Our Collaborators
We have multiple contacts and existing partners throughout the province whom we have developed relationships with over the last 42 years operating under Zanzibar Holdings Ltd. Our process for identifying projects, partners, and collaborators is built upon these relationships and the effort we make to maintain them.
Integral to our project development is the integration of First Nations partners and collaborators, and the inclusion of traditional ecological knowledge and land stewardship priorities.
We also work closely with NGOs, private enterprise, and governments at the federal and provincial level. Through these relationships, CCS has connected these different groups to facilitate collaboration and funding opportunities for reforestation projects.
Some Historic Projects we have worked on with our collaborators include:
Local Collaborators
Cariboo Carbon Solutions and Zanzibar Holdings have a successful history of partnering with First Nations, fostering capacity building and business development with Indigenous communities throughout British Columbia.
Our expertise in wildfire reforestation in dry forest ecosystems, wildfire risk reduction through fuel break planning, and riparian habitat restoration puts CCS in a unique position to link projects to areas most drastically impacted by a changing climate.
CCS and Zanzibar have developed ongoing relationships with several First Nations Bands over the years through Joint Venture Partnerships, We are focused on the development of long-term projects that contribute to greater opportunities for capacity building for our partners through sustained mentorship and training.
We have worked with First Nations partners all across the southern half of the province including the Cariboo, Thompson-Okanagan, Kootenays, South Coast, and West Coast.
Federal and Provincial Collaborators
Cariboo Carbon Solutions has worked collaboratively with the Federal and Provincial governments Governments through funding streams such as the 2 Billion Tree Program, Forest Investment and Reporting Branch (FIRB), and Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI).
Through funding streams such as the 2 Billion Tree Project (2BT) from Natural Resources Canada, riparian restoration from the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MOTI), the Forest Carbon Initiative (FCI) from Forest Enhancement Society of BC (FESBC) and the Forest Investment and Reporting Branch (FIRB), Forest Investment Project (FIP) from the Forest Investment and Reporting Branch (FIRB).
CCS has helped to facilitate projects that contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and bolster biodiversity and habitat restoration in highly sensitive areas affected by climate disasters such as wildfire and flooding events.
NGO and Private Collaborators
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private enterprise collaborators play a strong role in helping fund our climate change efforts.
Apart of the funding for our projects and long-term planting work comes from our NGO and private partners. Over the last 3 years we have received and fulfilled NGO funding contracts for the planting of over 10.5 million trees in diverse projects throughout British Columbia.
We are fortunate have partnered with a variety of non-governmental organizations and for profit organizations such as:
One Tree Planted
CCS has coordinated the planting on over 10 million trees with One Tree Planted funding from 2019-2023.
Tree Canada
CCS has coordinated the planting on over 200,000 trees with Tree Canada funding from 2019-2023.
CCS has coordinated the planting on over 530,000 trees with Arbor Day funding from 2019-2023.
Veritree
CCS has coordinated the planting on 1,010,000 trees with Veritree funding from 2019-2023.
Looking to plant trees? Contact us at info@cariboocarbon.ca for opportunities to fund upcoming planting projects.
Videos our clients have made about our projects:
