Chief Executive Officer at Everland llc

Everland exists to help people prosper from conserving their forests and wildlife, resulting in climate change mitigation for the benefit of all. We mobilize transformative investments into forest communities who are on the frontlines stopping deforestation, halting climate change, and safeguarding biodiversity, in order to deliver conservation outcomes at scale.

Everland

Executive Chairman

Everland brings together forest communities and corporations in a common cause to protect some of the world’s most important and vulnerable forests.

We exclusively represent a curated portfolio of high-impact, forest conservation projects (REDD+)  across the globe, that are focused on stopping deforestation.

REDD+ is a UN envisioned climate change mitigation strategy that is the fastest, most effective and lowest cost initiative that can be done right now to combat climate change.

Our projects are community based where the local landowners and communities are directly involved in protecting their forest, for their own benefit.

Chief Executive Officer

Wildlife Works is the world's leading REDD (reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation) project development and management company with a unique approach to applying innovative market based solutions to the conservation of biodiversity. 

The company established a successful model that uses the emerging marketplace for REDD carbon offsets as a sustainable and scalable funding mechanism for biodiverse forest protection and to help local landowners in the developing world monetize their forest and biodiversity assets whether they are governments, communities, ownership groups or private individuals.

Wildlife Works flagship “Kasigau Corridor REDD project” protects over 500,000 acres of forest and brings the benefits of direct carbon financing to Kenyan communities while also securing the entire wildlife migration corridor between Tsavo East and Tsavo West National Parks. 

The company is developing of a portfolio of additional REDD projects in Africa with an aim to; protect 5 million hectares of native forest that will mitigate 25 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually and create thousands of sustainable jobs for rural Africans.

Wildlife Works delivered the world's first validated, verified and issued VCS REDD carbon credits on February 7, 2011.  This has been described in the carbon market trade press as a "watershed event".  

The Kasigau Corridor REDD project was awarded the additional distinction of Gold level status by CCBA for exceptional biodiversity and climate benefits. 

The project area is home to a fantastic diversity of over 50 species of large mammals, more than 20 species of bats and over 300 species of birds and important populations of IUCN Red List species such as Grevy’s Zebra, Cheetah, Lion, African Wild Dog as well as over 2000 African elephants seasonally.

Gerald Prolman