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CARBON PROJECT
Vanga Blue Forest
Plan Vivo · PV-VANGA · Kenya
Credits issued
23,661
tonnes CO₂-equivalent
Credits retired
0
0% of issued
Remaining
0
issued and not yet retired
Status
Active
Registered (PV Climate)
About this project
Community-owned mangrove project in Vanga Bay, about 110 km from Mombasa. The mangroves of Vanga, Jimbo, Kiwegu, Majoreni and Sii Island cover 4,428 ha; 460 ha are set aside for the project (Sii Island about 200 ha and the mainland about 250 ha). 974 households take part. Credits are Plan Vivo Certificates (PVCs): 23,661 issued to date.
The record
- Project ID
- PV-VANGA
- Registry
- Plan Vivo
- Type
- Mangrove conservation and restoration (afforestation/reforestation and avoided deforestation) · Forestry & Land Use
- Removal or reduction
- Removal + reduction
- Methodology
- VM0033 (tidal wetland and seagrass restoration); PV Climate v4
- Developer
- Association for Coastal Ecosystem Services (ACES) for the VAJIKI Community Forest Association · 1 project
- Country
- Kenya, Kwale County · Vanga, Jimbo, Kiwegu, Majoreni and Sii Island (Vanga Bay)
- First vintage
- 2020
- Data from
- Plan Vivo Foundation project page and Project Design Document (2019)
Community involvement
community-owned (Vanga, Jimbo and Kiwegu Community Forest Association, VAJIKI)974 participating householdscommunities of Vanga, Jimbo, Kiwegu and Majoreni
Carbon credits are owned by the community; the project is coordinated by ACES.
Basis: Plan Vivo project page and Project Design Document. This lists who the project describes working with; it is not a check of benefit-sharing.
Status and timeline
- Registry status
- Registered (PV Climate) (Active)
- First credits (vintage)
- 2020
- Credits issued
- 23,661 (retired 0)
Location
Named place A named place from the project title or documents, found on OpenStreetMap and hand-checked
- Coordinates
- -4.6590, 39.2180
- Source
- OpenStreetMap place name Vanga (named in the Project Design Document)
- Note
- Point at Vanga town; the project area extends over the Vanga Bay mangroves including Sii Island (-4.662, 39.277)
Credit totals and status are as compiled in the Berkeley Voluntary Registry Offsets Database v2026-08 (CC BY 4.0) and change as the registries update. Please check the registry record before you quote a figure.