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Savimbo was designed by Indigenous leaders to teach conscious business. We help Indigenous Peoples and local communities sell the positive byproducts of healthy forests with no strings attached. A green economy that transacts fairly with the people who do the most for the intact planet.
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Our fair-trade climate products
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Biodiversity credits
Our market-leading certified biodiversity credits are direct from smallfarmers and Indigenous groups. Learn more →
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Biodiversity + Impact credits
Indigenous groups and smallfarmers unfairly excluded from markets. Full monitoring, reporting, and verification. Learn more →
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Tree credits
Plant native jungle trees in the Amazon jungle. Food forests, Indigenous-informed, biozone-friendly & smallfarmer-loved. Learn more →
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Water credits
Buy water credits direct from the Amazon headwaters. Connect, and protect everyone downstream + dragonflies! Learn more →
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Carbon credits
Buy ton-year carbon credits - sold directly from 30-yr contracts for locals to reforest and/or conserve the Amazon jungle. Learn more →
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A gift
Give your friends a sigh of relief about climate with a breath of fresh air from the Amazon jungle! Learn more →
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🌎 package
Subscribe to locally-led action and get monthly biodiversity, carbon, tree, and water credits. Learn more →
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Ecotourism
We’re dedicated to a post-colonialist planet. Sustainable travel that helps communities protect their resources. Learn more →
Our partners
In the press
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Article
Invest ESG did an article on the theory behind our economic structure for working with Indigenous peoples. Learn more →
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Book
You know you made it when you’re in an innovation book! Find out how we leapfrog climate markets. Learn more →
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Article
Wedgetail investment group wrote an article about us and how our ethos leads to conscious business. Learn more →
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Research paper
Wunderal et al. from Oxford preprint on Biodiversity credits covers Savimbo as a developer and emerging market!
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Article
Mongabay did an in-depth dive on biodiversity credit market and covered Savimo’s as an outlier.
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Whitepaper
UN IIED listed Savimbo as one of eleven high-quality biocredit developers launching the biodiversity market.
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Podcast
Finding a cure for civilization: Delving deep into the Roots of Being with visionary and shaman, Drea Burbank.
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Podcast
How do you help 1 billion people in tropical forests? Decide for Impact posed that question to Drea. Check it out!
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Interview
Want to invest in biodiversity? investESG interviewed Drea about paradigms and principles of our economic models!
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Article
What will the biodiversity market look like in 2024? Bloom Labs makes some great predictions - with Savimbo in the lead!
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Article
Carbon Pulse continues to shine the light on Savimbo. Our biodiversity credit launch is making waves and the market is excited!
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Podcast
Frontier Market News interviews Drea: A smarter way to protect the Amazon - Indigenous leaders and biodiversity credits.
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Article
Carbon Pulse broke the news about our biodiversity credit certifying with Cercarbono, and listing on Xpansiv.
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Award
Fernando is a hero! Our co-founder Fernando won the award 5th edition of Héroe Sacha Unidos in the category of #ecotourism! We’re so proud of him!
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News
Savimbo is on national television! Mentioning our sighting of a pair of Bush dogs, a rare species that is threatened with extinction.
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Interview
The Femme Futurists Society interviews Drea about biodiversity credits and the ease of training smallfarmers to gather data.
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Interview
Savimbo, a fair-trade carbon credit platform highlighted by startup savant & TRUiC for sustainable business and entrepreneurial insights.
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News
It’s official: Savimbo’s sighting of the two “Bush dogs” in Villagarzon has gone viral and is being reported on all major media outlets in Colombia!
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Article
European Business Magazine cites Savimbo’s use of blockchain to offer fair-trade ecological credits to global investors.
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Presentation
Discussing ways in which organizations can reduce their carbon footprint and contribute to a sustainable future through the use of carbon credits. Learn more →
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Article
Connor McCormick remarks on the use of Digital Gaia for Sustainability Officers, using Savimbo’s science as an excellent case study.
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News
Savimbo’s cameras have identified two “Bush dogs” (Speothos venaticus), a species that is on the brink of extinction - and it’s making world news!
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Interview
In an interview with Carbon Pulse, Drea debuts Savimbo’s fair trade biodiversity credit pre-sales and remarks on business expansion.
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Podcast
Devin Miller with Inventive Journey interviews Drea for advice on starting a small business and points of view for growth.
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Magazine
Authority Magazine interview on modern consumerism What it is, how we got here, what we can do about it — and what Savimbo is doing in particular.
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Podcast
The Matt Brown Show with… Matt Brown! Long-time technology channel discusses innovation, Savimbo’s market niche, and entrepreneurship. Learn more →
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Interview
Industry Leaders discusses Savimbo’s successes and Drea’s background as it relates to her entrepreneurial spirit and business acumen.
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News
MarketScale interview discussing what consumers need to know about buying climate-conscious products at checkout and why it’s impactful. Learn more →
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Podcast
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants podcast with David McKay. discussing the foundation of Savimbo, and paradigm shifts in the carbon markets. Learn more →
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Awards
Interview on impact, international developent, and female leadership. Drea was judging the fair-trade and fast-growing-consumer-goods category of the GIVE-A awards.
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Podcast
Learning with Lowell technology podcast with host Lowell Thompson. Interview covers psychedelics, innovation, climate, and high-tech. Learn more →
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Book
Book ‘Leapfrog Nation’ interview regarding innovation in the developing world, Savimbo, what really constitudes a novel idea, and how one would develop it. Learn more →
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Technology in the Amazon
Man & Machine Podcast with Drea about emerging technology utilized by Savimbo in the Amazon and how it could change human health. Learn more →
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Article
Built-In article on Savimbo’s use of DAO technology and how member-owned, self-governed collectives may be the key to democratizing the internet. Learn more →
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Interview
David Burrows with JustFood discusses carbon-neutral claims made by food companies. Drea cautions that the science is problematic. Learn more →
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Presentation
Presentation to BitDAO, the world’s largest DAO at the inception of Savimbo. We describe early project design and how fair-trade hacks the market. Learn more →
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News
StartUs evaluated 454 international carbon startups and named Savimbo as #1 for carbon sequestration! We appreciate their recognition!
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Article
Michael Chindoy is an independent Indigenous leader in Colombia. la Nueva Prensa has published his letter, Climate change or capitalist barbarism?
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Article
Carbon Pulse covered Savimbo’s the launch of Savimbo’s Indigenous-led biodiversity methodology to market.
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Article
Google Startups wrote a blog post about how Savimbo uses Google Cloud to scale a services for Indigenous & Local peoples.
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Interview
Robert Lundahl’s amazing interview captures Savimbo’s cofounders interactions on camera. Learn more →
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Interview
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Interview
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Article
Carbon pulse wrote an article about how our biodiversity unit [https://unit.savimbo.com] connects to market strategy for Indigenous peoples. Learn more →
Our programs
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Ecotourism
Our post-colonialist ecotourism program is designed to trade positive experiences using shared aims and equal footing.
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Agrobiodiversity
Our agrobiodiversity program extends beyond sales and into food security, restoration, and economic drivers of reforestation.
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Biodiversity
Our market-leading biodiversity credits were designed to provide immediate economic relief to locals guarding primary forest.
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Trees
Our reforestation program is designed to restore native Amazon food forests while protecting and extending local livelihoods.
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Carbon
Our carbon credit program was designed to be ethical, sustainable, and scientifically robust for Indigenous peoples and local communities.
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Water
Our water program was designed to harness local motivators and connectors for conservation and tie it to market drivers.
We can fix the Amazon
Want to know our Why? Learn more about our team and what motivates us.
Why fair-trade economics are better at stopping deforestation.
Innovation has made it possible to scale and distribute climate services from locals.
How we turn planetary ecology into climate products anyone can buy.
How we work with local conservation experts to get results.
We love Nature. Our aim is to employ 1 billion people in 10 years to save a planet. Because we can.
Biodiversity credits
Savimbo values
TRUST
We believe the best technology enables real-world meaning and satisfaction. Now.
RESPECT
Our project spans the globe and harmoniously connects extreme diversity via respect.
CONSCIOUSNESS
We invest in the conscious growth of people, plants, communities. Life grows.
ABUNDANCE
We live on a rock, powered by a supernova, and plants convert that energy for free. Win-win.
NOW
We believe trust is earned, by transparently making and keeping commitments.
Savimbo blog
Independent Indigenous leaders on climate conferences without adequate Indigenous Peoples representation
Why COP28 is the ultimate expression of misunderstanding climate change
What you need to know before doing anything in biodiversity markets
Indigenous Peoples have become a ‘hot topic’ in the business, climate, and conservation communities. But to what end?
The voice of the Indigenous Peoples of the world on the planetary environmental emergency.
The Amazon has biodiversity. We should preserve it. How? Well, we’re glad you asked.
We need to innovate in climate. Indigenous groups have solutions, but we’ve been ignoring them. NOW is the time to change methods.
We must think at a planetary scale, to solve planet-wide problems. Why we store carbon in the Amazon.
Fernando Lezama, Savimbo’s co-founder tells the story of his path traditional doctor and his vision for co-existence with the rainforest.
Jhony López, Savimbo’s co-founder tells the story of the regional struggle to protect the Amazon rainforest.
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“The money is going where it's supposed to go.”
—Jhony Lopez, Savimbo project after one year.
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“They said, 'This is how we always have done it.' And I said, 'That's never an answer for why you do something.”
—Douglas Gayeton, The Lexicon Ecological Benefits Framework List Item
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“Despite only stewarding 22% of the world’s land, Indigenous territories protect 80% of the planet’s biodiversity. These lands are also estimated to contain 36% of the world’s remaining intact forests.”
—Fitri Arianti, Rainforest Action Network using World Bank data
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“We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.”
—David Foreman
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“Scientists were startled in 1980 by the discovery of a tremendous diversity of insects in tropical forests. In one study of just 19 trees in Panama, 80% of the 1,200 beetle species discovered were previously unknown to science... Surprisingly, scientists have a better understanding of how many stars there are in the galaxy than how many species there are on Earth.”
—World Resources Institute
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“The rapid loss of species we are seeing today is estimated by experts to be between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate.”
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“Drug discovery from wild species has always been, and will continue to be one of the most critical for most if not all aspects of health care, disease prevention, and wellness.”
—Neergheen-Bhujun et al., Journal of Global Health
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“The Siekopai will defend their forests with their lives because, without their forests, they cannot be Siekopai. We need to act."
—Mike McColms, PhD, Ethnographer