they claim. The Savimbo paradigm of relying on ancient time tested indigenous wisdom for establishing biodiversity credits, or even carbon credit ratings is superior to the superficial extrapolations that the Sylvera community count on.

Great initiative, helping farmers so they can continue to support their lands, families, animals, clean water, and pristine forests.

Trustworthy, and game changing.

Clearly grounded in indigenous wisdom and practice with focus on nature and it’s intrinsic value to all life on this planet. Priorities and values are inherently and immutably regenerative, with constant advocacy to bring about systems change that ensures finance is aligned with those values (not the other way round!) The world needs many more groups and projects like this.

I met Fernando and Lizandro in the Putumayo Amazon jungle near Villagarzon. They told me about the photographic monitoring of biodiversity and how it is working. They have photographed so many jaguars and other species. Later I visited them in their office at Villagarzon where I met a few other young members of the team, analyzing photographs. It is very inspiring to see how commited these people are to talking care of their environment and really protecting wildlife.

Savimbo has all my admiration because its conservation has the unique mechanism that I believed. It works with and for the indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest territory.