Pozo del Tumé Carbon Sequestration Project 

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Executive Summary

Pozo del Tume Carbon Sequestration Project ("PT") is a forest protection and sustainable management project located in the Anta Department in the Salta Province of Argentina. The project is an initiative to sequester 2 million metric tons equivalent of CO2 emissions on a 32,258-hectare sustainable forest. The land is owned and managed by Estancias El Algarrobo, S.A. and Estancias San Bruno, S.A. The project will be submitted for certification under the United States Initiative on Joint Implementation (USIJI).

The project has three Greenhouse Gas (GHG) mitigation components: 
 

• Preservation of land, prevention and mitigation of GHG emissions 

• Logging impact reduction 

• Reforestation 

PT will perform an assessment utilizing information from existing projects, data from various Universities of Argentina, and satellite imagery. The assessment would be performed with site visits to interview locals and perform sampling. PT will utilize recommended sustainable forestry management techniques and resource integrated management practices for the project. PT has identified areas for improvement for carbon sequestration benefits such as improved logging practices, conservation of pasture to forestry, and length rotation cycle. 

The goal of the project is to establish a management system of the different areas of the Pozo del Tume lands to allow for sustainable use of native vegetation resources, both forests, pasturelands, and wild fauna. The technical approach is based on the sustainable management of natural resources and a continuous development of knowledge by means of experimentation. 

Forestry

To establish systems that, while ensuring tree regeneration, also will ensure that biodiversity and wild fauna be kept intact.

Cattle-breeding

To establish a grazing system to recover productivity of the natural pastureland, optimizing production per area unit; in a compatible framework with adequate regeneration of forestal species affected by twig trimming, and with wild fauna.

Fencing for Forest Protection

Experience in the region and research carried out at the Anta Department, clearly show that in order to regenerate the Chaco forest, a grazing system that eliminates the negative impacts of overgrazing on new buds is needed. Consequently, the only alternative in order to ensure regeneration of timber species of higher value, while fodder resources are recovered, it is necessary to establish infrastructure to eliminate the effects of cattle on areas under forestal use. Therefore, the external perimeter of the land has to be fenced and internal fencing is also needed to protect the forest.