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Paskaia — Miskito Community Fire Management and Carbon Restoration, La Mosquitia (Honduras)

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Plan Vivo-certified community carbon project in La Mosquitia—Honduras's last large primeval forest. Miskito fire brigades protect 1,600+ ha of pine savanna; ~400 ha of forest recovering by 2022; 319 families earn 61% of carbon-credit revenue. Credits vintage 2023–2024.

1,600+ ha

Pine savanna protected

~400 ha by 2022

Forest recovering

319

Families benefiting

Paskaia — Miskito Community Fire Management and Carbon Restoration, La Mosquitia (Honduras)

Details

Maturity: Pilot
Promoter: Paskaia / Miskito Indigenous Communities
Period: 2018–present
Keywords: indigenous, community, fire-management, carbon, Plan-Vivo, agroforestry

Context

Paskaia is a Plan Vivo–certified community carbon project in La Mosquitia, Honduras, where Miskito fire brigades manage pine savanna and restore forest, with credit vintages 2023–2024.

Results

Fire brigades protect more than 1,600 ha of pine savanna, with about 400 ha of forest recovering by 2022, and 319 families earning 61% of carbon-credit revenue.

Implementation

Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.

Data sources

Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.

C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-22
Paskaia / Miskito Indigenous Communities — accessed 2026-06-22
Paskaia Official Site — accessed 2026-06-22
Plan Vivo Project Profile – Paskaia Mosquitia Honduras — accessed 2026-06-22
Klimate Project Profile — accessed 2026-06-22
ZeroMission Project Profile (Sweden) — accessed 2026-06-22

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Quality score: 67/100

How is this calculated?

Evidence: Observational / pre–post

Top 8% in this catalogue (335 scored practices)

Scores cluster high, so position within the catalogue is often more telling than the number alone.

Evaluation

Evaluated by C-NAPSE

Score profile — the dimensions behind the score — how it's computed

Carbon — sequestration / storage, evidenced2/3

Plan Vivo-certified credits with 2023–2024 vintage confirmed; ~400 ha of recovering forest documented by 2022, but total verified tCO2e volume not publicly disclosed.

Biodiversity — conservation / improvement, evidenced2/3

Fire suppression and agroforestry in La Mosquitia protect one of Central America's most important biodiversity corridors, but species-level monitoring outcomes have not been publicly reported.

Water & soil — retention, infiltration, erosion control1/3

Vegetation restoration in La Mosquitia headwaters indirectly benefits downstream watersheds, but water and soil outcomes are not a primary project objective or formally monitored.

Fire resilience — risk reduction, evidenced3/3

Community fire brigades form the core operational intervention, directly reducing wildfire frequency in a chronically fire-prone pine savanna, evidenced by observed forest recovery across 400 ha.

Governance, certification & transferability2/3

Plan Vivo third-party certification and formal Miskito community co-design with 61% revenue-sharing are strong equity features; however, verified credit volumes and annual audit results are not publicly available.

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Evidoria. Paskaia — Miskito Community Fire Management and Carbon Restoration, La Mosquitia (Honduras). Persistent ID: 856122e7-0645-43e9-83db-62324d30bbb1.

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