Manoa is a Verra REDD+ avoided deforestation project situated in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, on the edges of the Amazon rainforest. The project was started in 2012 and seeks to protect 74,038 hectares of rainforest from being deforested and converted to agriculture and pasture. The area is owned by a large private entity, a Brazilian furniture manufacturer named Triangulo committed to sustainability. Satellite imagery indicates that deforestation has been trending spatially towards the project area for the last several decades. In the ten years since the project has started, it’s been largely surrounded on all sides by deforestation. This speaks greatly to the project’s additionality.<br>The project’s baseline scenario for what likely would have happened if the project didn’t exist is highly conservative. It includes areas further away from the encroaching deforestation than the project, areas that are less accessible than the project, and uses deforestation rates that are likely underestimates. Renoster believes that this has resulted in the project being issued far fewer credits than its true climate impact. To date, the project has been highly successful at forest conservation. With small exception, the only forest cover loss observable inside the project is that which was planned and accounted for by the project. With a proven track record of resisting deforestation, and a habitual underestimation of its climate impact, this project’s credits are both safe and verifiable.