Daemeter is working with Green Consulting (GreenCon) based in Monrovia, Liberia to conduct HCV full assessment of a planned palm oil development owned by Golden Veroleum Liberia Ltd, a member of the RSPO. The assessment area is located in Sinoe County in the southeast of Liberia, covering c 38,000 ha, with dominant land cover including open land, active and fallow farms, mixed agroforestry, and native forest in various condition classes. The HCV assessment is being carried out before development commences, in accordance with RSPO requirements, as well as GVL's own voluntary Forest Conservation Policy to protect HCVs and High Carbon Stock (HCS) areas. The latter are being mapped by Greenpeace and The Forest Trust (TFT), and will be combined with HCV findings to produce the integrated conservation management plan for the plantation. 

 

Daemeter in partnership with GreenCon provide direct technical, advisory and capacity building support throughout the planning, field work, interpretation, mapping, decision making, consultation and reporting stages. GreenCon is leading mobilization of field survey specialists, data analysis, HCV mapping and co-writing the report. Through desk top and field-based work, Daemeter is helping to ensure global best practice in HCV assessment is applied throughout the process, and co-writing the assessment report, using an interactive reporting template developed by Daemeter. Finally, as part of the work, Daemeter is prioritizing coordination with TFT on the integration of HCS maps into the HCV assessment process to ensure both assessment tools feed into a unified conservation plan.