Blue-carbon milestone: 1,000 hectares of mangrove replanted along the Johor Strait
A two-year coastal programme financed through the platform has locked away an estimated 48,000 tonnes of CO₂ and brought back crucial shoreline habitat.
A coastal restoration effort bankrolled by more than 4,100 Carvanta buyers has passed 1,000 hectares of replanted mangrove along the Johor Strait, making it one of the region's largest community-led blue-carbon projects.
Independent monitoring puts the restored forest on course to sequester 48,000 tonnes of CO₂ over its first decade, while shielding 27 kilometres of shoreline from erosion and drawing back more than 60 bird and fish species recorded in the latest survey.
The programme has disbursed S$1.4 million to local planting cooperatives, with each payment tied to satellite-verified survival rates rather than the number of trees put in the ground. Survival after the first 18 months is running at 84%, above the project's 80% threshold.
Blue carbon remains one of the hardest categories to verify, because mangrove soils store carbon below the waterline and are easily disturbed. The project publishes annual soil-core readings and a permanence assessment alongside its credit issuance.
A second phase covering a further 600 hectares is under review, with planting expected to begin after the monsoon season.